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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A750 Joseph Allen Maldonado v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-12-29 Application brady-violation criminal-procedure invited-error post-conviction-relief recantation rule-33 Question not identified.
24A1198 James Randall Rogers v. Georgia Georgia 2025-06-05 Presumed Complete bitemark-evidence capital-punishment constitutional-due-process death-penalty new-trial recantation Whether the recantation of bitemark evidence used to convict a death row inmate warrants a new trial under federal constitutional due process standard…
23-6960 Tasha Mercedez Shelby v. Mississippi Mississippi 2024-03-11 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment cause-of-death death-certificate due-process fourteenth-amendment homicide-conviction medical-examiner recantation resentencing shaken-baby-syndrome Does the Due Process Clause require resentencing when the principal evidence supporting a conviction is later recanted?
23-651 John Lowery v. Mike Parris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-12-15 Denied actual-innocence constitutional-claims constitutional-review credibility-findings eyewitness-recantation gateway-innocence recantation sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-deference state-court-deference suppressed-evidence Whether the Sixth Circuit erroneously deferred to the state court's credibility findings on a gateway innocence claim
23-5823 Ramiro Felix Gonzales v. Texas Texas 2023-10-17 Denied IFP constitutional-claim death-penalty eighth-amendment expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment future-dangerousness recantation texas-code-criminal-procedure Whether a state court errs in refusing to entertain a cognizable Eighth or Fourteenth Amendment claim based on a state expert's recantation of trial t…
22-581 Heidi R. Steward, Acting Director, Oregon Department of Corrections v. Frank E. Gable Ninth Circuit 2022-12-22 Denied Relisted (2) actual-innocence chambers-v-mississippi due-process evidence evidence-rule habeas-corpus hearsay hearsay-exception recantation third-party-confession Whether Oregon Evidence Code Rule 804(8)(c) violates the Due Process Clause by excluding a third-party confession that is recanted and inconsistent wi…
22-6159 Jeffrey Morris v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-29 Denied IFP actual-innocence appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing post-conviction recantation witness-testimony Does the State of Florida violate a defendant's due process and/or constitutional rights in post-conviction proceedings for full development, presenta…
21-6823 Richard M. Arnold v. Reed A. Richardson, Warden Seventh Circuit 2022-01-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence credibility federal-petition habeas-corpus reasonable-juror recantation reliability schlup-standard standard-of-review Whether the district court must determine the credibility and reliability of new evidence of actual innocence before assessing its legal effect
20-7564 Emem Ufot Udoh v. United States District Court for the District of Minnesota Eighth Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-violation due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief recantation witness-recantation Whether Honorable District Judge Paul A. Magnuson Failed To Consider Petitioner's Habeas Claim
20-7442 Ahmad Shalash v. David W. Gray, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process habeas-corpus judicial-standard legal-precedent prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct recantation standing undue-burden Has the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit imposed an improper burden and unduly burdensome Certificate of Appealability (COA) stand…
19-5951 Jeffrey L. Harris v. Judy P. Smith, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-violation due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice newly-discovered-evidence recantation standing Is Jeffrey L. Harris entitled to a Certificate of Appealability?
18-9548 Kevin Terrell Tatum v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-06-04 Denied IFP civil-procedure-summary-judgment civil-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence newly-discovered-evidence recantation sufficiency-of-evidence summary-judgment witness-recantation Whether the district court erred in granting summary judgment against the appellant when there are material, unresolved facts in dispute
18-1043 Adam Clayton Zilm v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2019-02-08 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) burden-of-proof coerced-testimony criminal-procedure due-process false-testimony napue-standard napue-v-illinois recantation reliability-hearing witness-coercion Conviction of child sex abuse challenged on due process grounds for use of coerced testimony at trial
18-7223 Jesse Lloyd Hall v. Daniel Paramo, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-01-03 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 barefoot-standard coerced-confession due-process federal-review habeas-corpus police-misconduct recantation state-writ-petition victim-recantation victim-rights witness-intimidation Whether federal courts must take the allegations of a state writ petition as true when weighing if the state's denial was objectively unreasonable
18-6625 Darnell Bernard Blagmon v. Virginia Virginia 2018-11-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-constitution recantation state-court state-court-procedure witness-recantation writ-of-innocence Did the state court violate petitioner's federal constitutional right to due process by making this ruling without having held an evidentiary hearing?
18-6556 David McAlister, Sr. v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2018-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court credibility credibility-of-witness criminal-procedure cumulative-evidence due-process exculpatory-evidence legal-standard newly-discovered-evidence reasonable-probability recantation state-witness witness-credibility Whether the circuit court erroneously violated petitioner's right to due process when it applied an incorrect legal standard to newly discovered evide…
18-6090 Eric Williams v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2018-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence appellate-procedure criminal-procedure due-diligence due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief recantation recantation-evidence witness-recantation Did the Pennsylvania Superior Court and Common Pleas Court abuse their discretion by denying Williams an evidentiary hearing to review the merits of h…
18-5562 Albert Norman Pierre, Sr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-08-14 Denied IFP circuit-court-split circuit-split constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial innocence perjured-testimony prosecutorial-knowledge prosecutorial-misconduct recantation victim-recantation Whether petitioner was denied due process and a fair trial due to victim's false testimony and post-trial recantation
18-5337 Shawn Johnson v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2018-07-25 Denied IFP actual-innocence brady-violations certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence prosecutorial-concession prosecutorial-misconduct recantation recanted-testimony self-defense witness-recantation Whether petitioner Shawn Johnson was denied due process and a fair trial due to newly discovered evidence of actual innocence and ineffective assistan…