| 25A449 |
Kerry E. Silvers v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2025-10-17 |
Application |
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appellate-procedure criminal-procedure indiana-supreme-court legal-standards post-conviction-relief retroactive-law |
Whether the Indiana Court of Appeals improperly applied retroactive legal standards in denying a post-conviction relief petition by failing to adhere … |
| 23A362 |
Carlos Martinez v. California |
California |
2023-10-23 |
Presumed Complete |
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constitutional-violation ex-post-facto habitual-criminal prior-conviction retroactive-law sentencing-enhancement |
Whether the Ex Post Facto Clause of the U.S. Constitution prohibits California from retroactively modifying a prior conviction to enhance a defendant'… |
| 22-7832 |
David Troy, III v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-06-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court circuit-precedent criminal-resentencing fair-sentencing-act first-step-act fourth-circuit retroactive-changes retroactive-law sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether retroactive changes in the law unrelated to the Fair Sentencing Act must be corrected in a First Step Act proceeding? |
| 22-5151 |
James Tyrell Drane v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2022-07-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment retroactive-law statute-of-limitations |
Whether the State of Michigan's interpretation of its statute of limitations to revive an expired offense violated the petitioner's 14th Amendment due… |
| 22-5073 |
Leroy McGill v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-07-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
arizona constitutional-law criminal-punishment criminal-sentencing death-penalty ex-post-facto ninth-circuit retroactive-increase retroactive-law |
Did the Ninth Circuit err in holding that Arizona did not violate the Ex Post Facto Clause by sentencing Mr. McGill to death under the later-enacted s… |
| 21-6719 |
N. R. v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2021-12-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment ex-post-facto juvenile-adjudication juvenile-justice retroactive-application retroactive-law sex-offender-registration |
Do the Ex Post Facto Clause and Eighth Amendment permit a retroactive imposition of registration obligations on a person adjudicated of a sex offense … |
| 21-6532 |
Mary Noel Kruppe v. California |
California |
2021-12-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute due-process homicide malice murder-prosecution recklessness retroactive-law |
Whether the Appellate court's dramatic expansion of the law of homicides in People v. Watson (1981) 30 Cal. 3d 240 violates the defendant's due proces… |
| 21-6387 |
Richard Barry Randolph v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-11-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-sentencing constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment retroactive-law statutory-construction |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court's decision in Hurst v. State constitutes statutory construction of substantive law, and if so, whether the Due Proce… |
| 20-6533 |
Grover B. Reed v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-12-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment florida-supreme-court fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-state retroactive-law retroactivity statutory-construction |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court's statutory construction in Hurst v. State constitutes substantive law, and if so, whether under the Due Process Cla… |
| 19-8179 |
In Re Harold Wayne Nichols |
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2020-04-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2244 capital-defendant court-of-appeals habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-limits merits-adjudication retroactive-law statutory-interpretation successive-petitions |
When a capital defendant requests from a court of appeals authorization to file in a district court a second or successive habeas petition presenting … |
| 19-7871 |
In Re Antonio Damarcus Woodson |
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2020-03-04 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
access-to-courts appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure-jurisdiction civil-procedure-standing-jurisdiction-federal-rule civil-rights district-court due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure final-judgment jurisdiction legal-standards procedural-due-process retroactive-law standing |
Whether the jurisdictional requirements under 28 USC §§ 1331, 1332, 1343, 1367, 2072, and the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure were met, and whether t… |
| 18-9372 |
Quisi Bryan v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa constitutional-interpretation federal-constitutional-law federal-review federalism habeas-corpus panetti-v-quarterman procedural-bar retroactive-law retroactivity state-court |
Whether 28 U.S.C. § 2244 prevents a federal habeas court from reviewing a state court's voluntary and independent retroactive application of a new rul… |
| 18-9113 |
Glen Moore v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts double-jeopardy due-process liberty-interests parole parole-revocation retroactive-law retroactive-punishment standing |
Do Texas Board of Parole have the constitutional authority to change laws or to take away a prisoner's liberty interests without due process of law? |
| 18-1111 |
James J. Kaufman v. Scott Walker, et al. |
Wisconsin |
2019-02-26 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-versus-punitive ex-post-facto fourth-amendment gps-monitoring judicial-review Lifetime-GPS-Monitoring Reasonable-Suspicion retroactive-application retroactive-law sex-offender sex-offenders |
Whether lifetime GPS monitoring of sex offenders based on decades-old convictions and the possibility of future crimes is reasonable under the Fourth … |
| 18-7507 |
In Re Dwight Carter |
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2019-01-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 circuit-split collateral-review gatekeeping-standard habeas-corpus retroactive-law retroactivity statutory-interpretation |
Did the 11th Circuit adopt a divergent interpretation of the gatekeeping standard contrary to Congress' plain language in 28 U.S.C. §2244(b)(3)(C), wh… |
| 18-6608 |
William Charles O'Neil v. FCC Coleman, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split habeas-corpus jurisdictional-issue retroactive-law retroactivity savings-clause section-2241 section-2255 sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Is the Eleventh Circuit's interpretation of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e) correct? |