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25-6609 Roger Hoan Brady v. Sircoya M. Williams, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-01-16 Pending IFP batson-challenge certificate-of-appealability judicial-error procedural-default racial-discrimination voir-dire Whether the U.S. District Court erred in holding a Batson claim procedurally defaulted due to missing voir dire transcripts and denying a Certificate …
25A767 Dawaun Dupree Carson v. Tina Walker, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. Third Circuit 2026-01-02 Application brady-claim constitutional-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default sufficiency-of-evidence Whether a state court's denial of a habeas petition based on procedural default and insufficient evidence claims comports with due process and federal…
25-6402 Anwar Mithavayani v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-12-18 Pending Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the lower courts provided sufficient process to test the legality of Petitioner's Detention under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 and due process jurispruden…
25A670 Marzet Farris, III v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-09 Application certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction procedural-default Whether a state prisoner's habeas petition can be procedurally defaulted when the prisoner was denied effective assistance of counsel during state pos…
25-656 In Re Rayon Payne 2025-12-05 Denied Response Waived due-process immigration-law judicial-review jurisdictional-conflict procedural-default supervisory-authority Whether the Supreme Court should exercise supervisory authority to resolve a jurisdictional conflict between federal courts and address potential due …
25-6302 Jerome Mack v. John Wood, Superintendent, Shawangunk Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2025-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-claim due-process habeas-corpus identification-evidence ineffective-assistance procedural-default Whether the lower courts erred in procedurally barring petitioner's constitutional claims and denying relief under various legal standards
25-6252 Wayne C. Murphy v. Shannon Butrum, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-11-26 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default sixth-circuit Did the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erroneously deny petitioner's habeas corpus petition by procedural default without reviewing the record…
25-6143 Rodney James Dilworth v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-11-17 Denied IFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-default standard-of-review Whether the Court of Appeals erred in denying Petitioner's request for a certificate of appealability
25A576 John Bejarano v. William Reubart, Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-11-17 Application capital-punishment federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default state-procedure successive-petition Whether a state's procedural default bar for successive state petitions in capital habeas cases constitutes an inadequate state procedural mechanism t…
25A495 Mark Hanna v. John Bel Edwards, former Governor of Louisiana, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-10-30 Application appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights good-faith-standard in-forma-pauperis prisoner-litigation procedural-default Whether a prisoner's in forma pauperis (IFP) status can be denied on appeal when procedural challenges prevent full review of the underlying civil rig…
25-5987 Francisco Javier Ochoa-Anaya v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion actual-innocence ineffective-assistance procedural-default sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent Whether the district court and Ninth Circuit abused discretion in holding an actual-innocence claim procedurally defaulted and conflicting with Suprem…
25A458 Martin Robinson v. George A. Fredrick, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-10-22 Application exhaustion-doctrine federal-review habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief procedural-default statute-of-limitations Whether a federal habeas petition filed under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 is timely when the petitioner has pursued multiple state post-conviction remedies and f…
25A433 Roberto Corral v. Arrow Electronics, Inc. Second Circuit 2025-10-15 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure extraordinary-circumstances medical-issues pro-se procedural-default second-circuit Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals improperly denied a pro se litigant's appeal based on a procedural default without considering exceptional…
25-5773 Karina Yohera Flores v. Texas Texas 2025-10-01 Denied IFP capital-murder court-of-appeals due-process jury-punishment lesser-included-offenses procedural-default Did the Court of Appeals err by affirming the trial court's order denying a jury punishment hearing and ruling on lesser included offenses without not…
25A368 Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections v. Justin Michael Wolfe Fourth Circuit 2025-09-30 Presumed Complete actual-innocence circuit-split gateway-claim habeas-corpus procedural-default schlup-standard Whether 'new evidence' under the Schlup actual innocence standard requires newly discovered evidence unavailable at trial or encompasses all evidence …
25-5718 In Re Christopher J. Bradford 2025-09-25 Denied IFP aedpa cause-and-prejudice constitutional-rights habeas-corpus procedural-default second-successive-petition Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in dismissing a second or successive habeas corpus petition under AEDPA's gatekeeping provision and cause and preju…
25-5705 Jua Smith v. Delta Barometre, Superintendent, Otisville Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2025-09-23 Denied IFP appellate-counsel counsel-disclosure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default writ-authorization Whether petitioner is entitled to have his habeas corpus petition disregarded if habeas counsel was not acting on behalf of the petitioner and failed …
25-322 Dimitry Kuperschmidt v. Jeff Angradi, Chief Probation Officer, et al. Third Circuit 2025-09-18 Denied appellate-court custody district-court habeas-corpus procedural-default waiver Was the Pennsylvania appellate court rule on which the District Court relied to find procedural default a 'firmly established' and 'consistently follo…
25-5664 In Re Amy Bishop Anderson 2025-09-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-error habeas-corpus new-evidence procedural-default specific-intent steroid-psychosis Whether a habeas corpus petition alleging new evidence of steroid psychosis can overcome procedural default and demonstrate a lack of specific intent …
25-5648 Ikeie Ranordo Smith v. Dale Bonn, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-09-16 Denied IFP federal-claim leave-to-file michigan-court-of-appeals procedural-default state-procedural-rules supplemental-brief Whether a Michigan Court of Appeals order granting leave to file a supplemental brief precludes review of a federal claim under state procedural rules
25-5623 Devon Joseph Anderson v. Alicia Carver, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability district-court federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default state-conviction Whether the United States District Court for the District of Nevada properly issued a certificate of appealability for a habeas petition challenging a…
25-5589 Shane Stevens v. Colorado Colorado 2025-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea mootness postconviction-relief procedural-default Whether a state postconviction scheme that bars relief for a guilty plea induced by a sentence later declared void ab initio violates the Due Process …
25A274 John Benton Ragland v. Karin Arnold, Superintendent, Stafford Creek Corrections Center Ninth Circuit 2025-09-09 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim federal-review habeas-corpus ninth-circuit procedural-default Whether a state prisoner's petition for a writ of habeas corpus was procedurally defaulted when the district court denied a certificate of appealabili…
25A254 Michael Broomer v. Brian Emig, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2025-09-03 Presumed Complete antiterrorism-act federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default statute-of-limitations timeliness Whether a federal habeas petition filed by a state prisoner is timely under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act's statute of limitations
25-5445 Carlos L. Woodson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default rule-60b subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether under Wainwright v. Sykes a court's direct appeal order can be procedurally defaulted and barred from 2254 Habeas Corpus review for failure to…
25-5403 In Re Michael Jay Harris 2025-08-19 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct Whether a subsequent habeas petition raising claims of prosecutorial misconduct and actual innocence should be permitted to proceed despite procedural…
25-5386 Aurelias Marshall v. Adam Douglas, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-08-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-violation de-novo-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-instruction procedural-default Whether the Federal Court of Appeals properly reviewed the district court's procedural default ruling de novo and whether the state procedural rule wa…
25-5317 Stephen Corey Bryant v. Joel Anderson, Acting Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-08-11 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez-rule post-conviction-counsel procedural-default Did the Fourth Circuit err when it denied a certificate of appealability on Bryant's claim that post-conviction counsel's deficient performance establ…
25A150 Maurice Cruz-Webster v. Brian Emig, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2025-08-05 Presumed Complete cumulative-error habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct strickland-standard Whether a state court's denial of a criminal defendant's ineffective assistance of counsel claim constitutes an unreasonable application of clearly es…
25-5200 Isaias Lopez Nunez v. Martin Gamboa, Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure ex-post-facto ineffective-assistance ninth-circuit procedural-default sentencing Whether the California courts' and Ninth Circuit's rejection of an Ex Post Facto Clause claim violates clearly established U.S. Supreme Court preceden…
25-5172 William Trampas Widmyer v. Jonathan Frame, Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex Fourth Circuit 2025-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights federal-court habeas-corpus procedural-default rule-60b state-court Whether a Rule 60(B) motion challenging procedural default in a habeas corpus proceeding violates constitutional rights when state and federal court e…
25-5125 Terrence Mack Booth v. Kevin McCoy, Warden Fourth Circuit 2025-07-16 Denied IFP constitutional-right evidentiary-hearing fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default Did the Fourth Circuit err in deferring to the lower courts' findings that the petitioner was not entitled to an evidentiary hearing or relief on his …
25-5134 Nathan G. Flemming v. Taurean James, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP district-court-error due-process jury-influence procedural-default remmer-claim sentencing-delay Did the District Court err in finding that a 13-month delay between sentencing and imposition of sentence was not a violation of due process?
24A1273 Claudia C. Hoerig v. Shannon Olds, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-06-23 Presumed Complete aedpa certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right habeas-corpus procedural-default state-court Whether the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) permits federal habeas review of a state court conviction when the petitioner's clai…
24-7338 Justin Panus v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-05-30 Denied IFP aedpa-review certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus procedural-default state-court-findings substantive-claims Whether Petitioner was entitled to a Certificate of Appealability on multiple procedural and substantive grounds related to state court findings and A…
24-7283 James Rubio v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-05-23 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus procedural-default Whether the Fifth Circuit improperly denied a Certificate of Appealability (COA) by misapplying procedural default rules and violating due process in …
24-7224 Devon Delehoy v. South Dakota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-05-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus kidnapping procedural-default Whether a person can be considered held against their will in various scenarios involving voluntary movement and interactions
24-7144 Lamar Haymes v. Jack Stollsteimer, District Attorney of Delaware County, Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2025-05-07 Denied IFP cause-requirement habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez-rule post-conviction-relief procedural-default Does the narrow 'cause' requirement announced by this Court in Martinez v. Ryan preclude prisoners from establishing 'cause' for purposes of excusing …
24-1105 Alan Kushner v. Dave W. Sunday, Jr., Attorney General of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2025-04-24 Denied appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-default third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously denied the petitioner's application for a Certificate of Appealability
24-6914 Joanthony Johnson v. Michael Shewmaker, Warden Eighth Circuit 2025-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default state-court-procedure statutory-interpretation Whether a reasonable jurist could debate the applicability of 28 U.S.C. §2254(d) when a state court rejects a claim on procedural grounds
24-6882 Michael C. Romig v. Kathy Brittain, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Frackville, et al. Third Circuit 2025-03-27 Denied IFP constitutional-rights court-appointed-counsel due-process equal-protection fair-trial procedural-default Was it constitutional for a court to procedurally default due to court-appointed counsel's action/inaction where constitutional rights were potentiall…
24-6834 Kimeo Delmar Conley v. Tami J. Schult Seventh Circuit 2025-03-24 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default Whether a state court's denial of a habeas petition based on procedural default can be overcome by a showing of actual innocence
24-6726 Jason Krumback v. Amber Pirraglia, Acting Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-03-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP court-jurisdiction habeas-corpus innocence-claim procedural-default sentencing-review witness-testimony Whether a pro se petitioner can challenge multiple procedural aspects of a habeas corpus petition and court proceedings
24-6668 Chad Alan Lee v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry Ninth Circuit 2025-02-27 Denied IFP agency-relationship federal-habeas ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief procedural-default state-court-exhaustion Whether attorney abandonment in state PCR proceedings excuses a petitioner's failure to develop factual basis of a claim under 28 U.S.C § 2254(e)(2)
24-6561 Tonia Scott v. Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2025-02-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-review exceptional-circumstances exhaustion-of-remedies habeas-corpus procedural-default state-prisoner Whether a state court prisoner can seek habeas corpus relief under exceptional circumstances when procedural defaults exist and state remedies have be…
24-6522 Samuel Carl Neyhart v. Tyrell Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violations habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel martinez-review ninth-circuit procedural-default Whether the Ninth Circuit and Idaho Federal District Court erred in procedurally defaulting habeas claims and denying a Certificate of Appealability f…
24-826 Stacey Ian Humphreys v. Shawn Emmons, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-04 Denied Relisted (8) aedpa cause-and-prejudice federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default Whether a federal court must apply the deferential review provisions of AEDPA to the state court's adjudication of an ineffective assistance of counse…
24-6433 Jesus C. Gonzalez v. Dan Cromwell, Warden Seventh Circuit 2025-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process federal-claim ineffective-assistance merits-adjudication procedural-default state-court Whether a defendant who raises only a federal due process claim in state court proceedings has given state courts an opportunity to act on his claim p…
24-6367 Nyah Sekel v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia Fourth Circuit 2025-01-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP certificate-of-service civil-procedure ethical-violations judicial-discretion procedural-default service-of-process Is the defense still in default because they failed to physically serve the Plaintiff in compliance with the Rules of Civil Procedure?
24-704 Xengxai Yang v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-01-02 Denied Response Waived collateral-review competency-claim criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default Whether the procedural-default doctrine bars a competency-based due process claim when a petitioner raises that claim for the first time on collateral…
24-6148 Ronald Lee Neels v. Bob Dooley, Warden Eighth Circuit 2024-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default Whether a federal district court's denial of a habeas petition based on procedural grounds constitutes a violation of the defendant's constitutional r…
24-6145 Jermaine Jamaica Campbell, Sr. v. William Gittere, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-12-16 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ninth-circuit-standard procedural-default sentencing-error Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals misapplied the standard governing the grant of a certificate of appealability for a federal habeas petition…
24-6138 Andre Terial Love v. J. M. Robertson Ninth Circuit 2024-12-13 Denied IFP constitutional-provisions due-process federal-review procedural-default state-court supreme-court-precedent Whether the state court's procedural default finding bars federal review of claims one and two, and whether the admission of other crimes evidence vio…
24A582 Stacey Ian Humphreys v. Shawn Emmons, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-13 Presumed Complete aedpa cause-and-prejudice circuit-split death-penalty juror-misconduct procedural-default Whether the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) applies to procedural default analysis in reviewing claims of juror misconduct that …
24-6105 Ryan Lewis Hilyard v. Wyoming Wyoming 2024-12-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection federal-rules-of-evidence fourteenth-amendment procedural-default strickland-standard Did the Wyoming Supreme Court apply federal rules of evidence correctly and deny Mr. Hilyard's Fourteenth Amendment right to effective assistance of c…
24-5940 Charlton Beasley v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 924(c)-conviction actual-innocence davis-decision procedural-default section-2255 statute-of-limitations Did Beasley overcome procedural default under § 2255 when filing within one year of the Davis Supreme Court decision, and is he entitled to relief for…
24-5936 Samuel Lee Jones, Jr. v. Michael Wheeler Fifth Circuit 2024-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts constitutional-violation habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default rule-60b6 Does the District Court and Fifth Circuit's ruling conflict with Supreme Court precedents regarding ineffective assistance of counsel claims, appointm…
24-505 Robert L. Ignasiak, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-11-04 Denied collateral-review motion-to-vacate procedural-default retroactive-application section-2255 statutory-interpretation May a Supreme Court statutory interpretation case that was held to apply retroactively in collateral proceedings constitute cause to excuse procedural…
24-5756 Jonathan Leigh Sosnowicz v. Kris Mayes, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-10-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP cause-and-prejudice factual-development habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default state-prisoner Did the Ninth Circuit correctly apply this Court's decision in Ramirez?
24-5651 Michael T. McLaughlin v. Ronald Oliver, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-09-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP diligence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez-rule ninth-circuit procedural-default Does the Court's decision in Ramirez change the diligence standard for developing factual bases in state court procedurally barred petitions?
24-5494 Brian Scott Witham v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-09-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence criminal-conviction habeas-corpus plea-bargaining procedural-default section-2255 Whether a § 2255 petitioner who pleaded guilty to a charged offense based on conduct that is not a crime and who later seeks to rely on actual innocen…
24A240 George L. Fields v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-05 Presumed Complete constitutional-right exhaustion-requirement ineffective-assistance jury-instructions procedural-default strickland-standard Whether a state court's denial of a prisoner's ineffective assistance of counsel claims constitutes a violation of due process when the claims involve…
24A211 Richard Stanton Whitman v. David W. Gray, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-08-27 Presumed Complete circuit-split due-process federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default waiver Whether a state waives its procedural-default defense in federal habeas proceedings by arguing the merits of a claim in district court while raising t…
24A190 Chad D. Begay v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-21 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review federal-habeas habeas-corpus ninth-circuit procedural-default Whether a state court's denial of a certificate of appealability in a post-conviction proceeding violates a criminal defendant's constitutional right …
24-5311 Kurnicus Hayes v. Arnold Patrick Fifth Circuit 2024-08-13 Denied IFP aedpa-limitation certificate-of-appealability federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default state-custody Whether Mr. Hayes's 2254 petition satisfies the Slack v. McDaniel standard for Certificate of Appealability (COA) on a procedurally-denied petition, a…
24-5252 Vaughn Alexander Cropper v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-conviction extraordinary-review fundamental-error habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default Whether a procedurally defaulted habeas petition challenging a criminal conviction raises a fundamental miscarriage of justice that warrants extraordi…
24-5245 Otis Phillips v. Brian Emig, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2024-08-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP coleman-v-thompson due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction martinez-v-ryan procedural-default Question not identified.
