procedural-bars
15 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-6541 | Lonzie Nichols v. Mississippi | Mississippi | 2026-01-12 | Pending | IFP | constitutional-rights due-process ex-post-facto liberty-interest procedural-bars sentencing-guidelines | Whether a state's application and enforcement of procedural bars via its highest appellate court results in the annihilation of fundamental constituti… |
| 25A653 | Michael Dewayne Lairy v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2025-12-04 | Application | actual-innocence armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split habeas-corpus procedural-bars sentencing-enhancement | Whether an individual who did not actually commit three qualifying predicate offenses can assert an actual innocence exception to procedural bars on h… | |
| 24-7516 | Darrell Allen Hess v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2025-06-26 | Denied | IFP | counsel-denial fraud-on-court habeas-corpus procedural-bars sixth-amendment state-ground | Whether Oklahoma's application of successive postconviction procedural bars constitutes an adequate and independent state ground precluding federal re… |
| 24-5956 | Charles Jordan v. Mississippi | Mississippi | 2024-11-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion procedural-bars speedy-trial statute-of-limitations | Whether a defendant can be deprived of liberty in violation of due process and whether claims affecting fundamental constitutional rights can be proce… |
| 23-6924 | Leonard Farrell Willis v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2024-03-07 | Denied | IFP | actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability exhaustion-doctrine habeas habeas-corpus limitation-period mcquiggin-v-perkins procedural-bars procedural-default sentencing-error | Does a federal habeas petitioner's claim of actual innocence of a non-capital sentence exception operate, in the wake of McQuiggin v. Perkins, 133 S.C… |
| 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… |
| 22-5756 | Adelbert H. Warner, II v. K. Zook, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2022-10-04 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence antiterrorism-act antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act constitutional-exception equal-protection habeas-corpus procedural-bars schlup-v-delo successive-application | Does the Schlup v Delo, 513 US 298 (1995), actual innocence exception to procedural bars to habeas corpus relief serve as a gateway through the proced… |
| 21-6847 | John William Childers v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections | Tenth Circuit | 2022-01-13 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP | 28-usc-2254 actual-innocence gateway-claim habeas habeas-corpus pro-se procedural-bars procedural-default remand tenth-circuit | Whether a pro-se-state-prisoner-adequately-alleged-gateway-actual-innocence-claim |
| 21-186 | Oklahoma v. Shaun Michael Bosse | Oklahoma | 2021-08-10 | Dismissed | Amici (2) | criminal-procedure indian-country jurisdiction mcgirt-precedent non-indian-crimes postconviction-relief procedural-bars prosecutorial-authority state-prosecution | Whether a State may impose procedural or equitable bars to postconviction relief on the claim that the State lacked prosecutorial authority because th… |
| 18-8473 | Eric Laquinne Brown, aka Eric L. Brown, aka Eric Brown v. Mississippi | Mississippi | 2019-03-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights competency competency-hearing constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea mental-competency mental-evaluation mental-health mississippi-uniform-rule-9.06 plea-bargaining procedural-bars procedural-due-process standing | Did Brown have a Constitutional right to have a competency hearing before he plead guilty? |
| 18-8356 | In Re Steven Eason | 2019-03-08 | Denied | IFP | actual-innocence civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-limitations procedural-bars prosecutorial-misconduct state-law successive-habeas successive-petitions | Whether the petitioner's fundamental constitutional right to due process was violated when the state prosecuted him on counts of his indictment becaus… | |
| 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… |
| 18-6201 | 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 |
| 18-6107 | 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… |