section-2255-motion

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24-5532 Eric Robert Rudolph v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-12 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence circuit-split collateral-attack-waiver habeas-corpus retroactive-constitutional-rule section-2255-motion When a § 2255 petitioner demonstrates through a retroactive constitutional rule that he is innocent, must an otherwise valid collateral-attack waiver …
24-5380 Leonus Stevenson Peterson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance section-2255-motion sentencing-variance sixth-amendment Did the lower courts err in conflating Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights, thereby denying both due process and effective assistance of counsel, when th…
23-5810 Christopher L. Laureano-Perez v. United States First Circuit 2023-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jury-verdict procedural-error section-2255-motion Should a writ of certiorari be granted to determine if the First Circuit of Appeals erred in not granting a certificate of appealability?
23A314 Matthew C. Spaeth v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-10-10 Presumed Complete attorney-client-communications collateral-review guilty-plea prosecutorial-misconduct section-2255-motion tollett-v-henderson Whether a defendant who entered a guilty plea may challenge his conviction on direct appeal or collateral review based on claims of prosecutorial misc…
22-7713 Javier Giovanni Araujo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights due-process federal-custody fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-discretion section-2255-motion Whether the Fifth Circuit Erred in Denying Araujo's Motion for Certificate of Appealability
22-7354 Rafael L. Beier v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-04-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining section-2255-motion sentencing sentencing-guidelines Did the Ninth Circuit err in summarily denying a certificate of appealability that would allow an appeal from an order denying a motion to vacate, set…
22-6128 Christopher Erwin v. United States Third Circuit 2022-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 circuit-split cooperation-agreement downward-departure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-colloquy section-2255-motion sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum Did the Circuit Court err in denying Petitioner's motion for ineffective-assistance-of-counsel without a hearing?
22-5547 Seneca Loyal Neal v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment body-camera-evidence constitutional-rights credibility-of-witnesses drug-conspiracy exclusionary-rule illegal-entry illegal-search-and-seizure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice section-2255-motion Whether the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit erred in affirming the District Court's denial of Mr. Neal's 28-USC-2255-claim
22-5293 Rafael Humberto Celaya Valenzuela v. United States First Circuit 2022-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-split due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel section-2255-motion supervisory-powers Did the Court of Appeals for the first Circuit err when it denied request for certificate of appealability where petitioner sought review of the Distr…
21-8147 John P. Tomkins v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-06-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure court-fees due-process federal-prisoners judicial-review section-2255-motion Have the lower courts imposed too high of a standard on federal prisoners who seek a certificate of appealability following the denial of a 28 U.S.C. …
21-6874 Joshua Britt v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 blackledge-v-allison counsel-misadvice dilang-dat-v-united-states due-process eighth-circuit-review evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief section-2255-motion Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit erred in Affirming the conviction
20-7603 In Re Bruce Allen Rutherford 2021-03-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights discovery due-process grand-jury habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-delay prosecutorial-misconduct section-2255-motion Unreasonable delay in ruling on 28 U.S.C. §2255 motion
20-6509 Milas Antwon Grant, III v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-review criminal-defendant due-process eleventh-circuit fundamental-fairness meaningful-review panel-order second-or-successive-2255-motion section-2255-motion truncated-time-frame without-adversarial-testing Does the Eleventh Circuit's practice of applying published panel orders—issued in the context of an application for leave to file a second or successi…
19-8657 Manoj Kumar Jha v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-06-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split due-process evidentiary-hearing fair-trial fair-tribunal judicial-bias post-conviction-collateral-motion post-conviction-relief section-2255-motion Can-the-District-Court-deny-a-28-U.S.C.-§-2255-motion-without-holding-an-evidentiary-hearing
19-8139 Douglas Duran Cerritos v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-03-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing mandatory-life-sentence miller-v-alabama psychiatric-evaluation section-2255-motion Did the Fourth Circuit commit error by not granting Mr. Cerritos a COA under 28 U.S.C. §2253(c)(2), after the denial of his 28 U.S.C. §2255 motion whe…
19-7675 Alonzo Lamar Johnson v. United States Third Circuit 2020-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus incarcerated incarcerated-petitioner plain-error pro-se pro-se-litigant section-2255-motion standing Whether the US Court of Appeals for the Third circuit improperly denied Petitioner's request for a Certificate of Appealability
19-6016 Devon Chance v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-20 GVR IFP 18-usc-924(c)(3) 18-usc-924c3 abrogation appellate-review case-law-abrogation circuit-court-decision criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ovalles-v-united-states section-2255-motion statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review united-states-v-davis Whether the Eleventh Circuit's decision denying petitioner's 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion should be vacated due to reliance on an abrogated opinion
18-7358 Aaron Ford v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255,ineffective-counsel ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error presentence-investigation-report section-2255-motion sentencing Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying to issue a certificate of appealability to review Petitioner's denied motion under 28 U…
18-6915 Carlton Robinson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act career-offender career-offender-guideline collateral-review constitutional-vagueness criminal-law-procedure johnson-precedent residual-clause retroactivity section-2255-motion sentencing supreme-court-retroactivity vagueness Whether a § 2255 motion filed within one year of Johnson, claiming that Johnson invalidates the residual clause of the pre-Booker career offender guid…
18-6581 Larry Hailey v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 career-offender career-offender-enhancement crimes-of-violence criminal-law criminal-procedure fourth-circuit fourth-circuit-appeal prior-convictions section-2255-motion sentencing sentencing-guidelines virginia-prior-convictions Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals Erred in Denying Petitioner's Appeal from Denial of His Motion Under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 Wherein Petitioner's…
18-5786 Donell A. Thomas v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 2255-motion certificate-of-appealability evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel loss-calculation rule-59(e)-motion rule-59e section-2255-motion sentencing sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-rights strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Did the Petitioner prove his claim of ineffective assistance of counsel and satisfy the Strickland test?
18-229 Ralph Curry v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied 28-usc-2255 armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split johnson-v-united-states judicial-review post-sentencing-caselaw residual-clause section-2255-motion sentencing-court sentencing-enhancement standard-of-proof successive-28-usc-2255-motion Whether a sentencing court may grant a successive 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion to vacate a sentence based on the Supreme Court's invalidation of the Armed …
18-5674 Roger Clay Swain v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-08-21 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act career-offender collateral-review due-process federal-sentencing habeas-corpus johnson-ruling mandatory-sentencing-guidelines residual-clause retroactivity section-2255-motion sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-retroactivity timeliness Whether federal prisoners who were sentenced under the mandatory career-offender guideline filed timely § 2255 motions within one year of Johnson v. U…
18-5217 Audy Perez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-12 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act collateral-review due-process johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states residual-clause retroactivity section-2255-motion sentencing sentencing-enhancement successive-2255-motion successive-habeas vagueness welch-v-united-states Are federal courts precluded from granting a federal prisoner's successive 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion to vacate an illegal sentence in light of Johnson w…