24-5196 Nicholas Salfi v. Amy Robey, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP counsel-duty effective-assistance habeas-corpus Lafler-v-Cooper martinez-exception plea-negotiations prejudice procedural-default sixth-circuit Effective-assistance-of-counsel
24-5093 David Nam v. John Rivello, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. Third Circuit 2024-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default Due-process
24-5053 Patrick Keith Hirt v. Amber Sundquist, Superintendent, Deer Ridge Correctional Institution Oregon 2024-07-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts bounds-v-smith constitutional-provisions habeas-corpus lewis-v-casey prison-officials prisoners-rights procedural-default supreme-court-precedent Did the State of Oregon violate this Court's holdings in Bounds v. Smith and Lewis v. Casey when prison officials impeded access to courts and proxima…
23-7794 Michael T. Washington v. Brian Emig, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2024-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence perjury procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct substantial-assistance Is state-attorney-undisclosed-substantial-assistance-motion-newly-discovered-evidence-resulting-in-brady-violation
23A1137 Brian Scott Witham v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-06-21 Presumed Complete federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction procedural-default sixth-circuit Whether the Sixth Circuit improperly applied procedural default rules in denying a federal habeas petitioner's post-conviction motion for relief
23-7740 William H. Baker v. Angela Hunsinger-Stuff, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-06-18 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default sixth-amendment Whether the procedural default creates a miscarriage of justice that denies Petitioner his fundamental rights to due-process
23-7719 Justin T. Winston v. Jon Noble, Warden Seventh Circuit 2024-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP cause-and-prejudice constitutional-rights constitutional-violations federal-claims postconviction-motion procedural-default state-law wisconsin-law Did Mr. Winston procedurally default all of his federal claims?
23-7647 Michael Fred Houston v. Texas Texas 2024-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-review constitutional-right-to-counsel due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel initial-review-proceeding post-conviction-relief post-conviction-review procedural-default right-to-counsel successive-petitions Is a defendant constitutionally entitled to the appointment of counsel in initial-review collateral proceedings?
23-7649 Rodolfo Ortiz v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent constitutional-vagueness habeas-corpus harmless-error johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states procedural-default section-2255 vagueness-challenge Whether reasonable jurists could debate whether controlling circuit precedent precludes issuance of a certificate of appealability
23-7563 Sanford Benjamin Gloster v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa brady-doctrine brady-violation constitutional-rights due-process giglio-doctrine habeas-corpus procedural-default Does the admission of false evidence constitute Giglio/Brady violations under Due Process Clause
23-7535 Deqwon Saquod Lewis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 10th-amendment certificate-of-appealability constitutional-vagueness due-process federal-enforcement overbreadth procedural-default tenth-amendment vagueness Whether a COA should issue due to federal enforcement of §1591 to local pandering and prostitution cases
23-7510 Tidiane Kone v. Justin Brown, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus indian-law judicial-procedure procedural-default standing state-court Whether a court applied the correct standard in dismissing a complaint alleging a violation of the Indian Civil Rights Act
23-7351 Rolandas Milinavicuus v. Tyrone Oliver, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-claim constitutional-law due-process extraordinary-circumstances federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default statute-of-limitations Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erred in denying Petitioner's application for a certificate of appealability (COA)…
23A946 Jose Rojas-Meliton v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-04-22 Presumed Complete civil-procedure ineffective-assistance prisoner-rights pro-se procedural-default rule-60b Whether a pro se prisoner's motion for relief under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b) can overcome procedural default when the prisoner claims lac…
23-7268 Pikerson Mentor v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-split constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process johnson-v-united-states procedural-default statutory-interpretation vagueness vagueness-challenge Whether Mr. Mentor established cause to overcome procedural default of his 'ordinary-case' vagueness challenge
23-7276 Robert Dwayne Smith v. Amy Robey, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default sixth-amendment sixth-circuit Did the court of appeals erroneously deny petitioner's habeas corpus petition due to procedural default without reviewing the record and basing its de…
23-7227 Richard Lee Tabler v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-04-15 Denied Amici (1)IFP agency-relationship habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel maples-v-thomas martinez-v-ryan procedural-default sixth-amendment state-post-conviction Where counsel's renunciation of representation leads to a procedural default in state post-conviction proceedings that provide the initial opportunity…
23A902 Gustavo Galindez v. Michigan Michigan 2024-04-09 Presumed Complete final-judgment habeas-corpus leave-to-appeal michigan-court-of-appeals procedural-default supreme-court-review Whether the Michigan Court of Appeals' denial of leave to appeal and holding of the case in abeyance pending another Supreme Court decision constitute…
23-7134 Daniel Louis Jackson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-04-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure cole-application due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default search-and-seizure search-warrant standard-of-review Whether a magistrate can rely on information not provided in the affidavit when determining if there is a substantial basis to issue a warrant
23-7085 Isaiah Glenndell Tryon v. Christe Quick, Warden Tenth Circuit 2024-03-27 Denied IFP atkins-claim atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment flynn-effect habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability post-conviction-relief procedural-default Where a state habeas court considers the merits of a defaulted counsel claim to decide whether statutorily required post-conviction counsel was ineffe…
23-7039 Everett Dale Webb v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-03-20 Denied IFP appeals appellate-counsel constitutional-right constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-exhaustion procedural-default Whether the court of appeals erred in concluding that Petitioner's double-jeopardy claim was unexhausted or procedurally-defaulted
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…
23A813 Homayoun Maali v. William K. Harrington First Circuit 2024-03-04 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure circuit-court dismissal filing-fee pro-se procedural-default Whether a pro se litigant's failure to timely file an appellate brief and pay filing fees warrants dismissal of an appeal under First Circuit procedur…
23-6848 Stewart Smith v. Laurel Harry, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Camp Hill, et al. Third Circuit 2024-02-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP bias certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus habeas-relief ineffective-assistance-of-counsel partial-pcra-jurist pro-se procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct Was petitioner's guilty verdict obtained and sustained in violation of due process, prosecutorial misconduct, ineffective assistance of counsel, bias,…
23-6764 Kevin Ray Morris, Sr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-02-20 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus mailroom-misconduct prison-mailroom prisoner-mail procedural-default Whether the lower court erred in denying petitioner's claim to equitable tolling based on the prison mailroom's mishandling of prisoner mail, includin…
23-6765 Ethan Andrew Hannold v. Bobbi Jo Salamon, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit 2024-02-15 Denied IFP his father and the egregious breach of duty from criminal-procedure due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health mental-health-diagnosis procedural-default Did the U.S. Court of Appeals of the Third Circuit fail to consider the effect the combination of the relevant attributes of Mr. Hannold's diagnoses o…
23-6743 Loren J. Larson, Jr. v. Alaska Alaska 2024-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-claims effective-assistance effective-representation exhaustion-requirement exhaustion-requirements habeas-corpus procedural-default sixth-amendment Does the Sixth Amendment right to 'effective representation' require that an attorney provide meaningful, conflict free consultation prior to the atto…
23-6727 Daniel J. Erb v. John Rivello, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. Third Circuit 2024-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process federal-law guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the lower courts' decisions were contrary to or involved an unreasonable application of clearly established federal law and an unreasonable de…
23-6695 Douglas W. Curtis v. Brian Eller, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa appellate-review due-process fourteenth-amendment novel-state-procedural-default plea-offer procedural-default standard-of-review state-procedural-default Whether Petitioner was denied his Fourteenth Amendment right to the Due Process of Law
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 Question not identified
23A713 Richard Lee Tabler v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-02-01 Presumed Complete agency-duties death-penalty ineffective-assistance procedural-default state-habeas waiver-of-rights Whether an attorney's complete abdication of agency duties during a client's waiver of state habeas review can constitute cause to excuse a procedural…
23A705 Sherman Lee Ridley v. Brian Chambers, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-31 Presumed Complete constitutional-claims eleventh-circuit federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default state-prisoner Whether the Eleventh Circuit properly applied federal habeas corpus standards in reviewing a state prisoner's constitutional claims
23A700 Cyrus Sanai v. Alex Villanueva Ninth Circuit 2024-01-30 Presumed Complete appellate-disentitlement district-court due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default sua-sponte Whether a federal district court may sua sponte dismiss a habeas petition on procedural default grounds without providing the petitioner an opportunit…
23-810 Harold Jean-Baptiste v. Almonte Stream Food Corporation Second Circuit 2024-01-26 Denied appellate-procedure circuit-rule civil-procedure court-procedure default-judgment due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-error procedural-default second-circuit standing Whether inexcusable error or neglect by U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Clerk by not ruling for default judgment
23-6598 Shuaib A. Haji Mohamed v. Jay Forshey, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-01-26 Denied IFP constitutional-claim constitutional-rights discretionary-review federal-jurisdiction federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default state-review Has a state prisoner seeking federal habeas corpus made a substantial showing that his petition should have proceeded further where the procedural def…
23-6451 Travis Dwight Green v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-01-10 Denied IFP abandonment attorney-abandonment cause cause-doctrine circuit-split federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus maples-v-thomas mental-incompetence procedural-default standard-of-review Are a district court's findings on habeas abandonment subject to clear error review?
23-6423 Jasper Frazier v. Christina Reagle, Commissioner, Indiana Department of Correction Seventh Circuit 2024-01-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure ninth-circuit procedural-default standing Did the United States District Court err in law by failing to consider exculpatory evidence in the record
23A619 Steven Antonius, aka Sealed Defendant 1, Shervington Lovell, aka Sealed Defendant 1, Argemiro Zapata-Castro, aka Sealed Defendant 1 v. United States Second Circuit 2024-01-03 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance notice-of-appeal procedural-default right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether a criminal defendant's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel is violated when counsel fails to timely file a notice of appe…
23A594 Joseph Randolph Mays v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-12-28 Presumed Complete appellate-review district-court federal-tort-claims-act motion-to-dismiss pro-se-litigant procedural-default Whether a pro se litigant's Federal Tort Claims Act lawsuit against the United States can be dismissed with prejudice when the plaintiff fails to time…
23-6183 Steven Justin Villalona v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence appellate-court attorney-abandonment civil-procedure constitutional-claim evidentiary-standard federal-review habeas-corpus mandate-recall material-omissions procedural-default standing Whether a claim of attorney abandonment of material omissions in the record may justify the granting of a motion to recall the mandate of an appellate…
23-6160 Kennath Artez Henderson v. Zac Pounds, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-12-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-review federal-habeas-corpus grand-jury-discrimination hill-v-lockhart ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington supremacy-clause Racial-discrimination-in-grand-jury-selection
23A477 Christopher Collings v. David Vandergriff, Warden Eighth Circuit 2023-11-28 Presumed Complete capital-case certificate-of-appealability eighth-circuit federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying a certificate of appealability for all eight grounds raised in a capital habeas corpus pe…
23A472 Travis Dwight Green v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-11-27 Presumed Complete capital-punishment habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel mental-illness procedural-default schizophrenia Whether a defendant's severe mental illness and state habeas counsel's abandonment can constitute cause to excuse procedural default in a capital case…
23-6110 Eulandas J. Flowers v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry Ninth Circuit 2023-11-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process habeas habeas-corpus miller-claim miller-v-alabama postconviction-proceedings procedural-default state-court-ruling state-postconviction Whether a state court's surprise procedural-bar ruling that neither party requested is adequate to support procedural default
23-6022 Kevin Liu v. Marcus Pollard, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-11-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP choice-of-counsel constitutional-claim federal-constitutional-claim habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default right-to-counsel state-law state-procedural-bar Is the Ninth Circuit's decision contrary to this Court's decision in Martin v. Walker?
23A426 Jerome M. Teats v. Brandon Watwood, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-11-13 Presumed Complete collateral-review en-banc-petition exhaustion-rule martinez-v-ryan procedural-default successive-petition Whether the Supreme Court should recognize an exception to procedural default rules for successive petitions in state post-conviction proceedings base…
23A424 Kevin Keith v. Harold May, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-11-13 Presumed Complete death-penalty federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default sixth-circuit successive-petition Whether a state court's denial of a successive habeas corpus petition challenging a criminal conviction and death sentence comports with due process a…
23-5986 Francisco Rodriquez Ruiz, Jr. v. Jordan Wierenga Seventh Circuit 2023-11-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights dismissal district-court due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance pleadings procedural-default standing Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's civil rights claims against defendants without properly considering the factual allegation…
23-5970 Jerry S. Wilson v. Michael G. Gierach, Warden Seventh Circuit 2023-11-07 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence eyewitness-testimony federal-review habeas habeas-corpus house-v-bell procedural-default reasonable-doubt schlup-v-delo summary-reversal Does the Seventh Circuit's holding conflict with Schlup, 513 U.S. 298, and House v. Bell, 547 U.S. 518 (2006), because it turned on whether the eviden…
23-5972 Barney A. Dunlap v. David Mitchell, Superintendent, Lanesboro Correctional Institution Fourth Circuit 2023-11-07 Denied IFP civil-procedure collateral-estoppel due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdictional-statement notice-of-appeal pro-se pro-se-appellant procedural-default Whether the Court of Appeals' disposition on the notice of appeal issue should be vacated
23-5945 Dana Jovan Johnson v. District Attorney of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2023-11-02 Denied IFP actual-innocence due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-relief procedural-default Whether inadequate assistance of counsel at initial-review collateral proceedings may establish cause for a prisoner's procedural default of a claim o…
23-5913 Julio Rolon v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent circuit-split constitutional-vagueness habeas-corpus johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states procedural-default vagueness-challenge Whether reasonable jurists could debate whether controlling circuit precedent precludes issuance of a certificate of appealability
23-5895 Ryan Rydell Bonner v. Texas Texas 2023-10-26 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure procedural-default speedy-trial standing state-court Speedy and effective adjudication of habeas corpus rights
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
23-5772 Cornel Jackie Drummer v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-10-12 Denied IFP appellate-procedure court-records due-process federal-review habeas-corpus insufficient-evidence meaningful-appeal procedural-default statute-of-limitations tolling Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit err in sustaining the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas' hol…
23-5686 David Calhoun v. United States Third Circuit 2023-10-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 5th-amendment civil-rights counsel-of-choice due-process fifth-amendment government-misconduct harmless-error kotteakos-v-united-states procedural-default sixth-amendment Whether the district court's resolution of the petitioner's Fifth Amendment due process claim was correct, given the government's multiple breaches of…
23-5528 Lahme Perkins v. Laurel Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2023-09-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP cause-and-prejudice habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-facts notice post-conviction-relief procedural-default third-circuit-court Did the Third Circuit Court of Appeals err in failing to grant the certificate of appealability
23-5495 SirMichael Dyess v. California California 2023-08-31 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion ada appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence ineffective-counsel judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct post-conviction-review procedural-default Whether the District Court violated ADA rights under Title II, whether the District Court's procedural and evidentiary rulings constituted an abuse of…
23-5472 Jorge Andrade Rico v. James Robertson, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-detention civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-review habeas-corpus mootness procedural-default solitary-confinement standing Whether administrative prisoners can be placed in solitary confinement units without due process
23-5474 Abder Salim v. Stephen Kennedy, Superintendent, Old Colony Correctional Center First Circuit 2023-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP dna-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health mental-impairment procedural-default successive-petition tolling tolling-doctrine Should the lateness of the habeas petition be excused due to the petitioner's mental health issues and the DNA evidence?
23-5435 Marques Webb v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-review jurisdiction plea-agreement plea-bargaining procedural-default waiver Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Webb's appeal based on the waiver of appeal provisions in his Plea Agreement
23-5368 Larry Scott Reynolds v. Brian Eller, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-default sixth-circuit Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred in denying petitioner a COA?
23A132 Jerry S. Wilson v. Dan Cromwell, Warden Seventh Circuit 2023-08-15 Presumed Complete actual-innocence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence procedural-default reasonable-doubt Whether the actual innocence standard established in Schlup v. Delo requires courts to assess newly discovered evidence by asking whether reasonable j…
23-5348 Julian Breal v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP davis-ruling due-process fifth-amendment motion-to-vacate procedural-default section-2255 united-states-v-davis vagueness vagueness-challenge Whether the Petitioner was denied his due process Fifth Amendment right due to being procedurally defaulted from presenting his vagueness challenge
23-5331 Al Douglas Wordly v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default residual-clause statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine Whether Johnson v. United States, 576 U.S. 591 (2015), establishes 'cause' to excuse procedurally defaulted 28 U.S.C. § 2255 claims that are predicate…
23-5299 Keith Mas Sims, Jr. v. David W. Gray, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP exhaustion-of-state-remedies fair-presentation federal-constitutional-rights habeas-corpus procedural-default speedy-trial Whether a state prisoner has exhausted his federal-law-based claims for purposes of federal habeas review under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 when he has presented…
23-5258 Octavius McLendon v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-violations district-court-jurisdiction federal-inmates federal-prisoners habeas-corpus post-conviction-review procedural-default statutory-interpretation Whether a court of appeals may deny a § 2255 motion on the merits rather than remanding to the district court
23-5155 Jeremiah Lyle VanTassel v. Patricia Thompson, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Third Circuit 2023-07-20 Denied IFP aedpa civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling fraud fraud-upon-court procedural-default prosecutorial-vouching standing time-limits Does fraud upon the court trigger equitable tolling?
