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25-955 Delmart Ejm Vreeland, III v. Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. Colorado 2026-02-11 Pending constitutional-review due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdictional-defect merits-review procedural-bar Whether a State violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when it limits a defendant's ability to raise meritorious claims and syste…
25-821 Michael Dewayne Lairy v. United States Seventh Circuit 2026-01-12 Pending actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split habeas-corpus procedural-bar sentencing-enhancement Whether an individual who did not commit the qualifying predicate offenses required to trigger the Armed Career Criminal Act's 15-year mandatory minim…
25A775 Cosea Bell v. Louisiana Louisiana 2026-01-05 Application collateral-review habeas-corpus post-conviction procedural-bar state-court successive-application Whether a state court's procedural bar against successive post-conviction applications violates a criminal defendant's constitutional right to meaning…
25-6357 Frank A. Walls v. Florida, et al. Florida 2025-12-15 Denied IFP atkins-rule constitutional-protection death-penalty hall-v-florida intellectual-disability procedural-bar Whether Florida's partial retroactive treatment of Hall v. Florida denies intellectually disabled people the protections of Atkins and whether procedu…
25-5818 Clyde Wendell Smith v. Mississippi Mississippi 2025-10-07 Denied IFP conflict-of-interest effective-assistance-counsel postconviction-relief procedural-bar simultaneous-representation state-court-jurisdiction Whether the Mississippi Supreme Court's application of a new procedural rule to a pending postconviction motion constitutes an adequate state ground b…
25-5749 Victor Saldano v. Texas Texas 2025-09-29 Pending IFP atkins-claim due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability procedural-bar state-court-review Does the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals' novel procedural interpretation preclude federal review of an Atkins claim where experts unanimously agree o…
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 a claim in a prior app…
25-5397 Willie Roy Jenkins v. Texas Texas 2025-08-19 Denied IFP capital-murder due-process false-evidence fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus procedural-bar Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals improperly applied a novel procedural bar to deny a habeas corpus petition alleging false testimony in a c…
25-5085 Donald Perry v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2025-07-11 Denied IFP actual-innocence death-penalty florida-supreme-court habeas-corpus procedural-bar trial-court-jurisdiction Whether the Supreme Court of Florida can procedurally bar a habeas corpus petition based on actual innocence claims without relying on procedural rule…
25A30 Humberto Andres Maldonado v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice Fifth Circuit 2025-07-08 Application certificate-of-appealability federal-district-court habeas-corpus procedural-bar statute-of-limitations sua-sponte Whether a federal district court's sua sponte denial of a certificate of appealability based on the statute of limitations constitutes an abuse of dis…
24-7427 Phillip White v. Mark Agbaosi, Warden Georgia 2025-06-16 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-violations due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-bar Whether Georgia's Habeas Corpus Act violates constitutional protections when procedural bars prevent meaningful review of a potentially wrongful convi…
24A1167 Richard Rynn, et al. v. UHS of Phoenix, LLC, et al. Arizona 2025-05-30 Application constitutional-violation due-process fraud-on-court judicial-review procedural-bar rule-60(b) Whether a state court's procedural bar to Rule 60(b) motions alleging fraud on the court violates constitutional due process principles
24-7295 Riley Dyson Biro v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2025-05-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court habeas-corpus procedural-bar state-court-rule Did the Court of Appeals err by denying a certificate of appealability when the district court's findings were debatable and multiple constitutional r…
24-7114 Daniel Flint v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 circuit-split coram-nobis custody-status procedural-bar statutory-remedy Whether the writ of error coram nobis is procedurally barred if a petitioner is 'in custody' or could have-but did not-raise the same claim in a timel…
24-6504 Danmond Jonathan Slack v. Gregory Sampson, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-circuit federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-bar Whether the District Court improperly denied Petitioner's federal habeas corpus claims and violated due process rights by failing to conduct a substan…
24-500 Darrin S. Rick v. Jodi Harpstead, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Human Services Eighth Circuit 2024-11-01 Denied Response Waived actual-innocence civil-commitment habeas-corpus indefinite-confinement miscarriage-of-justice procedural-bar Whether the actual innocence exception which allows federal courts to consider a habeas corpus petition otherwise precluded by a procedural bar should…
