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25A497 Arthur Torlucci v. California Ninth Circuit 2025-10-30 Application certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim federal-petition habeas-corpus procedural-grounds section-2254 Whether a state court's denial of a habeas petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 can be appealed when the underlying petition fails to state a debatable fed…
24A1144 Robert S. Pierce v. Demetric Godfrey, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-05-27 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim district-court-discretion habeas-corpus rule-60(b) section-2254 Whether a federal habeas petitioner can obtain relief under Rule 60(b) for alleged errors in a prior section 2254 proceeding
24-7225 Chad Cutler v. Anthony Wills Seventh Circuit 2025-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-exhaustion administrative-remedies habeas-corpus judicial-conflict prison-reform section-2254 Whether the principle of administrative exhaustion applies to prison habeas petitions under 28 U.S.C. section 2254 to exhaust administrative remedies
24A1035 Huy Trong Tran v. Brian Cates, Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-04-25 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability civil-rights conditions-of-confinement educational-access habeas-corpus section-2254 Whether a state prisoner's pursuit of educational courses through community college programs while incarcerated constitutes a cognizable federal habea…
24A775 Micah Brown v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2025-02-11 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights death-row federal-review habeas-corpus section-2254 Whether a state court's denial of a certificate of appealability in a federal habeas corpus proceeding under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 violates a death row inm…
24A704 Ashley Parnell v. Tamika White Tenth Circuit 2025-01-01 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability federal-review habeas-corpus post-conviction section-2254 tenth-circuit Whether a federal habeas petitioner is entitled to a certificate of appealability when challenging a state court's denial of post-conviction relief un…
24A618 Ishmael Anthony Peters v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-20 Presumed Complete aedpa-standard constitutional-claim federal-review habeas-corpus section-2254 state-prisoner Whether a federal habeas court correctly applied the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act's (AEDPA) standard for granting relief on a state p…
24A583 Andrew E. Hoffman v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-16 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance section-2254 Whether a state court's denial of a federal habeas corpus petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 violated the petitioner's constitutional rights to due proce…
24A496 Lawrence Byron Watson v. Pamerson Ifill, Commissioner of Probation First Circuit 2024-11-19 Presumed Complete appellate-review district-court habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-timeliness section-2254 Whether a habeas corpus petition filed under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 can be dismissed on procedural timeliness grounds when the petitioner seeks to challenge…
24A488 Paul A. Brown v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit 2024-11-15 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability circuit-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance pro-se-petition section-2254 Whether a pro se prisoner's habeas petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 can survive dismissal when alleging ineffective assistance of counsel
24-5949 Anastacio G. Ramirez v. Martin Gamboa, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-review federal-court-standard habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance section-2254 state-court-review Whether a federal habeas court can independently evaluate state court factual determinations under Cullen v. Pinholster and Harrington v. Richter when…
24A455 Eric W. Strong v. Chris S. Buesgen, Warden Seventh Circuit 2024-11-06 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights habeas-corpus legal-resources post-conviction-review prisoner-access section-2254 Whether a state prisoner's extremely limited access to legal resources and law library constitutes a constitutional violation of his right to meaningf…
24-5570 In Re Joseph R. Dickey 2024-09-18 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP federal-prisoners habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief section-2254 section-2255 statutory-interpretation Whether the bar in 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(1) applies to claims presented by federal prisoners in a second or successive motion to vacate under 28 U.S.C. …
24A258 Robert A. Hamberg v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-12 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance section-2254 Whether a state court's denial of a federal habeas corpus petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 violated the petitioner's constitutional rights to due proce…
24A247 Sam Autry Fletcher v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-09-09 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights habeas-corpus prisoner-litigation pro-se section-2254 technological-evidence Whether a pro se prisoner's constitutional rights were violated when the district court denied his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas petition without fully cons…
24A41 Christopher J. Thorpe v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-15 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance section-2254 Whether a state court's denial of a federal habeas corpus petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 violated the petitioner's constitutional rights to due proce…
24A12 Andrew R. Allred v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-09 Presumed Complete constitutional-review death-penalty eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus postconviction section-2254 Whether a death-sentenced inmate's habeas corpus petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 was improperly denied by the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, poten…