23-20 Reza Ahmadi v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-07-06 Denied constitutional-claims exhaustion-doctrine habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance johnson-v-williams judicial-proceedings procedural-default rule-60b supreme-court-precedent trevino-v-thaler Does a court contravene Johnson v. Williams and Trevino v. Thaler when it holds an ineffective assistance claim was unexhausted and procedurally defau…
22-7862 Lazaro Veliz v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP cause-exception circuit-split constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default residual-clause vagueness Whether Johnson v. United States, 576 U.S. 591 (2015), establishes 'cause' to excuse procedurally defaulted 28 U.S.C. § 2255 claims that are predicate…
22-1234 Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. v. Sammie Louis Stokes Fourth Circuit 2023-06-23 Denied Relisted (3) aedpa default-rule federal-appellate-procedure federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-default standard-of-review statutory-interpretation strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Fourth Circuit defied the Supreme Court's remand instruction and circumvented 28 U.S.C. § 2254(e)(2)'s limitations on federal court author…
22-7801 Immanuel Christian Price v. Jeff Macomber, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2023-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-claim counsel-performance due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mixed-representation plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief procedural-default standing Whether the defendant was entitled to effective assistance of counsel during the plea bargaining stage in a mixed form of representation
22-7646 Derek Pelker v. United States Third Circuit 2023-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-process certificate-of-appealability due-process equal-protection federal-government-collusion federalism ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default separation-of-powers Question not identified
22-7577 Lamonte Ealy v. Dylon Radtke, Warden Seventh Circuit 2023-05-17 Denied IFP blockburger-test constitutional-review double-jeopardy multiplicity procedural-default same-elements same-parties state-statute Whether jurist of reason would find it debatable or wrong the District court assessment of Double Jeopardy Multiplicity counts
22-7538 Dominic Souto Diaz v. Randy Irwin, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Forest, et al. Third Circuit 2023-05-12 Denied IFP brady-claim evidence-misrepresentation gateway-claim ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel innocence new-evidence pcra-counsel phone-records procedural-default Did the Court of Appeals err when it ruled Appellant's gateway claim of innocence was not new evidence?
22-7505 Charles Alfred Armajo, Jr. v. Bridget Hill, Attorney General of Wyoming, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default standard-of-review Did the panel of the Tenth Circuit err by improperly deciding the merit of an appeal before the court to justify the denial of a certificate of appeal…
22-7515 Juan Andrade-Moreno v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-05-10 Denied IFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus indigent-defense ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the Supreme Court's decision in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), is unconstitutional under the United States Constitution?
22-7443 Reno v. Ron Broomfield, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-05-02 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights court-of-appeals district-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-review procedural-default supreme-court-precedent Whether the District Court's plain error in finding Claims 37, 86, 93, 100, and 120 were not raised in the first state habeas corpus petition, and its…
22-7416 In Re Ronald Pack 2023-05-01 Denied IFP 2244(d)(1)(B) 2244(d)(2) aedpa-tolling article-i-section-9 circuit-court great-writ habeas-corpus procedural-default statutory-limitations statutory-tolling writ-of-certiorari Does a Federal Court's denial of a State prisoner's right to statutory tolling under 2244(d)(2) or 2244(da)(1)(B) effectively suspend the great writ i…
22-7274 Jorge Galeas, Jr. v. Adam Gibson, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-04-13 Denied IFP 10th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus independent-state-ground procedural-default state-court-decision strickler-v-greene Whether the United States District Court violated the claimant's inalienable rights to due process and equal protection under the law within the meani…
22-7221 Carlotta Susann Kutschenreuter v. Lagreta McClain, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2023-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default sixth-amendment state-post-conviction-procedures Whether Alabama's procedural rules and courts' rulings have denied review of petitioner's Sixth Amendment ineffective assistance of counsel claims, wa…
22-7186 Daniel Ray Mann v. Doug Clark, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-04-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony plain-error plain-error-review procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct vouching Whether the state court's admission of 'vouching' testimony from a police officer expert witness violated the defendant's due process rights under the…
22-7112 Fuhai Li v. United States Third Circuit 2023-03-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction probable-cause procedural-default standard-of-review unconstitutional-search-and-seizure Whether the Court of appeals' decision denying Petitioner's request for a COA is contrary to the decision of this Court
22-7042 Rosa Serrano v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-03-20 Denied IFP actual-innocence federal-habeas procedural-default removal-jurisdiction state-court-proceeding void-conviction whistleblower-act Whether removal of state court proceeding divested state court of jurisdiction to enter a judgment of conviction
22-7036 Michael Lawrence Cassidy v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-17 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default statute-of-limitations If a habeas petitioner seeks to expand a previously granted COA on a petition that was denied for procedural reasons, is it necessary for him to make …
22-7023 Maria Orosco v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas Fifth Circuit 2023-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 appointed-counsel civil-rights due-process federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel notice-of-appeal procedural-default timely-filing Should my writ of certiorari be granted when my appointed attorney failed to file a timely notice of appeal?
22-6951 Zachariah Marcyniuk v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2023-03-07 Denied IFP capital-punishment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-fairness judicial-misconduct peremptory-strikes procedural-default state-officials supervisory-powers Whether cause exists to excuse procedural default when state officials made misleading statements that hindered counsel's compliance with state's proc…
22-6955 Jaime Piero Cole v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-03-07 Denied IFP caldwell-v-mississippi caldwell-violation certificate-of-appealability death-penalty fifth-circuit-ruling ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection procedural-default voir-dire Was the Fifth Circuit's ruling that a court's comments during voir dire cannot give rise to a Caldwell violation erroneous and in tension with rulings…
22-6939 Francisco Flores v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-03-06 Denied IFP appellate-procedure circuit-court constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-appeals federal-review habeas-corpus mailbox-rule procedural-default Whether a state habeas petitioner's pleading was timely filed under the mailbox rule
22-6866 Antonio Rosello v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default residual-clause statutory-interpretation vagueness Whether Johnson v. United States, 576 U.S. 591 (2015), establishes 'cause' to excuse procedurally defaulted 28 U.S.C. § 2255 claims that are predicate…
22-6798 Ronald Jeffrey Prible v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-02-16 Denied Amici (1)IFP brady-claim brady-v-maryland cause circuit-split due-diligence evidence-suppression federal-habeas habeas-corpus procedural-default suppression Whether a defendant must show inability to discover favorable evidence through due diligence to establish 'suppression' under Brady v. Maryland
22-6795 Jacobo Rozo Posso v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-02-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights counsel-performance criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-malpractice notice-of-appeal post-conviction-relief procedural-default right-to-appeal Whether counsel was ineffective for failing to file a notice of appeal when requested
22-6707 Alfred E. Caraffa v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-02-06 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims damages due-process habeas-corpus immunity ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief procedural-default standing state-court-review Whether the federal district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims as unconstitutional acts done within the court's jurisdiction?
22-6688 Danny Richard Rivers v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-02-02 Denied IFP 2254(e)(2) due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-civil-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez-exceptions pinholster procedural-default reversible-error Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals violate due process and/or commit reversable error when it applied PINHOLSTER to bar evidentiary hearing?
22-6528 Charles Jordan v. Trina Davidson Brooks, Sixteenth District Judicial Assistant District Attorney, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-error due-process habeas habeas-corpus misconduct post-trial-plea procedural-default state-misconduct trial-procedure Should the State be allowed to assert procedural default rules to preclude federal habeas review where their efforts of misconduct and IAC caused cons…
22-6501 Michael A. Hagar v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 bracy-v-gramley certificate-of-appealability due-process judicial-misconduct miller-el-v-cockrell procedural-default section-2255 slack-v-mcdaniel speedy-trial Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in not issuing a Certificate of Appealability when the Petitioner met the requirements under 28 U.S.C…
22-6425 Mirwais Mohamadi v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion procedural-default standard-of-review Did The Court Of Appeals Err In Denying A Certificate Of Appealability?
22-6387 Kenakil Gibson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process fair-presentation federal-claim federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jackson-standard procedural-default standing state-court state-court-proceedings Does state prisoner fairly present federal nature of his claim on direct appeal
22-6361 Michael Jason Fetherolf v. Ohio Ohio 2022-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure assignment-of-error certificate-of-appealability due-process exhaustion exhaustion-requirement habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default state-court-proceedings state-court-review Question for review #One
22-6356 Tyler Nees v. Oregon Oregon 2022-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause cross-examination due-process evidence federal-review habeas-corpus hearsay independent-state-ground procedural-default sixth-amendment state-court Whether the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment prohibits the admission of testimonial hearsay evidence without an opportunity for cross-exami…
22-6262 Babubhai Patel v. T. J. Watson, Warden Seventh Circuit 2022-12-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-discretion due-process habeas-corpus martinez-v-ryan newly-discovered-evidence procedural-default procedural-due-process rosemond-v-united-states savings-clause statutory-interpretation Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals abused its discretion
22-6238 David N. Firewalker-Fields v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2022-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-court civil-procedure constitutional-review district-court due-process evidence first-amendment procedural-default withholding-evidence Did the District Court and Court of Appeals err in not granting a certificate of appealability due to a procedural default caused by the Circuit Court…
22-6204 Ronnie L. Famous v. Larry Fuchs, Warden Seventh Circuit 2022-12-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-claims discretionary-review district-court due-process exhaustion-doctrine habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default stay-and-abeyance Whether the district court violated the rule announced in Caines v. Dewac by denying petitioner's motion to stay and abeyance, thereby depriving him o…
22-6184 Jowarski Russell Nedd v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2022-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction circuit-court-jurisdiction due-process fact-finding federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-default statute-of-limitations tolling Whether the decisions of the courts below ought to be summarily reversed and the case remanded to the court of appeals with instructions to remand the…
22-6199 In Re Cornell White 2022-12-01 Denied IFP constitutional-violation eighth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel missouri-supreme-court-rule procedural-default procedural-rule prosecutorial-misconduct second-petition Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in denying the petitioner's application for leave to file a second habeas petition
22-6099 Robert Lewis v. Hoke County, North Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-11-18 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation procedural-default standing Whether Ans Repellee's onmaddatery Response That Fully Riiefed The macs OF The Tesue Subject To Waiver Lohoot Realy Mew Or Vortec Gueerisa May Be The …
22-6091 Brian J. Dorsey v. David Vandergriff, Warden Eighth Circuit 2022-11-17 Denied IFP capital-sentencing certificate-of-appealability evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-of-the-case martinez-v-ryan procedural-default sixth-amendment Whether the law-of-the-case doctrine prohibits a court from changing its previous ruling on the same question later during the course of litigation
22-6001 Medgar Samuel v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-07 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP antiterrorism-act antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act circuit-split district-court federal-courts federal-statute habeas-corpus procedural-default state-courts Whether a State can forfeit the affirmative defense of procedural default
22-5973 Raymond J. Scott v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-11-02 Denied IFP constitutional-violation direct-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default sixth-amendment Can ineffectiveness or incompetence of counsel on direct review result in a Sixth Amendment violation?
22-5953 Robert Lee Swinton v. New York New York 2022-10-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-of-right appellate-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel notice-of-appeal procedural-default right-to-appeal Whether counsel can fail to file a Notice of Appeal after a defendant has shown a desire to appeal
22-5802 Michael Fetherolf v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-10-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP exhaustion exhaustion-doctrine habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-relief procedural-default sixth-circuit-conflict trevino-v-thaler Whether a petitioner is precluded from relying on Martinez/Ryan to overcome a procedurally defaulted IATC claim if he filed an 'initial' petition for …
22-5819 Jose Efrain Vega v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-10-12 Denied IFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-default standard-of-review standing Whether the court of appeals properly denied Petitioner's certificate of appealability?
22-5801 Steven Nelson Murray v. Jerry Howell, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-10-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-trial jury-trial-waiver procedural-default sixth-amendment When a criminal defendant must make a personal decision whether to waive a fundamental constitutional right, does an attorney provide deficient perfor…
22-315 Earnest Eugene Padillow v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2022-10-03 Denied certificate-of-appealability direct-appeal due-process exhaustion-of-remedies habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review procedural-default state-court state-court-hearing witness-opportunity Whether the United States District Court For The Northern District Of Oklahoma and subsequently the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in defaulting…
22-5676 Bernard D. Ellerbe v. Robert May, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2022-09-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability hinton-standard hinton-v-united-states ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan procedural-default strickland-claim strickland-v-washington third-circuit Did the Third Circuit & Delaware District Courts err by denying a Certificate of Appealability seeking to challenge procedural default findings where …
22-5666 Arturo Cano v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez-v-ryan pro-se procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment standing Whether being presented by counsel at the state initial-collateral proceedings is a determinative factor for obtaining an evidentiary hearing before a…
22-5549 Emmanuel Maxime v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-12 Denied IFP 18-usc-924 28-usc-2255 cause-exception circuit-split constitutional-vagueness habeas-corpus johnson-v-united-states procedural-default residual-clause Whether Johnson v. United States, 135 S.Ct. 2551 (2015), establishes 'cause' to excuse procedurally defaulted 28 U.S.C. § 2255 claims that are predica…
22-5545 Clinton Folkes v. Charles Williams, Jr., Warden Fourth Circuit 2022-09-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-jurisdiction direct-appeal indigent-defense ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-misrepresentation procedural-default right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether a criminal defendant's right to counsel on direct appeal attaches throughout the period when the appellate court has jurisdiction over the cas…
22-5519 Kareem J. Stansbury v. Michael Courley, Acting Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Camp Hill, et al. Third Circuit 2022-09-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-justice-system fair-trial federal-constitutional-rights habeas-corpus pro-se-defendant procedural-default sixth-amendment speedy-trial Whether and to what extent the criminal justice system tolerates criminal convictions based off cumulative violations of a pro se defendant's federal …
22-5503 Jose Vargas-Soto v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-09-02 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge direct-appeal due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus johnson-decision procedural-default residual-clause sentencing vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether the doctrine of procedural default bars a court from granting relief to a defendant whose conviction and sentence were predicated on an uncons…
22-5356 Joseph Montrel Bourgeois v. Texas Texas 2022-08-16 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-review double-jeopardy effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default state-court-precedent state-court-review successive-petition supreme-court-precedent Question not identified
22-5263 Jesse Brown v. Eric Armel, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. Third Circuit 2022-08-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review counsel-performance criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion procedural-default standard-of-review Whether the trial court erred in denying the petitioner's legitimate defense theory
22-94 Robert Alan Fratta v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-08-01 Denied Relisted (2) appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure habeas habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-grounds procedural-default rule-60(b) rule-60b Must a habeas petitioner obtain a certificate of appealability to appeal the denial of a Rule 60(b) motion on jurisdictional grounds?
22-5184 Dwayne Stoutamire v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-07-26 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (3)IFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default section-2253 standard-of-review state-court-exhaustion Whether the court of appeals properly applied Section 2253 of the Certificate of Appealability statute
22-5189 Haider Salah Abdulrazzak v. Brent Fluke, Warden, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-civil-procedure federal-habeas-proceedings habeas-corpus judicial-bias judicial-discretion procedural-default rule-60b-motion whether-the-district-court-abused-its-discretion-in-denying-rule-60(b)-motion
22-5158 Bernard J. Battle v. United States District of Columbia 2022-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance legal-nullity plea-bargaining procedural-default sentencing state-law statutory-interpretation Whether a guilty plea obtained in direct contravention of the express provisions of an applicable statute renders the sentence illegal, and consequent…
22-5066 John Cody, aka Bobby Thompson v. Tim McConahay, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-07-11 Denied IFP 6th-amendment actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim debatability-review equal-protection-clause habeas-corpus procedural-default sixth-amendment Whether a certificate of appealability (COA) debatability review under 28 U.S.C. §2253(c)(2) allows a circuit court to deny debatability of a constitu…
22-21 Abdur-Rahim Dib Dubar v. Department of Community Affairs Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-06 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment federal-jurisdiction immunity-waiver procedural-default standing taking-clause takings waiver Was Petitioner's Amended Complaint considered in All Courts?
22-4 Donald G. Karr, Jr. v. Mark R. Sevier, Warden Seventh Circuit 2022-06-30 Denied Response Waived civil-rights counsel-rights davis-hatton-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default sixth-amendment Whether the Davis-Hatton Procedure is unconstitutional as-applied
21-8226 Eric C. Sutherland v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa-statute-of-limitations constitutional-claim habeas-corpus indictment indictment-sufficiency jurisdictional-challenge new-evidence procedural-default schlup-standard schlup-v-delo subject-matter-jurisdiction If an indictment omits an essential element and a prisoner files a §2255 after AEDPA's one-year statute of limitations has passed, in asserting his in…
21-8090 Angelo C. Pearson, II v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-06-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-claim constitutional-claims equitable-remedies equitable-tolling federal-habeas habeas-corpus merits-review plain-error procedural-default state-prisoner Whether 'extraordinary circumstances' are present when a state prisoner's record shows a constitutional error that meets the federal 'plain error' sta…
21-1531 Korry L. Ardell v. Joshua Kaul, Attorney General of Wisconsin Seventh Circuit 2022-06-07 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment free-speech habeas-corpus jury-instructions procedural-default stalking Did the jury instructions deny the defendant his constitutional right to a jury finding beyond a reasonable doubt of all facts necessary for convictio…
21-8036 Jason Slaughter v. Delaware Delaware 2022-06-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights guilty-plea IAD-rights ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default speedy-trial waiver Did petitioner's attorney provide ineffective assistance of counsel sufficient to constitute cause for a procedural default
21-7967 Jairo Hernandez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction procedural-default retroactivity statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction supreme-court-precedent unconstitutional-statute Can a defendant procedurally default a claim that the court lacked jurisdiction to imprison him under an unconstitutional statute?