24-5753 Robert Leslie Roberson III v. Texas Texas 2024-10-15 Denied IFP actual-innocence capital-punishment due-process habeas-corpus procedural-bar scientific-evidence Whether the TCCA's unexplained application of a procedural bar violates the federal due process clause when a capital state habeas applicant asserts a…
24-5743 Rafael Ernesto Gabriel v. California California 2024-10-10 Denied IFP constitutional-rights ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining procedural-bar sixth-amendment unauthorized-sentence Whether the Sixth Amendment requires advisement of an unauthorized sentence during plea negotiations and whether procedural bars should be precluded f…
24-5476 In Re William Harold Wright, Jr. 2024-09-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-claim criminal-procedure habeas-corpus motion-to-vacate procedural-bar sentence-correction Whether the court erred in dismissing petitioner's amended motion to vacate, set aside, or correct sentence based on a procedural bar
24-5458 Derrick Courchaine v. California California 2024-09-04 Denied IFP constitutional-rights ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining procedural-bar sixth-amendment unauthorized-sentence Whether the Sixth Amendment requires advisement of an unauthorized sentence during plea negotiations and whether procedural bars should be precluded f…
24-5373 Raymond Rodriguez v. California California 2024-08-22 Denied IFP constitutional-rights ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining procedural-bar sixth-amendment unauthorized-sentence Whether the Sixth Amendment requires advisement of an unauthorized sentence during plea negotiations and whether procedural bars should be precluded f…
24A158 James A. Allen v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2024-08-09 Presumed Complete habeas-corpus legal-access prisoner-rights pro-se procedural-bar time-extension Whether a pro se prisoner's limited access to legal resources and mental health challenges constitute good cause for an extension of time to file a wr…
23-7567 Michael David Carruth v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-28 Denied IFP alabama appellate-counsel constitutional-right criminal-procedure death-penalty exhaustion ineffective-assistance procedural-bar right-to-counsel state-procedure writ-of-certiorari Whether a defendant-appellant has a right to counsel through the filing of a petition for a writ of certiorari
23-6439 Jennifer Lynn Mothershead v. Deborah Jo Wofford, Superintendent, Washington Corrections Center for Women Ninth Circuit 2024-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 appellate-review comity habeas-corpus merits-determination procedural-bar state-court-ruling Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision violates Harris v. Reed, 489 U.S. 255 (1989) and the bedrock habeas corpus principle of comity
23-5836 Siddhanth Sharma v. Eddie M. Buffaloe, Jr., Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim constitutional-rights factual-innocence legal-innocence mcquiggin-v-perkins procedural-bar procedural-default sandstrom-claim slack-v-mcdaniel Does the claim of Factual Innocence qualify as a debatable claim for the denial of a Constitutional Right
23-5695 Stephen Michael Michuda v. Minnesota Minnesota 2023-10-03 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel indigent-defendants indigent-rights ineffective-assistance procedural-bar public-defender public-defenders time-bar Is it unconstitutional for the State of Minnesota to block all avenues for indigent defendants against public defenders?
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
23-5370 Charles Alan Dyer v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-08-16 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights due-process legal-research lewis-v-casey post-conviction-appeal pro-se-prisoner procedural-bar procedural-bars Whether a state can place procedural bars on a pro se prisoner's initial post-conviction appeal after denying the prisoner access to legal research fa…
22-7376 Delila Pacheco v. Aboutanaa El Habti, Warden Tenth Circuit 2023-04-26 Denied IFP actual-innocence aedpa circuit-split federal-power federal-review habeas habeas-corpus procedural-bar procedural-bars subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the actual-innocence gateway applies only where a petitioner can prove that she is 'morall[ly]' or 'completely' innocent of any crime, or whet…
22-7358 In Re Ronnie Dante Thomas 2023-04-24 Denied IFP collateral-challenge due-process habeas-corpus juvenile-adjudication procedural-bar sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Is the Sixth Circuit's application of 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(3)'s procedural bar to a collateral challenge to a prior juvenile adjudication that was used…
22-7031 David Andrew Diehl v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-03-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure federal-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure gonzales-v-crosby habeas-corpus merits-determination procedural-bar procedural-rulings rule-60 statute-of-limitations Should a Fed.R.Civ.P. 60(b) and 60(d)(3) motion be reviewed de novo without a certificate of appealability?