23A1117 Kevin Fahrni v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas Fifth Circuit 2024-06-17 Presumed Complete criminal-conviction due-process habeas-corpus mandamus section-2254 sufficiency-of-evidence Whether a state prisoner can obtain federal habeas relief when state and federal courts allegedly failed to address the merits of a potentially merito…
23A1106 Lamar Z. Brooks v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-11 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability death-penalty eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus hurst-v-florida section-2254 Whether the Eleventh Circuit improperly denied a Certificate of Appealability for a state prisoner's federal habeas corpus petition challenging his mu…
23A1087 Maximo DiazLeal-DiazLeal v. Ronald Haynes, Superintendent, Airway Heights Corrections Center Ninth Circuit 2024-06-06 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure constitutional-claims due-process federal-review habeas-corpus section-2254 Whether a state court's denial of a federal habeas petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 comports with due process and federal constitutional standards
23A1054 Rory Cook v. Mark Williams, Warden Seventh Circuit 2024-05-24 Presumed Complete appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim federal-review habeas-corpus section-2254 Whether a federal habeas petitioner can obtain a certificate of appealability (COA) after the district court denied relief on a constitutional claim u…
23-1004 Moises Sandoval Mendoza v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-03-13 Denied capital-punishment capital-sentencing due-process federal-court fifth-circuit habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance merits-adjudication section-2254 state-court Whether a federal claim is 'adjudicated on the merits' in state court under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)
23A707 Gavin G. Brown v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-31 Presumed Complete certiorari-petition constitutional-claims eleventh-circuit federal-review habeas-corpus section-2254 Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals correctly applied the standard for habeas corpus relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 in denying the petitioner…
23A660 Marcus Kelly v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-18 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights federal-review habeas-corpus post-conviction section-2254 Whether a federal habeas petitioner can obtain a certificate of appealability after failing to make a substantial showing of a constitutional right's …
23A595 Clifford D. Jackson v. Neil McDowell, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-12-28 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure constitutional-claim habeas-corpus rule-60b section-2254 Whether a federal court properly denied a Rule 60(b)(6) motion challenging a section 2254 habeas corpus petition without granting a certificate of app…
23A453 Alan Osterhoudt, Jr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-11-21 Presumed Complete constitutional-claims eleventh-circuit federal-review habeas-corpus section-2254 state-court-adjudication Whether a federal habeas court may grant relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 when state court adjudications fail to provide a full and fair review of a crim…
23A394 Steven LaWayne Nelson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-11-01 Presumed Complete circuit-split federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance section-2254 state-court Whether the preclusive scope of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) permits federal courts to consider ineffective assistance of counsel claims that were not adjudica…
23A309 Aaron Mohanlal v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-10 Presumed Complete AEDPA habeas-corpus local-rules page-limits pro-se-prisoner section-2254 Whether a federal district court may dismiss a habeas corpus petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 with prejudice based on non-compliance with local page li…
23A160 Brian Williams, Warden, et al. v. Reynaldo Agavo Ninth Circuit 2023-08-22 Presumed Complete attorney-misconduct clearly-established-law confrontation-clause equitable-tolling habeas-corpus section-2254 Whether the Ninth Circuit properly applied 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(1) in holding that Nevada courts unreasonably applied clearly established Confrontation…
22-5887 Joseph Michael DeGraw v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion pro-se procedural-construction section-2254 section-2255 standing statutory-interpretation Whether federal courts should construe pro se state prisoner pleadings under 28 U.S.C. 2254 using the same standard as 28 U.S.C. 2255 federal prisoner…
22-5727 Antonio Garrett v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-30 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction section-2254 Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying Garrett a certificate of appealability on his 28 U.S.C. Section 2254 habeas claim of in…
21-8280 James Michael Forney v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process electronic-dockets federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-notice procedural-dismissal rule-4 section-2254 timeliness Whether Rule 4 of the Rules Governing Section 2254 Cases allows the district court to research online electronic dockets, take judicial notice, and di…
21-6292 Jason R. Bohlinger v. Ron Neal, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure constitutional-claim due-process federal-district-court habeas-corpus section-2254 standing Whether the Northern District of Indiana erred by denying Bohlinger habeas relief as untimely under section 2254 habeas corpus Rule 4, and by redactin…
21-6138 Armando B. Cortinas, Jr. v. Jo Gentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-11-01 Denied IFP Brecht-v-Abrahamson confession constitutional-error federal-habeas federal-review felony-murder habeas-corpus harmless-error premeditation-and-deliberation section-2254 state-court-decision Whether the state court's harmless error determination was unreasonable under 28-U.S.C-2254(d)(1)-and-(2)
21-5969 Derrick E. Steilman v. Reginald D. Michael, Director, Montana Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-10-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-statute habeas-corpus ninth-circuit procedural-timeliness section-2254 standard-of-review statute-of-limitations timeliness Whether the Ninth Circuit erred when it determined that Steilman's 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition is untimely?