21-7925 Robert Wallace Smith v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-05-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit procedural-default standing Did the Ninth Circuit err by deciding the merit of an appeal not properly before the court to justify the denial of certificate of appealability
21-7825 Charles Wycuff v. Ed Sheldon, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-amendments due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default sixth-amendment Whether the procedural default creates a miscarriage of justice that denies Petitioner his fundamental rights
21-7783 Reynaldo Aviles v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c3b 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability circuit-split johnson-v-united-states procedural-default section-2255 vagueness-challenge Whether a certificate of appealability may be issued where there is a circuit split
21-7752 William Edward Gray v. Arkansas Arkansas 2022-04-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-proof due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default sixth-amendment Whether trial counsel's failure to properly preserve error for appellate review constituted ineffective assistance
21-7671 Alan E. Strickland v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2022-04-21 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-pleading procedural-default statutory-interpretation timeliness how-does-the-u.s.-court-of-appeals-for-the-10th-circuit-justify-affirming-the-decision-of-the-district-court
21-7645 Alimamy Barrie v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure federal-appeals federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-review plain-error procedural-default re-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines successive-filing Whether an error should be corrected in a motion under Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure Rule 35(a) when the conditions of U.S. v. Olano are met, ev…
21-7509 Jean Carlo Ferreira v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure criminal-statute davis-precedent due-process jury-instruction procedural-default sentencing standing vagueness Whether the Court should address the Circuit Split regarding whether, and under what circumstances, a movant's procedural default can be excused becau…
21-7481 Timothy K. Prince v. Michigan Michigan 2022-03-28 Denied IFP appellate-review evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias michigan-supreme-court neglected-issues pecuniary-interest procedural-default trial-counsel Did the Michigan Supreme Court err in refusing to review claims of judicial bias, ineffective assistance of trial and appellate counsel
21-7411 Richard E. Platt v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default slack-standard slack-v-mcdaniel standard-of-review Whether the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying the certificate of appealability pursuant to Slack v. McDaniel, 529 U.S. 473, 120 S.Ct. 159…
21-7339 Robert Donald Gordon v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-jurisdiction constitutional-limits due-process federal-state-powers fifth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-counsel jurisdiction procedural-default standing Did the courts act outside of their jurisdictions?
21-7343 Harry Hueston v. United States Second Circuit 2022-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-discretion legal-remedy procedural-default timeliness Whether it was error for the Second Circuit to deny Huestion the right to file an appeal or COA when timeliness was the result of facts beyond his con…
21-7233 William Sardinas v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-01 Denied IFP attempted-hobbs-act-robbery certificate-of-appealability circuit-split constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence crimes-of-violence hobbs-act johnson-v-united-states procedural-default united-states-v-taylor Whether attempted Hobbs Act robbery is a crime of violence
21-7203 Hamid Michael Hejazi v. Michael Schwab Oregon 2022-02-25 Dismissed IFP adverse-judgment appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure court-dismissal due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirements procedural-default service-of-notice service-of-process standing Was it justified for the appellate commissioner to dismiss Petitioner's appeal
21-7198 Remel Ahart v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2022-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP and whether Massachusetts's appellate review prov appellate-review collateral-review criminal-procedure equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel postconviction-review procedural-default sixth-amendment When a court issues a procedural ruling not to extend the benefits of a new rule collaterally to those who did not preserve their claim, does the Sixt…
21-7200 John L. Jacques v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2022-02-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process electronically-stored-information ineffective-assistance legal-assistance legal-representation postconviction postconviction-relief procedural-default rule-of-completeness standing Is it sufficient reason for failing to raise new issues in a postconviction motion after first appeal that were not already litigated
21-7053 Iramm Wright v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-law constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states procedural-default statutory-interpretation vagueness-doctrine Whether a movant's procedural default may be excused due to a constitutional vagueness challenge not reasonably available prior to Johnson v. United S…
21-1070 Gabriela Gonzalez v. Harvey Roney, et al. Arizona 2022-02-02 Denied Response Waived administrative-law appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights court-findings due-diligence due-process judicial-error material-fact procedural-default standing Whether the Arizona Appellate Court erred in its findings regarding material facts, procedural default, due diligence, and the possibility of a cure b…
21-7033 Oscar Alvarado v. Eric Tice, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset, et al. Third Circuit 2022-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review co-defendant-statement confrontation-clause harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the Sixth Amendment Confrontation Clause was violated
21-6959 Kenneth J. Cox v. Ed Caley, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP AEDPA constitutional-rights federal-law jurisdiction procedural-default representation-right SAOC-elements sentence-enhancement sentence-enhancers state-court-judgment state-prisoner state-prisoners-claim Whether the jurisdiction of this court is invoked under 28-U.S.C.-1257(a)
21-6869 Edward Oberwise v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-01-14 Denied IFP actual-innocence certiorari constitutional-review due-process habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief procedural-default state-court state-court-procedure successive-petition Should the Court use its power to grant certiorari to a noncapital state court defendant who has no other available forum to raise a compelling claim …
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
21-6779 Troy Allen Hite v. Michigan Michigan 2022-01-07 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-violation criminal-procedure critical-stage due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel michigan-state-courts procedural-default right-to-counsel Is-certiorari-appropriate-where-Michigan-state-courts-refused-to-address-petitioner's-denial-of-his-constitutional-right-to-counsel
21-6752 Franklin McPherson v. William Keyser, Jr., Superintendent, Sullivan Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2022-01-04 Denied IFP AEDPA-deference cause-and-prejudice circuit-split de-novo-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default Does de novo review or AEDPA deference apply when a habeas petitioner advances a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel as cause to excuse a proce…
21-6748 Jose Luis Wong v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-30 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-split constitutional-vagueness crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-courts habeas-corpus hobbs-act procedural-default vagueness-doctrine Whether attempted Hobbs Act robbery is a crime of violence
21-938 Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. v. Sammie Louis Stokes Fourth Circuit 2021-12-23 GVR Relisted (2) capital-punishment fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation-evidence prejudice-analysis procedural-default strategic-decision strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Fourth Circuit violated Strickland v. Washington in its prejudice analysis
21-6698 In Re Carlton West II 2021-12-22 Denied IFP due-process equitable-rule equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule prisoner-rights procedural-default standing trevino-precedent When and where can prisoners use the equitable rule announced in Martinez v. Ryan and Trevino v. Thaler?
21-6697 Melvin Walker v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP anti-terrorism-and-death-penalty-act civil-procedure court-jurisdiction district-court-authority docket-modification due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-default statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation Did Congress, with the enactment of 28 U.S.C. § 2255 and the AEDPA, provide District Courts with unquestionable authority to manage their own docket a…
21-6667 Thomas Orville Bastian v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-review constitutional-protections due-process fifth-amendment interrogation-rights procedural-default right-to-counsel shackling waiver-of-counsel Whether state courts denied Bastian the constitutional protections due to him under the Fifth Amendment by finding that he had voluntarily waived the …
21-862 Samuel Hartman v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2021-12-10 Denied Response Waived §2254-litigation 28-usc-2254 circuit-split comity comity-doctrine deference federal-habeas procedural-default state-court-deference state-post-conviction Whether the majority of circuits are correct that comity prevents Federal courts in proceedings under 28 U.S.C. 2254 from overturning legal conclusion…
21-6541 Jesus Corona v. James Hill, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure habeas-corpus preliminary-hearing presumption-of-vindictiveness prima-facie-case procedural-default prosecutorial-discretion sentencing vindictive-prosecution Does a criminal defendant state a prima facie case of vindictive prosecution, triggering a presumption of vindictiveness, when the day after he succee…
21-785 Richard Riccardi v. United States Second Circuit 2021-11-29 Denied Response Waived burden-of-establishing-exception collateral-review legal-theory procedural-default retroactive-effect substantive-change substantive-change-of-law supreme-court-precedent yates-v-united-states Whether the exception to the procedural default rule of Yates v United States, 354 U.S. 298 (1957) applies
21-780 Ewin Oscar Martinez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-24 Denied Response Waived 18-usc-2119 actual-innocence carjacking carjacking-statute crime-of-violence criminal-procedure habeas-corpus procedural-default residual-clause Whether a person violates the federal carjacking statute, 18 U.S.C. § 2119, by taking a motor vehicle not in the presence of its owner and without any…
21-6357 Kenneth Roshaun Reid v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-11-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process fair-sentencing-act federal-sentencing habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel jurisdiction procedural-default retroactivity sentencing Whether the district court erred in denying Mr. Reid a fair hearing for resentencing and failing to bring him back to court for the application of the…
21-6374 Howard Paul Guidry v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-11-23 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause confrontation-rights exculpatory-evidence fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default racial-discrimination Whether the Fifth Circuit improperly addressed the merits of the habeas claims
21-754 Travis Levi Parrott v. Murray Tatum, Warden Georgia 2021-11-22 Denied Response Waived appeal-denial certificate-of-appealability certificate-of-probable-cause constitutional-right effective-assistance-of-counsel extraneous-evidence georgia-supreme-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-convictions procedural-default Whether the Georgia Supreme Court Erred in Denying Mr. Parrott's Application for Certificate of Probable Cause to Appeal the Denial of His Petition fo…
21-6283 Jamie Joe Dulus v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-113a3 assault-with-dangerous-weapon certificate-of-appealability circuit-split collateral-review federal-assault-with-dangerous-weapon jurisdictional-claim mandatory-minimum-sentence procedural-default violent-physical-force Whether the Circuits have interpreted the actus reus of assault with a dangerous weapon too narrowly and against its plain language by requiring viole…
21-6254 Deante Blackman v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924(c) aiding-and-abetting circuit-precedent crime-of-violence habeas-corpus overruling-precedent procedural-default witness-murder Whether cause exists to excuse a habeas petitioner's procedural default
21-6171 Carlos Granda v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-03 Denied IFP 18-usc-924c3b circuit-split constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure harmless-error harmless-error-review johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states procedural-default Whether the Court should resolve the three-way circuit split regarding whether, and under what circumstances, a movant's procedural default may be exc…
21-6088 George Brass v. Aaron D. Ford, Attorney General of Nevada, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-26 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process free-speech habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-default standing state-court takings Whether reasonable jurists would find the rulings as to the issues related to the withdrawal of claims and related issues debatable of wrong
21-6052 Lawrence Eliot Mattison v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-10-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-circuit administrative-exhaustion administrative-law appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default standing tort tort-claim Whether the 4th Circuit Appellate court may condone or ignore a tort claim that lacked Administrative-exhaustion
21-5964 Robert L. Kelly v. Garrett Laney, Superintendent, Oregon State Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2021-10-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights court-access due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus procedural-default standing state-procedural-requirements Whether the Court should issue a grant of certiorari, vacatur, and remand
21-5972 Alfredo Camargo v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-split federal-court federal-habeas habeas-corpus procedural-decision procedural-default reasoned-decision substantial-claim Whether a certificate of appealability should issue as a matter of course
21-5925 Denworth Davidson v. Thomas Griffin, Superintendent, Green Haven Correctional Facility, et al. Second Circuit 2021-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner has shown a constitutional violation
21-5887 Miguel Neil v. Jay Forshey, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-10-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review case-law constitutional-violation due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel judicial-discretion procedural-default Whether a lower federal court violates due process when it ignores a petitioner's appropriately cited case law in support that appellate counsel was i…
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…
21-5783 Brian D. Smith v. Montana Montana 2021-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-procedure critical-stage due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal post-conviction procedural-default right-to-counsel sentencing Is a motion to withdraw guilty plea considered a 'critical stage' requiring the assistance of counsel?
21-5700 Stanley Renard Tilley, Sr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence capital-case forensic-pathology habeas-corpus herrera-standard ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default schlup-standard strickland-standard actual-innocence,ineffective-assistance-of-counsel,capital-case,forensic-pathology,procedural-default,habeas-corpus
21-5552 Brian Green v. Clinton Perry, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-01 Denied IFP constitutional-violation fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jury-selection procedural-default sixth-amendment warrantless-search warrantless-search-and-seizure Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in holding that no constitutional violations in Green's trial
21-5476 In Re William Barret Slade, II 2021-08-25 Denied IFP access-to-courts due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-relief procedural-default sixth-amendment Whether the Alabama state courts and the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in refusing to apply the Supreme Court's rule in Martinez v. Ryan
21-5447 Nicholas Edwards v. Derek Oberlander, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Forest, et al. Third Circuit 2021-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP compulsory-process criminal-procedure due-process identification-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default sixth-amendment Whether the U.S. Court of Appeal erred in not finding petitioner was not prejudiced by trial counsel's failure
21-107 Edward Thomas Kendrick, III v. Mike Parris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-07-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) actual-innocence constitutional-review constitutional-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Was counsel's performance deficient, and did the courts below apply the right standard?
21-5218 Courtney Robinson v. Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-27 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review manifest-injustice procedural-default Whether the petitioner was denied the same review of the game law that was applied to a similarly situated defendant by the state district court of ap…
21-5120 Kent Taylor v. Steven Otero California 2021-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-conviction due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default standing state-court-interpretation statute-of-limitations takings Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims
21-5103 Duane Yates v. Patty Wachtendorf, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-07-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence attorney-misconduct equitable-tolling habeas-corpus holland-v-florida ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdictional-deadline post-conviction-relief post-conviction-remedy procedural-default Whether, in light of Petitioner's compelling case of actual innocence, and the state post-conviction attorney's express lies about two missed deadline…
20-8449 Brian Keith Gorham v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-06-30 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus impartial-jury ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-bias jury-selection procedural-default sixth-amendment trial-procedure Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in finding no prejudice from the bias implied by an unqualified juror being seated on Gorham's jury, the court's abuse…
20-8377 Herbert Garfield Gardner v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-06-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP cause-and-prejudice civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process external-interference habeas habeas-corpus procedural-default standing statute-of-limitations Whether state trial court's 'external interference' constitutes rare and extraordinary circumstance sufficient to excuse statute of limitations time-b…
20-8360 Rafael Verdejo Ruiz v. Derek Edge, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-06-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel military-appeal military-appeals procedural-default subject-matter-jurisdiction Was military appellate court obligated to accept late ineffective assistance of counsel claim
20-8337 Noe Torres v. Dwayne Santistevan, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-claims court-rules criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process extension-of-filing-period habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-misconduct media-coverage procedural-default state-court Appealability of habeas corpus denial
20-8246 Tony Ray King v. Stanley Payne, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability defaulted-claim ground-for-relief habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-trevino-exception procedural-default strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether a petitioner must meet the Strickland v. Washington standard when presenting a defaulted claim under the Martinez-Trevino exception or only ne…
20-1669 Robert Gene Will, II v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-06-01 Denied Relisted (2) discovery fair-trial federal-habeas federal-law gonzalez-v-crosby habeas-corpus judicial-procedure merits procedural-default rule-60(b) Whether a habeas petitioner makes a valid Rule 60(b) motion by arguing that, due to an incorrect procedural-default ruling, the district court (1) onl…
20-8103 Sayda Powery Orellana and Manuel Porras Salas v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure forfeiture jury-instructions plain-error procedural-default waiver Whether agreement to a set of joint jury instructions is a waiver or forfeiture
20-1621 Antonia Lerner v. Citigroup Third Circuit 2021-05-20 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure judicial-review legal-standard non-movant nonmovant opposition procedural-default standard-of-review waiver Whether the proper standard of review and correct legal standard are waived from appellate review merely because the nonmovant did not file an opposit…
20-8040 Michael N. Kelsey v. New York New York 2021-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-counsel judicial-neutrality plea-bargaining procedural-default sentencing trial-rights Are New York's procedural rules insufficiently hospitable to constitutional claims?
20-8025 Thomas L. Fast v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review cold-war cold-war-claims conflict-of-holdings due-process extraordinary-miscarriage-of-justice federal-officer procedural-default structural-due-process structural-rights Was the appellate court's orders supporting the lower court's decision's conflict with Supreme Court and appellate court's holdings violate the Petiti…
20-8026 Jesus Manuel Moran v. Thomas E. Higgins Ninth Circuit 2021-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa civil-procedure federal-claims habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance injury procedural-default proximate-cause state-court-review state-courts When a lawyer fails to give the State Courts the opportunity to review federal claims, is this failure the proximate cause of the injury as a matter o…
20-8031 Major Hudson, III v. Rick Whitten, Warden Tenth Circuit 2021-05-14 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lesser-included-offense procedural-default rule-60 Whether a misdemeanor vs. felony distinction is an extraordinary circumstance under Rule 60(b)(6)
20-8016 Rico Blackwell v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-13 Denied IFP actual-innocence collateral-attack-waiver criminal-procedure davis-challenge federal-sentencing habeas-corpus plea-bargaining procedural-default residual-clause section-924c statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum Whether a defendant can ever show cause and prejudice to avoid the procedural default bar on a meritorious Davis challenge to a § 924(c) conviction?