22-6964 Arthur Brown, Jr. v. Texas Texas 2023-03-08 Denied IFP atkins-claim atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment eighth-amendment intellectual-disability moore-precedent moore-v-texas procedural-bar texas-criminal-code-article-11.071-section-5(a)(1) Is Mr. Brown entitled to a merits review of his Atkins claim under federal law, Moore I and Moore II, and was the procedural bar asserted by the Texas…
22-6502 Jerry Joseph Higdon, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-court constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge procedural-bar sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit is using its procedural bar rules in a manner inconsistent with the United States …
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 …
22-6277 Paul E. Pavulak v. United States Third Circuit 2022-12-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-bar rule-60 rule-60(d)(3) section-2255 successive-petition When a petitioner challenges a procedural bar in his 2255 which based on a fraud on the court, may a District Court Judge dismiss this motion as a Suc…
22-6150 Walter Raglin v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-11-23 Denied IFP capital-murder capital-punishment closing-arguments criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance procedural-bar res-judicata state-procedural-bar trial-counsel voir-dire Whether a capital defendant is deprived of the effective assistance of trial counsel
22-6066 Brent Stephens v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-11-16 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2254 appeal appeal'\n\n'Whether the Federal Court of Appeals f appeal'\n\n'Whether the U.S. District Court Magist appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process exhaustion exhaustion'\n\n'Whether the Federal Court of Appea federal-statute fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-deference jury-trial jury-verdict magistrate-bar procedural-bar sentencing standard-of-review standard-of-review'\n\n'Whether the U.S. District trial-court-authority Whether the Trial Court had the authority to supplant the verdict of the jury on punishment
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
21-8024 Demarcus Antonio Taylor v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-06-01 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure constitutional-claim due-process federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-bar standing Did the panel of the Fifth Circuit err by deciding the merit of an appeal not properly before the Court to justify the denial of a Certificate of Appe…
21-7902 Marc Anthony Lowell Endsley v. California Ninth Circuit 2022-05-18 Dismissed IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion legal-remedy procedural-bar standing vexatious-litigant writ-denial Can a vexatious-litigant-order be used to deny a writ-of-habeas-corpus?