20-8309 Robin Renee Melchior v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-06-15 Denied IFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability district-court habeas-corpus newly-presented-evidence rule-4 section-2254 slack-standard standard-of-review state-court-records Whether a United States District Court erred in failing to grant a certificate of appealability for a habeas corpus appeal
20-1624 Robert Butts v. William Sperfslage, Warden Eighth Circuit 2021-05-20 Denied anti-terrorism-act anti-terrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act attorney-deception effective-death-penalty-act equitable-tolling evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus holland-v-florida section-2254 Whether the court should grant a writ to clarify the standard for granting an evidentiary hearing on equitable tolling in Section 2254 cases under the…
20-7949 Terry Kent Holcomb, II v. Rick Whitten, Warden Tenth Circuit 2021-05-06 Denied IFP appeal constitutional-right due-process evidence evidentiary-ruling federal-court habeas-corpus probative-evidence section-2254 state-court tenth-circuit Did the Tenth Circuit err in holding that the admitted evidence at trial established the same probative facts as the rejected evidence, without determ…
20-7690 Jon Terrance Winzer v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus procedural-review section-2254 standing Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal err in allowing the Western District Court to deny his 28 U.S.C. Sec. 2254 petition as being improperly filed?
20-7371 Chase Adam Marsh v. Leslie Fleming, Warden Fourth Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied IFP aedpa civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus procedural-ruling section-2254 standing statute-of-limitations time-bar Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in time-barring Mr. Marsh's Section 2254 petition despite his proper filing of a state habeas petiti…
20-6786 Erica Yvonne Sheppard v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-01-05 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2254 batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection mitigation-evidence section-2254 wilson-v-sellers Whether the Fifth Circuit's application of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) survives Wilson v. Sellers and whether the court must consider the impact of all mitiga…
20-6419 Romell Broom v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-11-24 Dismissed IFP clearly-established-law constitutional-interpretation cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment execution-attempt habeas-corpus robinson-v-california section-2254 sentencing supreme-court-precedent trop-v-dulles Is Louisiana ex rel. Francis v. Resweber, 329 U.S. 459 (1947) the clearly established United States Supreme Court precedent, for purposes of 28 U.S.C.…
20-5668 Kelly Frithiof Sundberg v. Harold Oreol, Executive Director of Patton State Hospital Ninth Circuit 2020-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-procedure diligence-standard due-process equitable-tolling federal-procedure habeas-corpus section-2254 standing Should this Court resolve the conflicting approaches to equitable-tolling?
20-5618 Adrian D. Riley v. Joseph Noeth, Superintendent, Attica Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2020-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 appellate-review cullen-v-pinholster federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel section-2254 sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington Whether the court of appeals failed to follow this Court's federal habeas jurisprudence
20-5083 Telly Kavantzas v. Florida Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure district-court electronic-dockets federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-notice rule-4 rules-governing-section-2254-cases section-2254 timeliness Whether Rule 4 of the Rules Governing Section 2254 Cases allows the district court to dismiss a habeas corpus petition as untimely without calling for…
19-8674 Rolando Gus Paez v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP adversarial-system civil-procedure dismissal-rule due-process federal-procedure federalism federalism-doctrine habeas-corpus section-2254 statutory-interpretation Does Rule 4 of the rules governing Section 2254 cases in the United States District Court violate the federalism doctrine and/or the adversarial syste…
19-7765 William Reyes v. Robert Ercole, Superintendent, Green Haven Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2020-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2254 conviction criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus perjury prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-likelihood section-2254 witness-testimony Is a defendant deprived of his right to due process of law when he would not have been convicted had perjury not been introduced at his trial?
19-6954 Jerry Scott Camp, Jr. v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-12-16 Denied IFP coa department-of-corrections disability due-process equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus medical-condition medical-disability procedural-barriers sec-2254 section-2254 statute-of-limitations Should an inmate be entitled to equitable tolling due to extraordinary circumstances?