20-7999 David James Lola v. Miami Herald, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-12 Denied IFP access-to-courts appellate-rights civil-procedure constitutional-access court-procedure dismissal in-forma-pauperis judicial-review national-emergency post-conviction-relief procedural-default reconsideration Whether the clerk's entry of dismissal for failure to prosecute should be set aside and the appellant permitted to proceed to rule on the in forma pau…
20-7916 Shomas T. Winston v. Gary A. Boughton, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-05-03 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-claims due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default schlup-v-delo Whether a petitioner should be allowed to assert a claim of actual innocence as a gateway to overcome procedurally defaulted constitutional claims wit…
20-1496 Ali Mohamed Elatrache v. Shane Jackson, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-04-26 Denied Response Waived capital-murder constitutional-rights due-process first-degree-murder jury-instructions jury-trial lesser-included-offenses procedural-default trial-by-jury whether-petitioner-was-deprived-of-due-process-and-jury-trial
20-7688 Roderick B. Lewis v. Florida Florida 2021-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus independent-state-ground procedural-default standing state-court Can a state's procedural default rule preclude a federal court from reviewing a defendant's federal constitutional claims?
20-7691 Ernest Donald Washington v. Tammy Williams, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-04-08 Denied IFP appeal civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jurisdiction ninth-circuit procedural-default Whether the district court lacked subject matter jurisdiction to try the petitioner
20-7685 Terrance Heard v. Grady Perry, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-04-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP ATC-claim constitutional-claim district-court-review district-courts factual-development ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-standard Martinez-v-Ryan Miller-El-Cockrell-standard procedural-default Whether the Tennessee District Courts are correctly considering whether a procedurally defaulted ATC claim is substantial, having merit, presented und…
20-7635 Lisa Biron v. United States First Circuit 2021-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP conviction-review criminal-procedure federal-criminal-statute federal-habeas fundamental-defect gonzalez-v-crosby intent-element procedural-default rule-60(b) rule-60b section-2255 state-prisoner When the trial court's misunderstanding or the mental intent element of a federal criminal statute becomes apparent in a conclusory footnote in its de…
20-7636 Marcus Anthony Barnes v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit certificate-of-appealability criminal-justice false-information false-testimony government-misconduct ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jackson-v-virginia judicial-proceedings motion-to-vacate procedural-default Whether and to the extent the criminal justice system tolerates false testimony and false information relied upon by the United States Court of Appeal…
20-7572 Jim Bass Holden v. Nevada, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment appellate-review circuit-split conflict-of-laws constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion procedural-default right-to-counsel Whether the use of a Brecon ment / wmnte wukecwautt Seven s\\k ¢ QQ violates the Sixth Amendment right to counsel
20-7544 Demian Dominguez, aka Demain Dominguez v. Brian E. Williams, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP cause-of-death certificate-of-appealability effective-counsel ninth-circuit prejudice procedural-default reasonable-jurists Whether the Ninth Circuit's order denying a certificate of appealability was clearly erroneous
20-7558 Kesha S. Packer v. Wisconsin Department of Corrections Seventh Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-review civil-procedure district-court excusable-neglect jurisdiction notice-of-appeal procedural-default standing Whether the United States Court of Appeals has jurisdiction to hear the plaintiff's appeal?
20-7498 Jose Federico Almeida-Olivas v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability dahda-v-united-states eighth-circuit federal-law habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief procedural-default standing Whether the court properly denied COA
20-7480 Mickey Thomas v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Eighth Circuit 2021-03-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure day-v-mcdonough federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan procedural-default sua-sponte wood-v-milyard Whether a court of appeals can sua sponte raise a habeas defense that a state abandons on appeal
20-7469 Joaquin Hernandez-Ayala v. Rene Baker, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP cause-and-prejudice certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus impeachment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan ninth-circuit procedural-default Whether the Ninth Circuit clearly erred in denying Hernandez-Ayala's request for a certificate of appealability
20-7439 Michael Luis Suarez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924(c) actual-innocence categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process plea-bargaining predicate-offense procedural-default sentencing-guidelines statutory-enhancement Whether a defendant may be enhanced under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) where he entered a plea of guilty to an offense that no longer qualifies as a predicate o…
20-1233 Johnny Gatewood v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-03-08 Denied Amici (2) cause-exception circuit-precedent due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-cause petitioner-rights procedural-default supreme-court-precedent Whether cause exists to excuse a habeas petitioner's procedural default when near-unanimous circuit precedent foreclosed the petitioner's claim
20-7331 Kevin L. Martin v. Frank Vanihel, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-claim district-court due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-care prison-conditions procedural-default Whether the state failed to provide the inmate with the necessary medical care and treatment as required, violating his constitutional rights
20-7337 Kevin Thurlow v. Michelle Edmark, Warden First Circuit 2021-03-05 Denied IFP conflict-of-interest constitutional-violation counsel-representation ineffective-assistance procedural-default sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-conflict-free-clause strickland-standard witness-testimony Did the petitioner's counsel provide ineffective assistance by failing to call, interview, and subpoena a witness?
20-1197 Eugene Milton Clemons, II v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-01 Denied Amici (4) atkins-v-virginia circuit-split civil-rights court-clerk-error due-process equitable-tolling filing-deadline habeas-corpus intellectual-disability post-conviction-review procedural-default standing Whether the availability of equitable tolling requires consideration of the totality of the circumstances
20-7283 John Larvie v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-violation double-jeopardy due-process federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-discretion plea-bargaining procedural-default standing state-court-reasoning tribal-sovereignty Whether tribal sovereignty can be ignored and a defendant punished despite not being convicted tribally
20-7176 Jeffrey S. Davis v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-02-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP arizona-law certificate-of-appealability court-of-appeals district-court habeas-petition judicial-review legal-error procedural-default Did the Court of Appeals err by not addressing the certified questions from the district court?
20-7136 James Robert Stanford v. Daniel Paramo, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-02-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review miller-el-v-cockrell miller-v-cockrell pro-se pro-se-litigant procedural-default Does the requisite 'substantial showing' require pro-se-litigants to re-submit supporting-documents
20-7147 Joe Angel Acosta, III v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-02-12 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions post-conviction-relief procedural-default sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the petitioner's constitutional and statutory rights were violated in the proceedings leading to his conviction and sentence
20-7025 Derrick Michael Allen, Jr. v. Orlando Hudson, Jr. Fourth Circuit 2021-02-04 Dismissed IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus immunity monetary-relief post-conviction-relief procedural-default standing state-court-review Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's order dismissing Petitioner's complaint pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 1915 without d…
20-7030 Devaron Antoine Love v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-02-03 Denied IFP 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence criminal-procedure federal-habeas habeas-corpus judicial-review new-decision procedural-default section-2255 unlawful-conduct Whether a movant under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 can show actual-innocence to overcome a procedural-default
20-7000 Felix Brown v. Keith Foley, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-01-29 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence cause-and-prejudice constitutional-claim equity federal-civil-procedure habeas-corpus pro-se-petition procedural-default rule-60 Does the United States Supreme Court require a showing of actual innocence to pursue an independent action in equity under Fed. Civ. Proc. R. 60(d)(J)…
20-1009 David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry v. David Martinez Ramirez Ninth Circuit 2021-01-27 Judgment Issued Amici (13)Relisted (3) aedpa evidentiary-development federal-court-review federal-review habeas-corpus martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-counsel procedural-default Whether AEDPA's bar on evidentiary development under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(e)(2) applies to a federal court's merits review of a claim when a court excuses…
20-6929 Stephen Hugueley v. Tony Mays, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-01-25 Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan procedural-default sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington Does the Martinez exception apply when post-conviction counsel's deficient representation resulted in a procedural default?
20-975 Freddie Owens v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-01-22 Denied certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim constitutional-rights federal-appeals-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-standard martinez-v-ryan procedural-default Whether the standard for determining if an underlying constitutional claim is 'substantial' under Martinez v. Ryan is the same as the standard for obt…
20-6793 Curtis Parks v. Willis Chapman, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus post-conviction procedural-default structural-error Whether a petitioner in post-conviction proceedings asserting a procedurally defaulted structural error can demonstrate prejudice by showing that the …
20-6772 Christopher J. Spreitz v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry Ninth Circuit 2021-01-05 Denied IFP cognitive-impairment ineffective-assistance martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan mitigation-evidence post-conviction-relief procedural-default statutory-mitigating-factor trial-counsel When must the court of appeals remand to a court of first instance for application of this Court's intervening decision in Martinez v. Ryan, 566 U.S. …
20-6681 Robert Wright v. Georgia Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-exhaustion administrative-remedies civil-procedure civil-rights due-process exhaustion-requirement prison-grievance prisoner-litigation pro-se-litigation procedural-default standing Was Wright required to exhaust state remedies under the PLRA?
20-6630 Alejandro S. Estrada v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence administrative-law agency-decision certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-review jurisdictional-challenge procedural-default procedural-error sentencing Whether the lower courts should be sanctioned for protecting the unconstitutional imposition of void and obsolete statute
20-6570 Brandon Bernard v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-08 Denied IFP brady-disclosure brady-violation death-penalty gang-affiliation government-misconduct napue-claim napue-violation procedural-default section-2255 successive-habeas successive-petition Where government action prevented Petitioner from bringing his claims under Brady and Napue in his initial § 2255 motion, should a second-in-time moti…
20-6549 Evatrus Derjuan Moss v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-12-07 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 constitutional-review exclusionary-provision habeas-corpus martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan post-conviction post-conviction-relief procedural-default statutory-interpretation treving-v-thaler Does a denial of counsel on an initial state post-conviction habeas corpus application activate the exclusionary provision of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(1)(B…
20-6535 Levi Ruffin v. United States District of Columbia 2020-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appointment-of-counsel civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process federal-review habeas-corpus indigent-representation judicial-interpretation procedural-default standing state-court Whether the petitioner has a due process right to have counsel appointed to represent them in a civil matter due to their inability to afford an attor…
20-6413 Maxine Shepard v. Department of Veterans Affairs, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-11-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure good-cause pro-se-litigant procedural-default service-of-process standing Whether the COA improperly held in conflict with other courts that the Petitioner did not show good cause to excuse procedural default and allow for a…
20-6395 Howard Griffith v. New York New York 2020-11-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP burden-of-proof coram-nobis defense-counsel-discovery due-process ny-correction-law procedural-default severability sex-offender-registration sora-modification Whether the documents that a defense counsel is entitled to have access to prior to an initial Sex Offender Registry hearing also refer to the documen…
20-6370 David Merritt v. Robert May, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2020-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule procedural-default rule-60 substantial-claim wrongful-conviction Did the Third Circuit's denial of a Rule 60(b)(6) motion constitute clear error in declining to issue a certificate of appealability
20-6322 George A. Christian v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2020-11-13 Dismissed IFP constitutional-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez martinez-standard post-conviction-relief procedural-default state-denial Whether the State's denial of the post-conviction relief establish cause for any procedural default to be excused and considered on this issue anew in…
20-6275 William Ford v. Mike Parris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-11-12 Denied IFP burden-of-proof ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-post-conviction-counsel post-conviction-counsel prejudice-prong procedural-default self-defense sufficiency-of-the-evidence trial-counsel Would jurist of reason disagree and find debatable the correctness of the Sixth and District Courts' finding of effective assistance of counsel
20-6276 Arek R. Fressadi v. Arizona, et al. Arizona 2020-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof constitutional-violations court-rules due-process equal-protection first-amendment ineffective-assistance judicial-misconduct judicial-review oath-of-office procedural-default self-defense state-law supreme-court trial-counsel venue-transfer venue-transfer 20-6275" Would a jurist of reason find debatable the correc Whether failures to apply mandatory language of the U.S. Constitution, U.S. Supreme Court rulings, state law, and court rules are violations of the Du…
20-6287 In Re Antonio Akel 2020-11-12 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process exhaustion-of-remedies federal-court-review habeas-corpus mandamus procedural-default Whether the United States and a pattern of utilizing an erroneous certificate of appealability is the only appropriate remedy, where petitioners have …
20-597 Wisdom Jeffery v. Nathan Brooks, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2020-11-05 Denied Response Waived actual-innocence aedpa constitutional-error deference federal-courts habeas-corpus procedural-default Whether a state court's decision concerning a constitutional error should receive deference under AEDPA's 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) within the context of de…
20-6201 Anthony Thomas v. Victor Calloway, Warden Seventh Circuit 2020-11-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process federal-constitutional-law habeas habeas-corpus perjury procedural-default state-law Should a certificate of appealability have issued?
20-6135 Justin Mertis Barber v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit federal-statute habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default statute-of-limitations Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying Barber's motion for leave to file a motion for a certificate of appealability
20-6121 Jesus Adam Lizarraga v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability eighth-circuit guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel massaro-precedent massaro-v-united-states procedural-default Whether the Eight Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability
20-6096 Dieuseul Brown v. Sonja Nicklaus, Warden Seventh Circuit 2020-10-22 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process first-degree-murder independent-and-adequate-state-grounds jury-finding jury-instructions procedural-default second-degree-murder state-grounds Whether the Petitioner's claim is Procedurally-Defaulted
20-6052 Donald R. Conway v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review case-law-conflict circuit-court-precedent constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection procedural-default Did the Court of Appeals err or abuse its discretion
20-6016 George A. Christian v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2020-10-14 Dismissed IFP civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez martinez-rule post-conviction-relief procedural-default standing state-denial Whether the State's denial of the post-conviction relief establish cause for any procedural default to be excused and considered on this issue anew in…
20-5802 Timothy W. Saunders v. Terry Raybon, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-25 Denied IFP due-process exhausted-claim exhaustion federal-habeas federal-habeas-review martinez-v-ryan merits-adjudication post-conviction post-conviction-relief procedural-default state-court-deference state-court-proceedings What deference, if any, is due to a state court decision on an exhausted post-conviction claim when the decision arises from a system that does not gi…
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?
20-5698 Adrian Hernandez v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-09-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fair-trial federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection post-conviction procedural-default racial-bias standing state-court whether-a-petitioner-was-denied-a-fair-trial-when-a-juror-stated-she-could-not-be-impartial
20-5647 Robert William Moynihan v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-injustice constitutional-manifest-injustice exceptional-circumstances federal-courts judicial-power legal-remedy procedural-default standing Whether the petitioner, as a matter of law, who has presented clear and convincing evidence demonstrating a constitutional injustice, is entitled to a…
20-5611 Andy Buxton v. Josh Shapiro, Attorney General of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2020-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process federal-appeal habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance legal-representation post-conviction-relief procedural-default Whether claims of ineffective assistance of post-conviction counsel could serve as cause to excuse the procedural default of a claim of trial counsel'…
20-5592 Christopher Lipsey, Jr. v. D. Goree, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process federal-review frivolous habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance malicious procedural-default standing state-court-review Whether the district court's dismissal of a complaint as frivolous, malicious, or for failure to state a claim constitutes a strike under 28 U.S.C. § …
20-5570 Richard Bernard Moore v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-09-02 Denied Amici (2)IFP adjudicated-on-the-merits fair-presentation fair-presentation-doctrine habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan new-evidence procedural-default state-post-conviction-review In determining whether a claim has been fairly presented to, and 'adjudicated on the merits' by, the state courts for § 2254(d) purposes, must a feder…
20-5574 Jose Luis Torres v. Jamey Luther, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Smithfield, et al. Third Circuit 2020-09-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-provisions deficient-performance due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance multiplicious-offenses plea-agreement plea-bargaining procedural-default Whether the lower courts erred in denying habeas corpus relief despite the petitioner's claims of ineffective assistance of counsel, multiplicious off…
20-5510 Robert L. Pernell, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-08-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 direct-appeal equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus jurisdictional-requirements procedural-default supreme-court-precedent Whether the governing provisions in the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals precedent case law, In re Goddard, has unlawfully created an arbitrary or ambi…
20-5465 In Re Francisco Felix 2020-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-3231 actual-innocence cause-and-prejudice constitutional-violations criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions procedural-default subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the government's defense, jury instructions, and denial of counsel were prejudicial
20-5492 Ray Lamar Johnston v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-25 Denied IFP appellate-review caldwell-v-mississippi capital-punishment constitutional-claims death-penalty due-process habeas-corpus hurst-v-florida ineffective-assistance jury-instructions procedural-default Whether the Eleventh Circuit should have remanded or expanded the appeal
20-5445 Jelani Walker v. Ed Sheldon, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure merits-ruling procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct sanctions state-court state-courts Does a defense cause prejudice due to inadequate notice?
20-5385 Judy Harmon v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split constitutional-violations direct-appeal ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdictional-powers procedural-default sister-circuits Whether there appears to be a disparity within the Sister Circuits use of jurisdictional powers and discretion, ruling over Ineffective Assistance of …
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
20-5192 Scott Allan Moser v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-31 Denied IFP appellate-counsel federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel invited-error-doctrine martinez-framework martinez-v-ryan procedural-default sixth-amendment Whether procedurally defaulted claims of ineffective assistance of counsel are excusable under the framework established by Martinez v. Ryan
20-5208 William Monterial Jones v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-07-29 Denied IFP burden-of-proof civil-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence identity identity-evidence procedural-default state-prosecution Whether the State sufficiently proved Petitioner's guilt when no contemporaneous identity evidence existed to link Petitioner as the perpetrator?