21-7605 Lwane A. Mansell v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 28-usc-2254 6th-amendment brady-v-maryland brady-violation constitutional-rights discovery-violation due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-bar sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the district court erred in denying claim one of the petitioner's 28 U.S.C. § 2254 as procedurally barred
21-7379 Patrick Joseph Terry v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-03-16 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process ex-post-facto native-american native-american-rights post-conviction-proceedings procedural-bar standing state-court-review terry-v-oklahoma Did the State of Oklahoma's refusal to provide the relief directed by this Court in Terry v Oklahoma, 141 S, Ct. 191 (2020), rise to the level of a Co…
21-7096 Daniel Lee Reed v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-02-10 Denied IFP 6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability constitutional-error habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice procedural-bar sixth-amendment Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err in denying Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability
21-6063 Jason William Custer v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-6th-14th-amendments due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions miranda-rights pauper-defendant postconviction procedural-bar self-defense When trial and direct appeal counsel are one and the same, can a pauper defendant's due process rights be undermined when the state refuses to appoint…
21-5809 In Re Dwayne Stoutamire 2021-09-29 Dismissed IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability due-process free-standing habeas-corpus pro-se-status procedural-bar procedural-default standing Whether the facts presented establish the petitioner's constitutional right to free-standing actual innocence claims under Schlup v. Delo, 513 U.S. 29…
21-5722 Gregory Dew v. LaShann Eppinger, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-09-20 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence constitutional-violation due-process evidence-review gateway-claim house-v-bell newly-supplemented-record procedural-bar Is a petitioner denied due process when the courts fail to review all relevant evidence in the overall, newly supplemented record for an actual innoce…
21-5549 William D. Lauga v. Louisiana Louisiana 2021-09-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-federalism privilege-and-immunities privileges-and-immunities procedural-bar racial-discrimination sixth-amendment Is the state of Louisiana violating the due process clause of the Sixth Amendment by not addressing claims raised by petitioner on a law that is based…
21-5148 Gregory Dew v. Lashann Eppinger, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-07-21 Dismissed IFP actual-innocence constitutional-violation due-process evidence evidence-review gateway-claim house-v-bell newly-supplemented-record procedural-bar Is a petitioner denied due process when the courts fail to review all relevant evidence in the overall, newly supplemented record for an actual innoce…
21-5127 Noel Aldana v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP cause-and-prejudice constitutional-review double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance pro-se procedural-bar strickland-standard strickland-v-washington untimeliness Does a meritorious claim that a pro se Petitioner raises which clearly present and meet the cause and prejudice standard addressed in the Strickland v…
20-8447 Vinicio Jesus Garcia v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-06-30 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-remedy habeas-corpus jurisdictional-distinction procedural-bar standing state-court supreme-court supreme-court-authority Can a government agency circumvent the authority of the Supreme Court of the United States to create an impediment leading to a procedural bar of a §2…
20-8255 Kenneth Darnell Williams v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-claims fundamental-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel more-usual-remedy procedural-bar writ-of-error-coram-nobis Whether a claim of actual innocence is cognizable on a writ of error coram nobis
20-7989 Cash Wallace Pawley v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus procedural-bar Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeal erred in its unelaborated denial of a certificate of appealability
20-7863 Martin G. Lewis v. DeWayne Hendrix, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-04-28 Denied IFP 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 burrage-v-united-states detention-legality habeas-corpus jurisdictional-challenge merits-review procedural-bar retroactivity statutory-interpretation Whether the government should be foreclosed from relying on prior litigation that it concedes incorrectly invoked a procedural bar to review on the me…
20-7788 Alexander Olivieri v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-04-16 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-law fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan procedural-bar trevino-v-thaler Is the Fifth Circuit effectively overturning the Supreme Court and its own rulings in not granting Olivieri a Certificate of Appealability?
20-7646 Kennis Earl Gatson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-04-01 Denied IFP actual-innocence district-court due-process federal-courts fifth-circuit habeas-corpus procedural-bar schlup-exception schlup-v-delo standard-of-review Did the Fifth Circuit err in deferring to the district court finding that petitioner's Schlup v. Delo exception to overcome the procedural bar was not…
20-7620 Andrew Guy Moret v. Patrick Garrett, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-conviction habeas-corpus judicial-review mootness post-conviction pre-trial-claims pretrial procedural-bar successive-petition successive-writ Does a criminal conviction halt or moot a pending pretrial habeas corpus action?
20-7279 Ong Vue v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-03-01 Denied IFP actual-innocence criminal-appeals due-process fourteenth-amendment laches procedural-bar state-criminal-appeals Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals application of a state procedural bar and laches to Petitioner's actual innocence claims is contrary to…
20-7075 J. P. Parnell v. Doctor Chen, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-02-09 Denied IFP administrative-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process inmate-litigation judicial-discretion medical-need prison-reform procedural-bar standing At what point does the judiciary have an obligation to curtail efforts to procedurally bar inmate litigation and consider gross salient factors that a…
20-6308 John Patrick Wallace v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-11-13 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appellability civil-rights due-process fifth-circuit-precedent fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus procedural-bar standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Does the state lack subject matter jurisdiction under the Fourteenth Amendment?
