| 25-6683 |
Roderick Leshun Rankin v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2026-01-30 |
Pending |
IFP |
due-diligence evidence-standard habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance innocence-claim schlup-standard |
1. Over thirteen years after Roderick LeShun Rankin was convicted of three murders and sentenced to death, the pastor of his deceased brother Rodney d… |
| 25-664 |
Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections v. Justin Michael Wolfe |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-12-08 |
Pending |
|
actual-innocence factfinder-standard habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence schlup-standard trial-evidence |
Whether the "new" evidence required to make an actual-innocence claim under Schlup v. Delo, 513 U.S. 298 (1995), includes only newly discovered eviden… |
| 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 … |
| 24-6195 |
Oyd McCray v. Jeff Tanner, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-12-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence criminal-procedure habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice schlup-standard sixth-circuit-review |
Whether the Sixth Circuit's piecemeal review of a factual record requires Supreme Court intervention to reaffirm the gateway actual innocence standard… |
| 23-6265 |
Timothy Dean Stone v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-12-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review schlup-standard state-procedural-ground state-procedural-grounds texas-criminal-procedure texas-law writ-application |
Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals' holding that Texas Code of Criminal Procedure Article 11.07 section 4(a)(2) precluded consideration of th… |
| 23-6203 |
Justin Glover, Jr. v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-12-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence circuit-split evidence-review gateway-claim habeas-corpus mcquiggin-v-perkins newly-discovered-evidence schlup-standard schlup-v-delo |
Whether newly discovered, newly presented or previously presented evidence establishes the gateway claim of actual innocence under Schlup v Delo and M… |
| 23-569 |
Rodney Reed v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-11-28 |
Denied |
Relisted (11) |
affirmative-evidence due-process evidentiary-standard gateway-innocence habeas-corpus innocence-claim judicial-review reasonable-doubt schlup-standard schlup-v-delo |
Whether it violates due process to require a petitioner pursuing a gateway-innocence claim to prove with 'affirmative evidence' that a particular theo… |
| 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… |
| 21-6823 |
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 |
| 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 |
| 19-8483 |
Walter Barton v. William Stange, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-05-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence actual-innocence-evidence circuit-split competency-to-be-executed due-process evidence-standard execution-competence habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation schlup-standard schlup-v-delo |
Does new evidence of actual innocence require that it was not available at trial or not presented to the jury? |
| 19-8072 |
Saul Cervantes v. M. D. Biter, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus meaningful-review schlup-standard |
Whether petitioner established actual innocence to overcome the untimeliness of his habeas corpus petition |
| 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… |
| 18-8972 |
Wardell Nelson Joiner, Jr. v. John Sutton, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-error due-process evidentiary-hearing fair-trial false-evidence forensic-evidence habeas-corpus schlup-standard schlup-v-delo time-of-death wrongful-conviction |
Did the courts below err in applying Schlup v. Delo to hold that Petitioner's compelling new evidence was insufficient to establish reasonable doubt? |
| 18-7200 |
Dayvon Bryan Riley v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence equitable-analysis evidence evidence-claim federal-habeas habeas-corpus legal-sufficiency schlup-standard schlup-v-delo |
Whether a petitioner's claim in a federal habeas case that it is logically impossible that they committed an element of the offense is an actual innoc… |
| 18-5507 |
Mark Schwarzman v. David W. Gray, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-claim criminal-procedure critical-physical-evidence due-process genital-herpes habeas-corpus herpes-simplex-virus medical-evidence procedural-bar schlup schlup-standard standing |
Whether the highly infectious, extremely contagious, incurable sexually transmitted disease Herpes Simplex Virus HSV-2 (genital herpes) is sufficient … |