20-5187 Thomas Lee Brennan v. Josh Stein, Attorney General of North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2020-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-suppress post-conviction-relief procedural-default reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop Whether the trial court erred in denying the defendant's motion for appropriate relief based on ineffective assistance of counsel for failing to file …
20-26 Wesley Ira Purkey v. United States, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-07-15 Denied capital-punishment collateral-review federal-capital-prisoners federal-prisoners ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan post-conviction procedural-default trevino-v-thaler trial-counsel Whether federal capital prisoners whose substantial claims of ineffective assistance of trial counsel were defaulted by ineffective § 2255 counsel may…
19-8835 Billy Joe Wardlow v. Texas Texas 2020-06-26 Denied IFP capital-murder constitutional-rights federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice procedural-default procedural-grounds state-court state-habeas-corpus wiggins-claim Whether in Mr. Wardlow's case to grant certiorari, vacate the decision of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, and remand for reconsideration in the m…
19-8795 Jeremia Joseph Loper v. Nate Knutson, Warden Eighth Circuit 2020-06-23 Denied IFP adversarial-testing appellate-counsel appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel exculpatory-evidence fair-trial ineffective-assistance procedural-default Was Mr. Loper denied the right to a fair trial and the effective-assistance-of-counsel
19-8776 Timothy W. Hatter v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2020-06-22 Denied IFP appellate-rights civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process federal-procedures habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief procedural-default standing state-court-review untimely-filing Whether the court can address the petitioner's habeas petition asking for his APPA rights back when a direct appeal is a fundamental constitutional du…
19-8668 Lemuel Whiteside v. Arkansas Arkansas 2020-06-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aggravated-robbery capital-felony-murder constitutional-rights graham-v-florida juvenile-sentencing life-imprisonment non-homicide-crime procedural-default Whether the trial court erred in instructing the jury that the petitioner could be sentenced to life imprisonment for a non-homicide crime committed a…
19-8545 Duane Blake v. Florida Florida 2020-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-witness jury post-conviction-relief procedural-default Did the state of Florida violate due process by excluding an expert witness for the defense in an attempted murder trial
19-8521 Aaron Daniels v. Jack Kowalski, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP amadeo-v-zant amended-claims habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lesser-included-offense procedural-default sixth-circuit strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Sixth Circuit's reasoning concerning the petitioner's attempt to get new counsel assigned during trial is flawed
19-8529 Darryl Cain v. Randee Rewerts, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus harmless-error ineffective-assistance judicial-review procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility Whether the prosecutor's remarks during rebuttal of injecting personal opinion and vouching for the credibility of a witness
19-8470 Raymond K. Walker v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-right counsel-refusal court-order due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance judicial-review procedural-default right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Refusal of Price Counsel to Comply with U.S.C. 5 Continual request and Court orders to file a brief with allegations of ineffectiveness conceded the c…
19-8472 Wyte Young, Jr. v. Arizona Arizona 2020-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-claims constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus post-conviction-review procedural-default sentencing state-court-procedure Did the federal court violate petitioner's 5th and 8th amendment rights
19-8454 Michael Boykin v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida, Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavit certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure cumulative-evidence declaration hearsay-evidence in-forma-pauperis ineffective-assistance martinez-rule poverty procedural-default redress Whether the petitioner is entitled to proceed in forma pauperis
19-8451 Michael Skinner v. Raymond Madden, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review due-process factual-determination habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-default state-court-decision state-court-review trial-record Is a State Court Decision an Unreasonable Determination of the facts When it Determines That a Claim Was not Sufficiently Developed in the Record for …
19-8413 Troy Pope v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2020-05-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2254 actual-innocence cause-and-prejudice federal-law-application federal-state-comity habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default state-court-decision Whether the Alabama state courts and federal district court unreasonably applied clearly established federal law in denying habeas relief to the petit…
19-8375 Lamarr Robinson v. Connie Horton, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-04-28 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-claim exhaustion exhaustion-doctrine fair-presentation federal-review habeas-corpus incorporation-by-reference procedural-default state-court-remedies Does a prisoner 'fairly present' the substance of his federal habeas corpus claim to the state's highest court when he utilizes a commonly used, unoff…
19-8345 In Re Steven Ciotta 2020-04-23 Dismissed IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule procedural-default retroactive-application retroactivity right-to-counsel Whether review should be granted to correct a U.S. Constitution violation when inferior federal courts have failed to acknowledge a claim alleging ine…
19-8313 Thomas M. Tully v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2020-04-21 Denied IFP actual-innocence constitutional-claim habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default statutory-provisions successive-writ supreme-court-precedent writ-of-certiorari Did the lower courts err in determining Petitioner's reliance on McQuiggin v. Perkins
19-8306 Marcel Nwagu v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-04-19 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure collateral-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default rule-60-motion standard-of-review whether-petitioner-is-entitled-to-rule-60-b-6-relief
19-8257 Eric C. Miller v. Randy Gibbs, Warden Eighth Circuit 2020-04-14 Denied IFP actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-requirements due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus procedural-default successive-petitions supreme-court-precedent time-barred-petition Can the lower courts continue to bypass U.S. Supreme Court law in favor of their self-created rule calling time-barred initial habeas petitions 'adjud…
19-8117 Vincent D. White, Jr. v. Donnie Morgan, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-03-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2254 constitutional-issue due-process exhaustion-doctrine federal-constitutional-issue federal-habeas procedural-default state-courts state-prisoner statutory-interpretation Whether federal courts should exclusively apply 28 U.S.C. § 2254(b) when evaluating State assertions that a State prisoner has failed to properly rais…
19-8118 Wisconsin, ex rel. Joshua M. Wren v. Reed Richardson, Warden Wisconsin 2020-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-rights constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel laches laches-doctrine postconviction-relief procedural-default right-to-appeal When trial counsel acts ineffectiveness in failing to initiate a requested appeal leaves a defendant without appellate counsel, can delays and misstep…
19-8110 DeVinche Javon AlBritton v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2020-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP adequate-state-ground brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process federal-habeas habeas-corpus procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct public-records state-procedural-ground Does the availability in Public Records qualify as an Independent or Adequate State procedural ground to bar a State prisoner's claim of prosecutorial…
19-7894 In Re Charles S. Renchenski 2020-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default statutory-adequacy statutory-interpretation statutory-notice writ-of-certiorari Did the federal court(s) unlawfully suspend the writ of habeas corpus?
19-7877 Tyrone Rogers v. Josie Gastelo, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-03-05 Denied IFP Conflict-counsel Enhanced-sentence In-custody in-custody-determination ineffective-assistance Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel new-trial ninth-circuit-conflict procedural-default Procedural-defaults sentencing-error Sexual-elements Sentencing-error
19-7818 Kristopher Eric Benjamin v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit 2020-02-28 Denied IFP aedpa certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims de-novo-review due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default state-court-deference strickland-v-washington Whether district court required to give deference to state appellate court's finding of historical facts
19-7792 In Re David Lopez 2020-02-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-3231 actual-innocence cause-and-effect-doctrine constitutional-violation criminal-procedure-ineffective-assistance-of-couns ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default structural-error subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the government's defense, jury instructions, and denial of counsel were prejudicial to the defendant
19-1023 Donnie Morgan, Warden v. Vincent D. White, Jr. Sixth Circuit 2020-02-18 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) actual-prejudice cause-and-prejudice circuit-split federal-court-review habeas habeas-corpus habeas-relief ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan procedural-default state-postconviction-counsel Whether a federal court may excuse a procedural default of an ineffective-assistance-of-trial-counsel claim with 'some merit' under Martinez v. Ryan w…
19-7524 In Re Lexter K. Kossie 2020-01-31 Denied IFP 28-U.S.C.-§-2244 28-usc-2244 constitutional-performance due-process habeas-corpus martinez-v-ryan Martinez-v.-Ryan mitigation-investigation procedural-default successive-petitions supreme-court-review trevino-v-thaler Trevino-v.-Thaler trial-counsel Whether the Court's 'equitable' ruling permits Texas prisoners to avoid the successive requirements found at 28 U.S.C. § 2244(a) and (b) regarding pri…
19-7476 Timothy Wayne Kemp v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2020-01-29 Denied Amici (1)IFP brady-rule brady-violation criminal-procedure death-penalty discovery due-process eighth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation mitigation-investigation procedural-default professional-standards Must a court consider prevailing professional norms when determining whether a life history investigation was 'thorough?
19-7461 Derrick Lamar Cheeks v. Alford Joyner Fourth Circuit 2020-01-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process habeas habeas-review jurisdictional-conflict procedural-default state-court supreme-court supreme-court-precedent Question not identified
19-946 William Snowden, Jr. v. Charmaine Bracy, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-01-28 Denied Response Waived actual-innocence aggravated-felony evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default When a habeas corpus Petitioner is innocent of an aggravated felony, has proof of innocence beyond all reasonable doubt and the conviction occurred be…
19-7431 Brandon J. Lofland v. Connie Horton, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus identification-testimony ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jackson-v-virginia jury-trial miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default state-procedural-rules sufficiency-of-evidence Whether a 'mere modicum' of evidence is sufficient to sustain a conviction
19-7398 Andrew James Gibbons v. Nate Knutson, Warden Eighth Circuit 2020-01-24 Denied IFP guilty-plea habeas-corpus habeas-review ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel knaffla-bar mental-illness mental-illness-defense Opsahi-rule procedural-default Spears-rule state-procedural-rule Is petitioner (Gibbons) procedurally defaulted on his claim of ineffective assistance of counsel for failure to investigate a mental illness defense?
19-7353 Enamiden Celestine Okon v. Nate Knutson, Warden Eighth Circuit 2020-01-23 Denied IFP brecht-standard constitutional-error due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review magwood-v-patterson procedural-default sanders-v-united-states standing successive-petition successive-petitions Whether Petitioner filed 'a second or successive' application by re-raising a claim in his second habeas petition that was not fully addressed and/or …
19-7280 David Everett Jones v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP despite Petitioner's diligent efforts to timely f -civil-procedure aedpa aedpa-limitations civil-rights due-process eleventh-circuit equitable-tolling federal-habeas habeas-corpus procedural-default standing state-post-conviction statute-of-limitations timeliness Whether Jones' successful Fla. R. Crim. P. 3.850 motion created a new judgment, sufficient to restart the one-year AEDPA filing deadline, so as to mak…
19-7256 Joseph Eugene Osborne v. Pelicia Hall, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections Fifth Circuit 2020-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-statute-of-limitations civil-procedure civil-rights due-process factual-predicate habeas-corpus procedural-default statute-of-limitations timeliness Do suspicions trigger AEDPA's statute of limitations even if they would be insufficient to state a factual predicate for a claim under AEDPA?
19-851 Manuel Lopez-Castro v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-08 Denied Response Waived actual-innocence constitutional-law criminal-conduct criminal-law habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-precedent precedent procedural-default Does the actual innocence gateway to review of procedurally defaulted habeas claims apply only where new evidence shows the defendant did not commit t…
19-7145 Carlos E. Rodriguez-Milian v. United States First Circuit 2020-01-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP §-2255-motion 2255-appeal appeals-court-discretion certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance pro-se-motions procedural-default procedural-error subject-matter-jurisdiction summary-response Can an appeals court disregard the district court's procedural error and decide a COA application based on the underlying merits?
19-7154 In Re Corey Devon Eaton 2020-01-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence cause-and-prejudice constitutional-infirmity due-process plea-agreement plea-agreement-involuntary plea-waiver procedural-default retroactive-relief safety-valve whether-plea-agreement-involuntary
19-6978 Isaac Naranjo v. Mark Capozza, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. Third Circuit 2019-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurists-of-reason merits notice-of-charges post-conviction-review procedural-default Whether to make a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right a habeas applicant for a C.O.A. need not show that he will prevail on th…
19-6984 Mark A. Perez v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit 2019-12-18 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability federal-habeas-corpus guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-exception post-conviction-relief procedural-default Does Martinez v. Ryan excuse a procedural default in Federal Habeas Corpus proceedings?
19-6995 Richard Alan King v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process faretta-v-california fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice magistrate pro-se-pleading procedural-default remand reversal standard-of-review standing supreme-court-precedent Was the presiding magistrate's analysis so flawed as to warrant this court to reverse and remand so that a correct legal standard may be applied?
19-6950 Christopher Brian Rogers v. Tammatha Soss, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure darden-v-wainwright due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the prosecutor's statements shifting the burden of proof to the defendant during closing arguments constituted prejudicial misconduct under Da…
19-770 Jason C. Underwood v. Shawn Phillips, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-12-16 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-relief ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan procedural-default sixth-amendment sixth-circuit-review trevino-v-thaler Whether the District Court properly interpreted Underwood's Martinez v. Ryan claims when his state post-conviction counsel and trial counsel were inef…
19-6884 Glen B. Clay, aka Glenn B. Clay v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-12-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act district-court-review due-process johnson-v-united-states procedural-default residual-clause sentencing sentencing-enhancement standard-of-proof successive-motion Whether the court of appeals erred in affirming the district court's decision that it could not consider on the merits Mr. Clay's successive motion ba…
19-6738 William Ardas Sarringar v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-11-25 Denied IFP constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-competence procedural-default statute-of-limitations subject-matter-jurisdiction void-judgment When does the fundamental constitutional right to be tried by a court of competent jurisdiction cease to operate as a right, or is forfeited by a part…
19-6747 Josue Emmanuel Martinez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-25 Denied IFP allocution allocution-error appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal due-process harmless-error judicial-review plain-error plain-error-review procedural-default sentencing Whether allocution error is subject to plain error review in the absence of objection?
19-6614 Jerome Marshall v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health miranda-rights miranda-warnings post-conviction-relief procedural-default witness-credibility Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred by denying Petitioner's request for a certificate of appealability
19-6467 Robert G. Pulley v. Daniel Paramo, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-10-31 Denied IFP actual-innocence due-process federal-court federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default state-court Whether the actual innocence exception to the procedural default doctrine applies to excuse the petitioner's failure to raise certain claims in state …
19-6441 In Re Sherman Alexander Lynch 2019-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts actual-innocence brady-violation constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default Whether the District Court erred when it held Lynch was not entitled to the 'fundamental miscarriage of justice' exception under the Carrier standard
19-6392 Jeffrey F. Evers v. Brian Foster, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts first-amendment free-exercise habeas-corpus merits-based-decision new-trial procedural-default public-accommodation religious-freedom same-sex-marriage standing state-licensing Does federal law under A952(c) permit a civil justice system to respond to a No-Merits review of a procedural default that can only be waived as a mer…
19-6311 Adam Douglas Boylen v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights claim-exhaustion constitutional-law due-process foreclosure habeas-corpus ninth-circuit petition-preclusion procedural-default record standing state-court-record takings Whether the court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims based on the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment
19-6323 Michael Taffaro v. New Jersey New Jersey 2019-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process evidence evidence-exclusion ineffective-assistance interests-of-justice judicial-review perjury perjury-claim post-conviction-relief procedural-default procedural-rules standing testimony witness-testimony Whether a decision affirming exclusion of evidence can be correct without addressing the unrefuted assertion that it was excluded on plainly erroneous…
19-6228 Anson Chi v. Andrew Stover, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-10-10 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP attorney-misconduct civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process government-misconduct habeas-corpus judicial-review medical-records post-conviction-review procedural-default torture Was the U.S. Court of Appeals intentionally delaying the mailing of its December 7, 2018 opinion
19-6245 Keenan G. Wilkins, aka Nerrah Brown v. Stanislaus County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-10-10 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-review habeas-corpus immunity ninth-circuit parental-rights pro-se procedural-default standing state-court-procedure statutory-interpretation Whether incarcerated pro se litigants' custody, parental rights, property, and financial matters are at issue in a bona fide civil action seeking acce…
19-6200 Michael Scott Smith v. Florida Florida 2019-10-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence constitutional-claims criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process florida-statutes habeas-corpus indictment jurisdiction lesser-included-offenses post-conviction-relief procedural-default state-court statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation Can a State Court indict an accused on one charge and take him to trial on another in the case of the same crime merely because a theory of prosecutio…
19-6217 Joanne Hall v. Department of Veterans Affairs Fourth Circuit 2019-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights disability due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review medical-care negligence post-conviction-relief procedural-default state-court-dismissal veterans-affairs Whether the Disabled Veteran Petitioner received adequate healthcare at the Veterans Medical Center, including whether treatment, monitoring, and diag…
19-6091 James L. Toney v. Heath Dickson, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-10-01 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review cover-up discovery due-process evidence fair-trial federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance marshals ncic procedural-default standing state-court-review Whether the exposure of cheating by the State of Arkansas and the concomitant collusion to cover up cheating evidence violates due process and the rig…
19-5851 Felix O. Brown Jr. v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio Sixth Circuit 2019-09-06 Denied IFP 2254-habeas cause-and-prejudice cause-prejudice constitutional-claim federal-court federal-procedure federal-procedure-rule habeas-corpus pro-se pro-se-petition procedural-default Is there a federal procedural rule that permits a court to refuse to acknowledge and determine a presentation of cause & prejudice in a habeas petitio…
19-5799 Jesse Lee Coddington v. John Davids, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-rule due-process federal-courts federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance privileges-and-immunities privileges-or-immunities procedural-default state-courts Can Michigan's Court Rule 6.508 (BD) (2) be used to procedurally default a Petitioner's claims from federal habeas adjudication?