20-6023 Carlos Anderson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2020-10-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-review eighth-amendment graham-v-florida juvenile-sentencing life-sentence procedural-bar state-court-decisional-law state-court-law Can the Florida Supreme Court use state court decisional law to procedurally bar a non-homicide juvenile defendant from seeking relief from an illegal…
20-5729 Amos Westmoreland v. Glen Johnson, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-conflict-of-interest conflict-of-interest cuyler-v-sullivan due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-bar procedural-default sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington Does the 11th Circuit decision conflict with Martinez v. Ryan?
20-5516 Joseph Peter Garbarini v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-08-27 Denied IFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-court district-court double-jeopardy due-process fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-disagreement procedural-bar Did the Fifth Circuit err in denying a certificate of appealability on a double jeopardy claim
20-5487 Jerome Adams v. Illinois Illinois 2020-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process due-process-clause eighth-amendment procedural-bar res-judicata standing Whether the procedural bar of res judicata may serve as the basis for the dismissal of constitutional claims that were previously raised, but with sub…
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…
20-5151 Antoine Reed v. Daniel Paramo, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appointed-counsel clear-error compulsory-process credibility federal-district-court material-witness police-manipulation procedural-bar standard-of-review state-law state-law-error Did the federal district court commit clear error when it deemed the Reed's properly presented 28 USC section 2254 compulsory process violation claim …
19-8850 Billy Joe Wardlow v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-07-07 Denied IFP circuit-split federal-habeas habeas-corpus merits-determination procedural-bar rule-60(b) successive-petition Whether a Rule 60(b) motion arguing that a procedural defect affected the district court's determination of the merits of the claims in a federal habe…
19-8206 Zaryl G. Bush v. Ohio Ohio 2020-04-07 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment procedural-bar sixth-amendment Should state courts be allowed to hide behind procedural bars when the record indicates the accused was denied constitutional rights?
19-8176 Homer Lawrence Lane v. Alabama Alabama 2020-04-02 Denied IFP appellate-procedure constitutional-claim constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas legal-preclusion procedural-bar state-law state-rule structural-error Whether the State of Alabama may impose a state procedural bar rule to preclude a structural error claim
19-7985 Charles Ray Hooper v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland brady-v-united-states brady-violation certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts government-misconduct guilty-plea plea-bargaining procedural-bar prosecutorial-misconduct Must a defendant continue to challenge a procedural bar ruling after being granted a Certificate of Appealability?
19-7870 Louis Ivester Peets v. Robert W. Fox, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-03-04 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus insanity-defense ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-review not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity procedural-bar schlup-gateway schlup-test Whether newly presented evidence of insanity would constitute 'actual innocence' to allow passage through Schlup's actual innocence gateway
19-7804 Ramon F. Flores v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 appeal criminal-procedure drug-quantity guideline-range guidelines procedural-bar sentence-reduction sentencing sentencing-amendment Whether a defendant is procedurally barred from appealing the district court's original drug quantity determination in a sentence reduction applicatio…
19-7390 Marshall Henry Ellis v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2020-01-23 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence exculpatory-material fifth-amendment lesser-included-offense newly-discovered-evidence procedural-bar sentencing sixth-amendment Is a defendant serving Life for Murder I entitled to newly discovered exculpatory material when that material would make it more likely that the defen…
19-7289 Willis Shane Gordon v. Sam Cline, Warden Tenth Circuit 2020-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP apprendi-v-new-jersey apprendi-violation brady-evidence Brady-Violation burden-of-proof criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy doyle-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-trial kansas-sentencing-guidelines post-arrest-silence prior-convictions procedural-bar prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing-guidelines Issues being raised
19-7175 Curry Robinson v. Barry Smith, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Houtzdale, et al. Third Circuit 2020-01-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment alibi alibi-claim federal-review fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance procedural-bar sixth-amendment Whether the federal question of ineffective assistance of trial counsel as the preserved claim of an alibi was vague and/or unexhausted thereby proced…
19-6823 Michael Dean Gonzales v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-12-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP brain-dysfunction certificate-of-appealability competency-to-stand-trial criminal-procedure drope-v-missouri due-process habeas-corpus mental-competency mental-illness pate-v-robinson procedural-bar state-waiver Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals's waiver bar is an independent and adequate state procedural ground that forecloses federal habeas review
19-697 James Dwight Pavatt v. Tommy Sharp, Interim Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied Amici (2) aggravating-factor aggravating-factors arbitrary-application capital-punishment capital-punishment-sentencing capital-sentence cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus procedural-bar procedural-ruling Whether a State's application of an aggravating factor to justify the death penalty violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments when it makes punish…
19-5986 Brian Whitaker v. Florida Florida 2019-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment aedpa aedpa-standard arbitrary-governmental-action constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection postconviction-relief procedural-bar Do the guarantees of equal protection and due process of law extend to individuals seeking postconviction relief?
