| 23-6993 |
Leon Akins v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-03-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
competency-evaluation criminal-procedure drope-v-missouri due-process dusky-v-united-states judicial-review mental-competency record-evidence trial-standards |
DOES THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS DECISION CONFLICT WITH THIS COURTS DECISION IN DUSKY V. UNITED STATES, 362 US 402 (1960) AND DROPE V. MISSO… |
| 23-5644 |
Robert Timothy Blake v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
coa-mandate constitutional-rights due-process government-witness ineffective-assistance judicial-review plea-bargain record-evidence reversible-error strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
1. Did Trial Counsel Fail to Adequately inform Defendant
of the Consequences of Accepting the Plea Bargain?
2. Was the Strickland V. Washington stan… |
| 22-7429 |
Melecio Santana Delacruz, aka Ricardo Vergara v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-05-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
credibility-determination habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel perjury record-evidence sixth-amendment |
Understariding that the Texas Gourt of Criminal Appeals is the
ultimate fact finder in Texas habeas corpus cases, and the weight
placed upon Trial C… |
| 21-43 |
Moe M. Al-Dolemy v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2021-07-13 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review conviction conviction-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure legal-error michigan-court-of-appeals record-contradiction record-evidence |
Did the Michigan Court of Appeals commit reversible error through issuing a opinion affirming Petitioner 's conviction where the opinion is contradict… |
| 20-1080 |
Stephen Edward May v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-09 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
constitutional-challenge counsel-conduct counsel-performance effective-assistance hypothetical-strategies hypothetical-strategy ineffective-assistance judicial-deference performance-evaluation record-evidence strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
1. Can a court find counsel's conduct to be effective under Strickland v. Washington by positing strategies that hypothetically could have, but demons… |
| 19-6918 |
Michael Wade Nance v. Benjamin Ford, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment capital-sentencing circuit-split constitutional-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation-strategy record-evidence strickland-v-washington stun-belt trial-counsel |
1. The state habeas testimony of Michael Nance's trial counsel established that they inexplicably omitted highly mitigating evidence from Mr. Nance's … |
| 19-5592 |
Dawud Spaulding v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2019-08-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-defendant capital-punishment defense-counsel due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-presumption post-conviction post-conviction-proceedings record record-evidence standard-of-review strategic-decision strategic-decision-making |
1. Should courts presume defense counsel acted strategically, even when the evidence in the record demonstrates a lack of strategy in their actions?
… |
| 18-9297 |
Jeremy Shane Hall v. John Myrick, Superintendent, Two Rivers Correctional Institution |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance professional-norms reasonableness-of-counsel record-evidence sixth-amendment state-post-conviction |
Whether a court can disregard record evidence of the prevailing professional norms in assessing the reasonableness of counsel's action or inaction und… |
| 18-388 |
Nigel Parker, et al. v. Andrei Iancu, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2018-09-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
5-usc-706(2)(e) administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-action agency-overreach arbitrary-and-capricious patent patent-law patent-office patent-office-rejection publication publication-standard publication-under-35-usc-102(b) record-evidence substantial-evidence |
In Dickinson v. Zurko, 527 U.S. 150 (1999), this Court held that The United States Patent Office must support rejection with substantial evidence. See… |