19-5824 William Alan Kennedy v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-09-04 Denied IFP 5th-circuit appellate-review certificate-of-appealability deadly-weapon due-process habeas-corpus habeas-relief habeas-relief-review ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default Did the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit err in its denial of a certificate of appealability to review the U.S. District Court's denial of …
19-5746 Howard Griffith v. New York New York 2019-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP cause-and-prejudice criminal-procedure due-process federal-review judicial-discretion miscarriage-of-justice post-conviction-relief procedural-default state-appellate-procedures state-appellate-review Whether the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Appellate Division/Fourth Department, erred in allowing Defendant/Petitioner to take a direct appe…
19-5729 Joseph Flowers v. F. Foulk, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence alibi-evidence brady-violation certificate-of-appealability due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default right-to-counsel Whether Flowers's trial counsel was prejudicially ineffective for failing to present alibi evidence,whether Flowers presented sufficient proof of actu…
19-5705 Leighton Martin Curtis v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure collateral-proceeding counsel-objection due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review magistrate-report martinez-v-ryan procedural-default record-preservation standard-of-review Does Counsel's failure to expand on the record and file pre and post hearing briefs for the petitioner's arguments, and make specific objections to th…
19-5700 Maximo Brito-Tejeda v. United States First Circuit 2019-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP client-request constitutional-right due-process garza-v-idaho habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-malpractice notice-of-appeal procedural-default right-to-appeal sixth-amendment Whether Garza v. Idaho, 139 S. Ct. 738 (2019), applies to petitioner's claim that his defense counsel was ineffective by failing to file a notice of a…
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
19-5679 Maria Aide Delgado v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence burden-of-proof certificate-of-appealability due-process fifth-circuit-court habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review-standard-of-proof ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-review procedural-default schlup-standard standard-of-review Whether there is a sufficient likelihood that rational jurors would have credited the post-conviction evidence and, as a result, would have voted to c…
19-5585 Aljulah Cutts v. New York New York 2019-08-14 Denied IFP 4th-amendment carpenter-retroactivity carpenter-v-united-states cell-site-location-information ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jones-v-united-states procedural-default real-time-tracking retroactivity stored-communications-act warrant-requirements Whether Congress intended for an order under the Stored Communications Act to be sufficient to authorize real time tracking of cell phone generated Ce…
19-5544 Overille Denton Thompson, Jr. v. Texas Texas 2019-08-09 Denied IFP appellate-review barker-default constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process fundamental-right lower-courts presumption-against-waiver procedural-default speedy-trial texas-court-of-criminal-appeals Did the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals err in refusing to grant Mr. Thompson's petition for discretionary review, and therefore, sanction the lower c…
19-5523 Manuel Maldonado Aguilar v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion motion-reconsideration procedural-default procedural-ruling section-2255 standard-of-review successive-petitions Was petitioner's initial § 2255 Motion denied on the merit, for not demostrating or proving deficient performance or prejudice?
19-5492 Brian Jermaine Washington v. Jennifer Saad, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-08-07 Denied IFP aedpa civil-procedure counsel-error diligence extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance limitations-period pro-se procedural-default statute-of-limitations Is it an extraordinary circumstance if counsel filed a motion three months after the AEDPA's limitations period expired?
19-5464 Mark A. Ciavarella, Jr. v. United States Third Circuit 2019-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP effective-assistance-of-counsel honest-services-mail-fraud ineffective-assistance jury-instructions mail-fraud mcdonnell-v-united-states official-act procedural-default statute-of-limitations Whether Petitioner was denied effective assistance of counsel as a result of the deprivation of a viable statute of limitations defense with respect t…
19-5389 Mervin R. Barteaux v. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Ninth Circuit 2019-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP court-error habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan procedural-default trial-counsel trial-court-error writ-of-certiorari Whether where the procedural default of an ineffective assistance of trial counsel claim is excused under Martinez v. Ryan, 566 U.S. 1 (2012), that in…
19-5305 Sherman Alexander Lynch v. Shane Nelson Tenth Circuit 2019-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process fraud-on-the-court fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice habeas-corpus martinez-v-ryan procedural-default schlup-v-delo standing Whether the District Court erred when it held Lynch was not entitled to the 'fundamental miscarriage of justice' exception
19-5356 Rashad Washington v. Nebraska Nebraska 2019-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP black-codes class-v-united-states equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jim-crow procedural-default racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation supremacy-clause territorial-application Was Mr. Washington convicted under a statute that is void on its face?
19-5291 Tyrone Jordan v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof constitutional-review habeas-corpus habeas-proceeding iac-claim ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-standard martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-counsel procedural-default standard-of-review trial-counsel What is the District Court's duty and what standard is the Court to apply to a habeas proceeding presenting a substantial and meritorious IAC claim of…
19-5255 Frank Lobacz v. United States Second Circuit 2019-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-error per-se-ineffectiveness procedural-default second-circuit section-2255 sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington trial-counsel Whether the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred in affirming the lower court's denial of Petitioner's 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petition alleging ine…
19-5229 Saldy Marzan v. CoreCivic Correctional Center, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-07-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review dismissal documentary-evidence due-process federal-courts frivolous habeas-corpus ninth-circuit procedural-default standing Can the hintk Cireuid Courd of App esle dismissed My Lake US Frivelsus With 647. having given Ine opperrutedy 6 presentis documentary evidenze to demo…
19-5170 Phillip J. Rosenblum v. Martin Biter, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-07-16 Denied IFP actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default reopening-deadline state-court-exhaustion successive-petitions Whether a petitioner with an 'actual innocence' claim can be barred from review and treated as if successive petitions that have not been adjudicated …
19-14 In Re Thomas F. Williams 2019-07-01 Denied due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-bias miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default prosecutor-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-by-jury trial-court-issues Whether the federal district & circuit court and the Florida State courts violated the Petitioner's 6th-&-14th-Amendment-rights
19-5018 Gettus Leroy Mintz v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-07-01 Denied IFP actual-innocence brady-violation certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review conviction-standard criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct procedural-default reasonable-doubt Whether the willful and serial denial of attempts to demonstrate actual innocence, by the courts and counsel, presents at a minimum the debatable qual…
18-9807 Robert Wilson, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-06-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 acca-enumerated-offense-clause acca-statute criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 due-process habeas-corpus johnson-relief johnson-v-united-states procedural-default residual-clause sentencing sentencing-court sentencing-guidelines violent-felonies violent-felony Whether a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petitioner must affirmatively prove sentencing court relied on residual clause
18-9795 Gregory A. Barto v. Mark Garmon, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit 2019-06-25 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability cross-examination due-process effective-cross-examination evidence-tampering habeas-corpus procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment state-court-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the court of appeals decision to deny a COA concluding that petitioner sufficiency of evidence claim was procedurally defaulted based on state…
18-9743 Hollins Tizeno v. Gerald Janda, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-06-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion legal-procedure procedural-default standing sua-sponte waiver Whether a district court may sua sponte raise a waived procedural default defense and, if so, under what circumstances is it appropriate to do so.
18-9754 Daniel Teitelbaum v. Neil Turner, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-06-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation constitutional-violation dna dna-evidence due-process fbi-codis-database guilty-verdict ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel jury-unanimity new-evidence prejudice procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct Did flaws in the FBI's CODIS DNA database prejudice the defendant and lead to a guilty verdict?
18-9733 Bobby F. McReynolds v. Preston Glenn, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-06-19 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus medical-treatment prisoner-rights procedural-default scheduling standing state-court-review surgery Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's case
18-9676 Randy Ethan Halprin v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-06-14 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254(d)(2) aedpa aedpa-deference capital-punishment-eligibility certificate-of-appealability enmund-v-florida habeas-corpus lockett-v-ohio merits-review procedural-default tison-v-arizona Whether the Fifth Circuit contravened this Court's precedents in Buck, Miller-El, and Slack by first deciding the merits of Mr. Halprin's claims befor…
18A1312 Carmen A. Zammiello v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-14 Presumed Complete access-to-courts constitutional-rights habeas-corpus pro-se procedural-default writ-of-certiorari Whether a pro se prisoner's constitutional right to meaningful access to courts is violated when procedural requirements effectively obstruct his abil…
18-9632 Major Hudson, III v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2019-06-12 Denied IFP 14th-amendment due-process ineffective-assistance laches liberty-interest miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default sixth-amendment Where a procedural default is the result of ineffective assistance of counsel and the state's responsibility, can the state use laches to avoid correc…
18-9450 Angela Pizzarelli v. Gurbir Grewal, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2019-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus habeas-relief jurisdiction notice notice-requirement procedural-default standing state-court time-limitation Does the failure of the state court clerk's office to notify petitioner of the court's decision on appeal constitute grounds for equitable tolling of …
18-9488 Nasedra K. Lumpkin v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights default-judgment dismissal due-process equal-protection federal-court procedural-default standing Whether the Fifth Amendment's due process clause requires a hearing before dismissal of a civil complaint for failure to prosecute
18-9491 William A. Trudeau, Jr. v. United States Second Circuit 2019-05-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP acquitted-conduct article-iii constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process further-review procedural-default sentencing Whether petitioner raised substantial showing of denial of constitutional right
18-1433 Milton Balkany v. United States Second Circuit 2019-05-15 Denied Response Waived actual-innocence criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default reasonable-doubt trevino-v-thaler Whether a lower court can apply a default rule or ignore precedent on actual innocence and ineffective assistance of counsel claims
18-9228 David D. Ewing v. Ronda Pash, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review claims-barred due-process exhaustion-of-remedies federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-admission merits-consideration procedural-default self-defense state-court-appellate state-court-proceedings Whether a petitioner's claims are barred from federal review when the underlying claims have been considered on the merits during state court appellat…
18-9116 Jesus Cotto v. Jacqueline Lashbrook, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari-petition compliance-exception due-process exhaustion-of-remedies federal-court-discretion federal-court-review federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review post-conviction procedural-default procedural-rules state-court-determination state-court-rules state-courts Whether Federal Courts May Excuse A Petitioner's Failure To Comply With The State Court's Procedural Rules, Notwithstanding The State Court's Determin…
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
18-8855 Eric A. Hicks v. United States District of Columbia 2019-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-error criminal-procedure guidelines molina-martinez molina-martinez-standard molina-martinez-v-united-states prejudice prejudice-standard procedural-default sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether the court of appeals' decision conflicts with this Court's decision in Molina-Martinez v. United States, 136 S. Ct. 1338 (2016), in concluding…
18-8796 Larry Junior Copeland, aka La-La v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability evidentiary-hearing fair-sentencing-act first-step-act habeas-corpus procedural-default retroactivity sentencing-discretion Should the Court of Appeals have granted a certificate of appealability on whether district court abused its discretion?
18-8492 Reginald Gibson v. James Haviland, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-03-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-claims constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ohio-constitution post-conviction-relief procedural-default res-judicata state-law Whether a criminal defendant is denied due process of law if the state improperly invokes its res judicata rule
18-8440 Travis Trevino Runnels v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-03-18 Denied Relisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-court counsel-misconduct equitable-relief habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default rule-60(b) rule-60b standard-of-review Whether certiorari should be granted when the circuit court improperly applied an 'overly rigid per se approach' in denying COA on petitioner's motion…
18-1194 Shane Crutchfield v. Jeff Dennison, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-03-14 Denied Response Waived due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review martinez-trevino-exception post-conviction-review procedural-default state-court-proceedings trial-counsel trial-record Whether the exception to procedural default established in Martinez v. Ryan, 566 U.S. 1 (2012), and Trevino v. Thaler, 569 U.S. 413 (2018), is categor…
18-8429 Tracy Lane Beatty v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-03-14 Denied IFP adequate-representation circuit-split civil-procedure civil-procedure-60b6-martinez-v-ryan-conflict-amon federal-courts federal-habeas martinez-standard martinez-v-ryan procedural-default rule-60-motion rule-60(b)(6) standing timeliness Whether the Court should grant certiorari to resolve a conflict among the federal courts of appeals as to whether petitioners may ever prevail on a Fe…
18-8434 Leif Halvorsen v. DeEdra Hart, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-03-14 Denied IFP amendment-of-habeas-petition clearly-established-law darden-v-wainwright due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct white-v-woodall Whether the Sixth Circuit's ruling that a lack of Supreme Court case law dealing with a specific type of improper prosecution closing argument means n…
18-8423 Willie White v. Justin Hammers, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2248 administrative-law application-granted civil-procedure court-order court-orders default-judgment due-process federal-statute habeas-corpus judicial-procedure procedural-default respondent-failure statutory-interpretation Whether the application should have been granted after the respondent failed to reply to the court orders
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
18-8242 Jody Ford McCreary v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied IFP civil-procedure collateral-review due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-review procedural-default sixth-amendment standing state-court strickland-standards substantive-claim Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit abused its discretion in denying a certificate of appealability on the denial of the …
18-1132 Oscar Franklin Smith v. Tony Mays, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-03-01 Denied cullen-v-pinholster federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-exception martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan pinholster-limitation pinholster-v-cullen procedural-default state-habeas state-habeas-proceedings state-post-conviction trevino-v-thaler Whether Martinez and Trevino apply to ineffective-assistance-of-trial-counsel claims that were technically raised in state habeas proceedings but went…
18-8194 Jerome Henderson v. Terry Collins, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP due-process equal-protection post-conviction-remedies statutory-law suspension-clause due-process equal-protection federal-statutory-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ohio-public-defender-commission post-conviction-relief post-conviction-remedies procedural-default Whether appointed counsel violated federal statutory law or constituted an equal protection clause violation
18-8201 Robert Edward Butler v. Howard W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2019-02-28 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-provisions court-appeal due-process federal-habeas federal-habeas-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction legal-review procedural-default retroactivity state-post-conviction-proceedings statutory-provisions writ-of-certiorari Whether Supreme Court decisions in Buck v. Davis, Martinez v. Ryan, and Trevino v. Thaler permit federal habeas review of ineffective assistance of ap…
18-8030 Charles Russell Rhines v. Darin Young, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 cullen-v-pinholster federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan pinholster-standard procedural-default state-court-adjudication Where is the boundary between 'new claims,' whose default federal habeas courts may excuse, and 'new facts,' which federal habeas courts may not consi…
18-8073 Tony D. Thompson v. Georgia Georgia 2019-02-21 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel out-of-time-appeal procedural-default standing withdrawal-of-guilty-plea Whether the trial court and the Georgia Supreme Court abused their discretion by failing to reach the merits of petitioner's out-of-time appeal
18-8009 Ernesto Aguirre v. Ken Clark, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-02-19 Denied IFP civil-rights collateral-review due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction post-conviction-review procedural-default state-court state-court-procedure state-court-rules May a state court ignore its own exception rules to barring untimely or successive petitions without violating the Constitution to Equal Protection of…
18-8017 Jacoby Kindred v. Jeff Titus, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-02-19 Denied IFP barefoot-standard barefoot-v-estelle certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process federal-courts habeas habeas-corpus procedural-default procedural-grounds slack-standard slack-v-mcdaniel standard-of-review Whether district courts can employ the Barefoot v. Estelle standard instead of the Slack v. McDaniel analysis when determining whether to issue a cert…
18-7983 Eric Joseph Laurson v. Colorado Colorado 2019-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP claim-imputation collateral-review constitutional-entitlement due-process habeas-corpus imputation judicial-review procedural-default state-action state-regulation May procedural default of the review of a claim of constitutional entitlement, which a state regulates to the collateral review venue, be properly imp…
18-7954 Stephen Blanton v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2019-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus jurisdictional-claim procedural-default slayton-v-parrigan Whether the Slayton rule bars federal habeas relief for a jurisdictional claim
18-7829 Joe Homer Mark v. Amy Rabeau Ninth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review civil-procedure counsel-performance custodial-interrogation district-court fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-error miranda-warning procedural-default self-incrimination standing Whether Petitioner Joe Mark's Fifth Amendment Rights were violated
18-7760 Geoffrey A. Gish v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP §-2255-motion appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-assessment plea-bargaining procedural-default statute-constitutionality subject-matter-jurisdiction Did the Eleventh Circuit exceed its subject-matter jurisdiction by denying a certificate of appealability based on its assessment of the underlying cl…
18-7713 Darnell Grimsley v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit 2019-02-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice procedural-default prosecution-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct sequestration sequestration-order sufficiency-of-evidence trial-testimony violation-of-sequestration-order Did the Third Circuit err in deferring to the district court's opinion that this issue was procedurally defaulted and finding that Mr. Grimsley was no…
18-7650 Robert Mitchell Jennings v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied IFP appellate-review claim-exhaustion exhaustion-doctrine federal-habeas federal-habeas-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel johnson-v-williams judicial-legitimacy judicial-procedure merits-review procedural-default trevino-v-thaler Does a court contravene Johnson v. Williams, 569 U.S. 289 (2013), evade application of Trevino v. Thaler, 569 U.S. 413 (2013), and depart from the acc…
18-7631 Jerry Haley v. Blair Leibach, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-01-29 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-counsel post-conviction-proceedings procedural-default trevino-v-thaler Whether the United States District Court decision that Mr. Haley cannot establish cause to excuse the procedural default of his substantial claims of …
18-7603 Raymond Zayas v. Jamey Luther, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Laurel Highlands, et al. Third Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights crawford-claim due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan procedural-default sixth-amendment Whether this Court should vacate the Third Circuit's Order denying a Certificate of Appealability and remand so the Third Circuit can apply Martinez-v…
18-7610 Michael Colbaugh v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied IFP equitable-exception federal-habeas-corpus federal-writ habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default state-writ texas-code-of-criminal-procedure texas-court-of-criminal-appeals trevino-exception trevino-v-thaler Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ruling denying Petitioner a second Writ of Habeas Corpus is in error
18-7521 Freddie King, Jr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-review constitutional-right counsel douglas-v-california habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel louisiana-criminal-procedure martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-proceedings post-conviction-review procedural-default right-to-counsel state-procedure Whether a defendant in a Louisiana state criminal case has a constitutional right to effective assistance of counsel in a first post-conviction procee…
18-7497 Carl Burnie Wellborn v. Shane Jackson, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP fair-cross-section fundamental-fairness fundamental-unfairness habeas-corpus prejudice procedural-default sixth-amendment structural-error Can reasonable jurists debate whether habeas petitioners asserting procedurally defaulted fair cross-section claims must show actual prejudice or that…
18-927 Emmanuel I. Mekowulu v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-17 Denied Response Waived constitutional-vagueness criminal-conduct criminal-law criminal-law-procedure due-process ex-post-facto expert-testimony procedural-default standard-of-care vagueness Whether the government's expert's after-the-fact opinion of the applicable standard of care of Florida Pharmacists is an ex post facto interpretation …
18-7326 Mark Anthony Soliz v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-01-11 Denied IFP certiorari-standard due-process federal-habeas-review federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit-review habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation plain-statement-rule procedural-default state-court-decision state-court-determination state-court-proceedings Whether this Court should grant certiorari to remand this case to the Fifth Circuit because the Fifth Circuit misapplied this Court's 'plain statement…
18-7370 Skye Ely Gipson v. Cynthia Y. Tampkins, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-01-11 Denied IFP anti-terrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act antiterrorism-act civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default standing statute-of-limitations Whether the court should hear this writ of certiorari challenging the denial of a certificate of appealability under Federal Rules of Civil Procedure …
18-7158 Tony Knox v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2018-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process federal-question federal-questions judicial-review legal-standard novel-claim procedural-default statutory-vagueness unconstitutional vague-statute Did The State Court Decide Important Federal Questions In A Way That Conflicts With Relevant Decisions Of This Court, such as: (1) A Vague Statute Was…
18-738 Henry Paul Richardson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-12-10 Denied Response Waived actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-restrictions circuit-split constitutional-claims defaulted-claims habeas habeas-corpus procedural-default sawyer-v-whitley schlup-v-delo standard-of-review Whether the Schlup v. Delo actual-innocence standard applies to a second habeas petition
18-6944 Jose Luis Vizcaino-Ramos v. Cherry Lindamood, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process exhaustion-doctrine exhaustion-of-state-remedies habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan procedural-default tennessee tennessee-post-conviction-procedures trial-counsel Whether under Martinez v. Ryan, a prisoner confined pursuant to a Tennessee Judgment may assert ineffective assistance of initial-collateral-review co…
18-6848 Robert Mitchell Jennings v. Texas Texas 2018-11-27 Denied IFP death-penalty equal-protection habeas-corpus penry procedural-default subsequent-habeas Did the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals deny Jennings equal protection of the law by dismissing on procedural grounds subsequent habeas corpus applica…
18-6815 Micheal Jerrial Ibenyenwa v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining procedural-default right-to-counsel sentencing Whether a petitioner deserves encouragement to proceed further when trial counsel instructs him to reject a favorable plea offer at trial colloquy thr…
18-6766 David Gulbrandson v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections Ninth Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-punishment-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment habeas-corpus procedural-default procedural-ruling second-in-time-petition statutory-aggravating-factors statutory-aggravator successive-petitions Whether reasonable jurists would debate the correctness of the district court's procedural ruling that Gulbrandson's second-in-time § 2254 petition wa…
18-6741 Charles Mamou, Jr. v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-11-20 Denied IFP 18-U.S.C.-3599(f) court-procedure due-process funding funding-request habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-review procedural-default rule-of-law statutory-interpretation substantial-need-test Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in how it applied Ayestas v. Davis?
18-6620 Joe Louis Armenta v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2018-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 aedpa deck-v-jenkins fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus habeas-proceedings jury-instructions procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review Do prior decisions of this Court compel the conclusion that so long as the jury is properly admonished and instructed, there cannot be a viable claim …
18-6626 William Foley Miller v. Florida Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-08 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process federal-habeas federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mistrial procedural-default right-to-counsel state-appellate-review Who did not use any federal case's or federal codes, did not preserve these issues for review that creates an unexhausted and procedurally defaulted c…
18-6550 Anthony Thomas v. Darrell Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-11-02 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP affidavit costs court-fees declaration effective-assistance-of-counsel financial-disclosure habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis income-declaration ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-indigency poverty prejudice procedural-default redress sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel requires a new trial when counsel's deficient performance prejudiced the defendan…
18-6539 Allan Wayne Rencountre v. Colby Braun, Warden Eighth Circuit 2018-11-01 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights counsel-ineffectiveness due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion merits-review procedural-default statutory-deadline statutory-filing-deadline Should the Court have granted equitable tolling with regards to the statutory filing deadline due to the ineptitude of Petitioner's retained counsel s…
18-6525 Edmund Zagorski v. Tony Mays, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-10-31 Denied IFP edwards-v-carpenter federal-civil-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lockett-v-ohio martinez-rule martinez-v-rule post-conviction-relief procedural-default Whether a federal habeas corpus petitioner can invoke the rule of Martinez v. Ryan to show that the ineffectiveness of post-conviction counsel provide…
18-6467 Tyrone Pulley v. California California 2018-10-29 Denied IFP appellate-counsel circuit-split habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-proceedings ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan procedural-default trevino-v-thaler Does the rule established in Martinez v. Ryan and Trevino v. Thaler apply to procedurally defaulted ineffective assistance of appellate counsel claims…
18-6454 Charles Nash v. Shawn Phillips, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-10-26 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-trevino martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-counsel post-conviction-relief procedural-default sixth-circuit-review trevino-v-thaler Whether a post-conviction attorney's failure to argue or present proof in support of raised substantial ineffective assistance of trial counsel claims…
18-543 State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. v. Jerry Reeves Third Circuit 2018-10-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) actual-innocence criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel new-evidence new-evidence-requirement post-conviction-relief procedural-default sixth-amendment trial-review untimely-petition untimely-petitions Whether evidence that was available but not presented at trial satisfies the new evidence requirement of the actual innocence exception which permits …
18-6414 Marvin K. Locke v. Daniel Paramo, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP common-law constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process felony-murder habeas-corpus ninth-circuit procedural-default second-successive-petition standing statutory-interpretation Whether the second-degree felony murder rule is based on statute
18-6430 Kinzie Decarlos Thomas v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 alibi-defense appellate-review district-court evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel off-the-record off-the-record-facts procedural-default section-2255 statutory-interpretation Whether the district court erred in denying an evidentiary hearing on a § 2255 motion without resolving contested material facts
18-6425 Michael Louis Beattie v. L. Romero, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure administrative-remedies admissions civil-procedure civil-procedure-summary-judgment civil-procedure-summary-judgment-uncontroverted-fa exhaustion-of-remedies fact-admission moving-party non-moving-party prison-grievance prison-grievances procedural-default summary-judgment uncontroverted-facts When, during Summary Judgment proceedings, a non-moving party asserts a fact - or set of facts - and the moving party doesn't dispute the fact, is the…
18-6372 Michael Small v. Cherry Lindamood, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-challenge due-process evidentiary-ruling federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion procedural-default procedural-rules sentencing state-court sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the United States Court of Appeals erred when it agreed with the district court that the claim of ineffective assistance of counsel was withou…
18-6332 Ricky Lee Stroble v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-10-16 Denied IFP actual-innocence appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default Does Actual Innocence excuse a failure to properly brief an appeal in a Certificate of Appealability proceeding?
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…
18-6188 Andrew Lucero v. Colorado Department of Corrections Colorado 2018-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP bill-of-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue liberty-interest procedural-default statutory-interpretation Whether the original Criminal Trial Court abused its discretion in its Procedural Defaults, ab initio, depriving petitioner of Constitutionally Secure…
18-6102 Anthony Mayes, Jr. v. United States Second Circuit 2018-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-proceedings due-process federal-statutes judicial-review pro-se pro-se-litigant procedural-default trial-counsel Whether a pro se litigant's failure to address on direct appeal trial counsel's procedural default of client's fundamental due process rights, for app…
18-6087 Samuel Raphael Johnson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP §2255-motion 28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review post-conviction-relief procedural-default successive-petitions Does asking the district court to reopen the habeas proceeding to consider all issues presented constitute a second or successive §2255 motion?
18-6062 Ramiro Rubi Ibarra v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-09-20 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equitable-exception final-conviction habeas-corpus martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan procedural-default retroactive-rights retroactivity Whether the equitable exception to procedural default recognized in Martinez v. Ryan should be extended to claims based on retroactive rights in cases…
18-6032 D. L. v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2018-09-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP does-wisconsin's-sentencing-scheme-apply-to-juveni federal-habeas-proceedings habeas-corpus-review ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-sentencing mandatory-life-sentence martinez-trevino-doctrine martinez-v-ryan miller-v-alabama procedural-default state-habeas state-habeas-proceedings trevino-v-thaler Can the exceptions excusing procedural default of ineffective assistance of trial counsel claims in the Martinez/Trevino doctrine apply to State Habea…
18-6033 Raymond Douglas Myers v. David R. Osborne, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-09-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence equitable-principles indigent-petitioner indigent-petitioners ineffective-assistance post-conviction-counsel post-conviction-relief procedural-default state-interference state-law-limits Where there are inherent state law limits placed upon post-conviction counsel and hence indigent petitioners' ability to present his/her substantial p…
18-6015 Gustavo Torres-Medel v. Jacqueline Lashbrook, Warden Seventh Circuit 2018-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP cross-examination defense-presentation discovery expert-witness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-rights trial-counsel Whether the defendant's Sixth Amendment rights were violated when trial counsel failed to utilize an expert witness, failed to present defense witness…
18-5959 John Ingebretsen v. Jack Palmer, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP cause-and-prejudice certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan plea-bargaining post-conviction-counsel procedural-default Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in denying a request for a certificate of appealability
18-5845 David L. Pierce v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review order procedural-default sixth-circuit standing Did the Sixth Circuit Court Of Appeals err when it denied petitoner a Certificate of Appealability based upon their 'ORDER'
18-5787 Danyale Sharron Tubbs v. Michigan Michigan 2018-08-28 Denied IFP competency competency-defense due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-competency mental-illness plain-error procedural-default sentencing sentencing-error strickland-standard Was Michigan's application of Strickland v. Washington unreasonable?
18-5789 John Thompson v. United States Second Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus jurists-of-reason motion-for-appeal procedural-default procedural-ruling second-circuit standard-of-review standing Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred in denying Thompson's Motion for Certificate of Appealability
18-5805 George Clifton Cobb v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-review due-process habeas-corpus ninth-circuit procedural-default standing Did the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals err in dismissing petitioner's application for Certificate of Appealability as untimely despite petitioner showi…
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…
18-5687 Brian Kerry O'Keefe v. Renee Baker, Warden, et al. Nevada 2018-08-23 Denied IFP civil-rights collateral-review due-process federal-review habeas-corpus liberty-interest procedural-default standing state-court-decision state-court-proceedings statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent time-bar Whether rights generated by federal procedural and substantive due-process prohibit the state from concluding direct review
18-5672 Charles S. Renchenski v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit 2018-08-21 Denied IFP appellate-procedure circuit-split conflict-of-laws constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default state-courts Has the Third Circuit Court of Appeals entered a decision that is in conflict with the United States Supreme Court, all other Courts of Appeals, feder…
18-188 Ivy T. Tucker v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-08-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split constitutional-deficiency constitutional-law criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-minimum offense-of-conviction out-of-circuit-precedent procedural-default sentencing sentencing-guidelines trial-counsel Whether trial counsel's failure to make an argument that courts of appeals outside the circuit have accepted amounts to constitutionally deficient ass…
18-5531 Kelly E. Culver v. Dushan Zatecky, Superintendent, Pendleton Correctional Facility Seventh Circuit 2018-08-09 Denied IFP appellate-counsel-ineffectiveness cause-and-prejudice due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default sixth-amendment strickland-standard Whether trial counsel's failure to offer a contemporaneous objection during trial compromised the petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to competent coun…
18-5505 Farris Genner Morris v. Tony Mays, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-08-08 Denied IFP procedurally defaulted ineffective assistance of capital-case equitable-exception evidence federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-relief procedural-default sixth-amendment When Martinez v. Ryan applies to a petitioner's initial federal habeas corpus proceeding, should the petitioner be entitled to application of Martinez…
18-5519 Mark Templeton v. Brigitte Amsberry, Superintendent, Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence cause-and-prejudice civil-procedure criminal-conviction due-process equitable-tolling federal-habeas habeas-corpus parole procedural-default section-2254 standing Whether extraordinary circumstances exist that should afford Mr. Templeton equitable tolling of any time limit within which he had to file the underly…
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…
18-5494 Blaine Keith Milam v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-08-07 Denied IFP buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights death-penalty due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability judicial-review mitigating-evidence procedural-default right-to-counsel Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in not granting a certificate of appealability on the claims presented in violation of the holding in Buck v. Davis
18-5338 DeLawrence A. King v. Ronald Erdos, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-07-25 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance mens-rea procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct self-defense sufficiency-of-evidence Did the Sixth Circuit Court error when it failed to grant Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability after previously ruling in his favor, by stating t…
18-5295 Miguel Pedraza v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-20 Denied IFP 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction mental-competency procedural-default standard-of-review Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in denying petitioner's certificate of appealability application based on the conclusion that he failed to make a s…
18-5149 Francisco Cubero v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability collateral-relief collateral-review conflicting-results due-process plea-hearing procedural-default sentencing supervised-release supervised-release-term Whether the district court's failure to correctly inform the defendant of the direct consequences of pleading guilty prejudiced the defendant
18-5140 M. P. F. v. Alabama Alabama 2018-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts appeal-rights constitutional-rights court-transcripts due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief procedural-default procedural-rules void-judgment Whether a defendant has a constitutional right to obtain trial transcripts to perfect an appeal
18-5104 Christopher Reed v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Pennsylvania 2018-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP arkansas civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process extradition extradition-law extradition-process federal-laws habeas-corpus human-trafficking involuntary-servitude pennsylvania procedural-default tennessee uniform-criminal-extradition-act Did the State of Arkansas, Tennessee and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania violate the Uniform Criminal Extradition Act by not following Federal laws on ex…
18-5110 Abron Spraggins v. Rusty Washburn, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review cause-and-prejudice civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process federal-claim federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-decisions procedural-default state-appellate-court Is the decision of the court of appeals regarding the procedural default of petitioner's ineffective assistance of counsel claims in conflict with or …
18-5070 Michael B. Williams v. Stephen Mayberg, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-07-02 Dismissed IFP actual-innocence brady-violation certificate-of-appealability dna-evidence exculpatory-evidence federal-habeas fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice habeas-corpus mcquiggin-v-perkins procedural-default Whether petitioner's actual innocence claim overcomes the procedural default of his federal habeas claims challenging the constitutionality of his sta…
18-5059 David Randolph Bedell v. Scott Jordan, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied IFP actual-innocence aedpa-limitations aedpa-statute-of-limitations cause-and-prejudice certificate-of-appealability extraordinary-circumstances fundamental-defects habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel manifest-injustice procedural-default Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals abused its discretion in denying a Certificate of Appealability
18-5015 Edwin Aponte v. Eric Tice, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Smithfield, et al. Third Circuit 2018-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights confrontation-clause due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-review procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct self-defense sixth-amendment state-appellate-procedure Was petitioner's prosecutorial misconduct claim procedurally defaulted for failing to present it in state appellate procedure when the highest state c…
24A307 Garcia Glenn White v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied constitutional-review habeas-corpus identity-claim prisoner-rights procedural-default time-bar Whether a prisoner may bring an identity-related claim outside of standard procedural time limitations
24A391 Christopher Collings v. David Vandergriff, Warden Missouri Denied capital-punishment eighth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance intellectual-disability procedural-default Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of a capital defendant with credible claims of intellectual disability that were not fully adjudi…