19-5968 Carlos Cuesta-Rodriguez v. Mike Carpenter, Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-09-17 Denied IFP capital-case capital-defendants direct-appeal ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan post-conviction procedural-bar public-defender trevino-v-thaler Where a state, through operation of its laws, requires some capital defendants to be represented by the same public defender at both trial and on thei…
19-5827 James Michael Peluso v. Texas Texas 2019-09-05 Denied IFP civil-rights collateral-proceedings constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-claim procedural-bar right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standing Whether a Prisoner in Texas has a right to effective counsel in collateral proceedings which provide the first occasion to raise a Claim of ineffectiv…
19-5636 Roger Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver due-process first-amendment overbreadth-doctrine plea-bargain procedural-bar special-condition special-conditions waiver-of-appeal Does a waiver of appeal procedurally bar a petitioner's appeal arguing that a special condition prohibiting the viewing of sexual material is unconsti…
19-5617 Gary Ray Bowles v. Florida, et al. Florida 2019-08-16 Denied Amici (2)IFP death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-prohibition execution-risk florida-supreme-court intellectual-disability procedural-bar standing state-procedural-bar state-procedure unacceptable-risk Can a state procedural bar override the Eighth Amendment prohibition against executing the intellectually disabled?
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
19-5012 Frank Sarcona v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-issues constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-bar prosecutorial-misconduct Did the District Court and the Court of Appeals err in relying on procedural bar instead of the underlying constitutional issues by blocking a federal…
18-9595 Mike Du Trieu v. Michael Martel, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 appellate-review constitutional-law due-process federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure procedural-bar state-court state-court-error Whether a federal court reviewing a state habeas decision must determine whether the state court erred in its application of a procedural bar when the…
18-9372 Quisi Bryan v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-05-21 Denied IFP aedpa constitutional-interpretation federal-constitutional-law federal-review federalism habeas-corpus panetti-v-quarterman procedural-bar retroactive-law retroactivity state-court Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2244 prevents a federal habeas court from reviewing a state court's voluntary and independent retroactive application of a new rul…
18-9076 Bobby Glenn v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied IFP actual-innocence due-process habeas-corpus habeas-petition herrera-v-collins mcguiggins-v-perkins mcquiggins-v-perkins newly-discovered-evidence procedural-bar procedural-default Whether petitioner's untimely first habeas petition for actual innocence claim is procedurally barred despite reliable proof of innocence
18-9013 Michael P. Crenshaw v. Illinois Illinois 2019-04-26 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment coerced-confession constitutional-claim due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-review miranda-rights procedural-bar statute-of-limitations substantive-evidence Whether the use of a coerced confession as substantive evidence at trial violates due process rights under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments
18-7847 Ronell Howlett v. Reed Richardson, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-court-review federal-review habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-28-usc-2254 procedural-bar rape-shield-law right-to-present-defense state-court state-court-review Is a federal court permitted/required to review a state court's reliance on a procedural bar, when a petitioner claims the application of the facts do…
18-7431 Teddrick Batiste v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-01-15 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 death-penalty due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance organic-brain-damage procedural-bar state-court-deference wilson-v-sellers Whether the state court's post-conviction process was adequate to ascertain the truth and lacked critical components of an adjudication on the merits