19-6714 Keith D. Goodman v. Eddie Pearson, Warden Fourth Circuit 2019-11-22 Denied IFP administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-district-court habeas-corpus procedural-rule section-2254 sentence-aggregation sentencing sentencing-calculation statutory-interpretation Is a federal district court (or a § 2254 petitioner) permitted to disregard or evade Rule 2(e) (of the Rules Governing Section 2254 Cases in the Unite…
19-6611 William Severs v. Gurbir Grewal, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-courts federal-statute habeas-corpus petition section-2254 statute-of-limitations time-bar Was the District Court's decision to dismiss Petitioner's 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition as untimely correct?
19-5438 Jimmy Fletcher Meders v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-02 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 anti-flyspecking-rule circuit-court-procedure clearly-established-law eleventh-circuit federal-court-deference federal-review habeas habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review section-2254 standard-of-review state-court-decision state-court-deference wilson-v-sellers Whether the Eleventh Circuit's adherence to its 'no-grading-papers-anti-flyspecking-rule' is incompatible with Wilson-v-Sellers
19-5233 Martin Leyva Valdez, Jr. v. W. L. Montgomery, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process federal-court-proceedings habeas-corpus ninth-circuit petition-timeliness rule-4 section-2254 state-court-proceedings state-court-records state-court-review timeliness ylst-v-nunnemaker Is the Ninth Circuit's decision contrary to this Court's decision in Y/st v Nunnemaker and Rule 4 of the Rules Governing Section 2254 cases?
18-9697 Dennis Gordon v. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Ninth Circuit 2019-06-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1983-action 28-usc-2254 civil-rights civil-rights-action due-process ex-post-facto federal-court-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ninth-circuit parole parole-hearing parole-release-hearings section-1983 section-2254 Does Dennis Gordon's ex post facto challenge to the eight-year increase in the interval between his parole release hearings fall within the Federal Co…
18-9613 Matthew L. Smeltzer v. Audrey King Ninth Circuit 2019-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-commitment complete-defense due-process erroneous-standard expert-testimony legal-standard section-2254 volitional-impairment Whether the petitioner was denied his due process right to present a complete defense during his civil commitment trial when the trial court precluded…
18-9537 Stephen S. Henry v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP assistant-united-states-attorney due-process federal-district-court fifth-amendment fraud fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court habeas habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review rule-60 section-2254 section-2255 standard-of-review state-court-review whether-fraud-on-the-court-can-be-reviewed-in-a-§-2255-habeas-proceeding
18-8914 Manuel Cazares v. Jay Cassady, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-04-19 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 conclusiveness district-court due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-procedure lower-court reply rules-governing-section-2254 section-2254 writ-of-habeas-corpus May Rule 5(e) of the Rules Governing Section 2254 cases in the United States District Courts, entitled Reply, be disregarded by the lower court?
18-8421 Timothy M. Thomas v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-13 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 abuse-of-discretion amendment certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-of-appeals district-court due-process exhaustion habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-28-usc-2254 habeas-corpus-amendment judicial-discretion law-of-the-case merits section-2254 slack-v-mcdaniel Did the circuit court of appeals err when it denied (COA) status on the point raised that the U.S. district court abused its discretion by not allowin…
18-6455 Ronnie McGee v. Pam Bondi, Attorney General of Florida Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244 district-court-review due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-courts federal-habeas gonzalez-v-crosby habeas-corpus section-2254 statutory-interpretation Whether a district court's misconstrual of a § 2254 claim and/or failure to consider or properly consider material evidence submitted to support a cla…
18-6409 Scotty Garnell Morrow v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-23 Denied Amici (1)IFP 28-usc-2254 clear-error due-process fact-finding federal-review habeas-corpus reasoned-opinion section-2254 state-court-adjudication state-court-deference Where the last state court to review the merits of a state prisoner's habeas claim denied relief in a reasoned opinion, may a federal court assume the…
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…
18-5932 Ronald Jones v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2018-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus medical-evidence section-2254 sixth-amendment state-conviction Whether Petitioner has shown clear and convincing evidence of a credible actual-innocence claim from his State conviction?
18-5629 Jermaine Dewitt Chaney v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-08-17 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability certificate-of-appealibility civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-district-court fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel section-2254 standard-of-review standards Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err by reaching the merits of the case and denying certificate of appealability?
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…