18-909 Valarie Davis v. Fiat Chrysler Automobiles U.S., LLC Sixth Circuit 2019-01-14 Denied bad-faith bankruptcy bankruptcy-disclosure civil-claim civil-procedure civil-rights disclosure judicial-estoppel legal-doctrine procedural-bar standing takings Whether a plaintiff who fails to disclose her civil claim in bankruptcy is barred, under the doctrine of judicial-estoppel, from pursuing her claim—ev…
18-7177 Robert Joe Gonzales v. Kelly Santoro, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244 chavis federal-habeas habeas-corpus ninth-circuit procedural-bar procedural-bars statute-of-limitations summary-denial timeliness Whether the Ninth Circuit abdicated its responsibility under Chavis when it treated a pincite in a summary denial to a page of a state opinion that ad…
18-7089 Esau Milliner v. Kathy Litteral, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver closing-argument confession constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-degree-burglary ineffective-assistance-of-counsel initial-aggressor procedural-bar right-to-appeal right-to-testify self-defense trial-counsel Effective-assistance-of-counsel
18-6826 Carlos David Caro v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied IFP §-2255-claim bop-data brady-violation criminal-procedure-brady death-penalty due-process exculpatory-evidence federal-prison government-misconduct procedural-bar sentencing sentencing-procedure suppression-of-evidence Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in ruling Caro was procedurally barred from raising a § 2255 claim that the Government's suppression of available exc…
18-6250 Curtis Nairn v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th and 14th Amendment rights unexhausted and meritless which violated Petitioner's 5th aedpa amendment-violation civil-rights constitutional-amendments constitutional-claims constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-circuit exhaustion exhaustion-of-remedies habeas-corpus procedural-bar procedural-default section-2254 Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeal err when it denied Petitioner's §2254 petition as procedurally barred by AEDPA, unexhausted and meritless…
18-6201 Nicholas DeAngelis v. Bruce Plumley, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection federal-habeas federal-prisoners habeas-corpus procedural-bar procedural-bars time-limits whether-federal-prisoners-have-the-same-gateway-for-actual-innocence-as-state-prisoners
18-6147 Macking Nettles v. Connie Horton, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-10-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aedpa due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus mental-incompetence procedural-bar substantive-due-process time-limit Whether a procedural bar or the AEDPA time limit apply to the substantive due process mental incompetence issue that petitioner plead guilty while men…
18-6107 Jacob Logan Stone v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-09-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process notice opportunity-to-be-heard pro-se pro-se-litigant procedural-bar procedural-bars reentry summary-affirmance supervised-release Does the 8th Circuit's practice of denying pro se litigants the opportunity to brief their appeal deny the basic requirements of Due Process, notice a…
18-5744 Arthur Lawton Clark v. Walter Berry, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment constitutional-violation due-process guilty-plea habeas habeas-corpus indictment indictment-insufficiency ineffective-assistance procedural-bar procedural-default Whether petitioner's indictment and guilty plea were constitutionally deficient, and whether the lower courts erred in denying his claims of ineffecti…
18-5507 Mark Schwarzman v. David W. Gray, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-08-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-claim criminal-procedure critical-physical-evidence due-process genital-herpes habeas-corpus herpes-simplex-virus medical-evidence procedural-bar schlup schlup-standard standing Whether the highly infectious, extremely contagious, incurable sexually transmitted disease Herpes Simplex Virus HSV-2 (genital herpes) is sufficient …
24A948 Michael Tanzi v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida Denied constitutional-law death-penalty federal-review jury-trial procedural-bar sixth-amendment Whether a state supreme court's procedural bar on a death row inmate's federal constitutional claim violates the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial…