| 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… |
| 23-320 |
Heidi E. Washington, Director, Michigan Department of Corrections v. James Harrison Fox, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-09-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights compelling-interest compelling-state-interest corrections-policy cutter-v-wilkinson deference-standard prison-administration racial-unrest religious-freedom sixth-circuit-review |
Whether the Sixth Circuit failed to give adequate deference under Cutter v. Wilkinson, 544 U.S. 709 (2005), to the Michigan Department of Corrections'… |
| 22-6830 |
Michael Joseph Loukas v. Sarah Schroeder, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-02-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
404(b) due-process evidence-standard ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion medication-warning-labels prior-bad-acts prosecutorial-misconduct separation-of-powers sixth-circuit-review |
Was the Sixth Circuit decision based on an unreasonable determination of the facts |
| 21-72 |
Khalid M. Turaani v. Christopher Wray, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-07-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
adverse-effect constitutional-rights government-disclosure privacy-act reputation second-amendment sixth-circuit-review standing standing-doctrine traceability |
Whether the standing analysis for Privacy Act improper disclosure claims requires determining if the plaintiff sufficiently alleged an 'adverse effect… |
| 20-7918 |
Jasper Pollini v. Amy Robey, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-05-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-counsel habeas-corpus harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lockhart-v-fretwell sixth-amendment sixth-circuit-review smith-v-robbins strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether Lockhart v. Fretwell's suggestion that 'mere outcome determination' is not sufficient to establish prejudice under Strickland v. Washington is… |
| 20-7086 |
Michael Fetherolf v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-interpretation cumulative-error due-process habeas-corpus hearsay jackson-v-virginia sixth-circuit-review suspension-clause |
Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in applying a death penalty sentencing review in a non-death penalty case |
| 20-507 |
Tony Mays, Warden v. Anthony Darrell Dugard Hines |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-10-16 |
Judgment Issued |
Relisted (4) |
antiterrorism-act antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act capital-trial death-penalty habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-review strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether the Sixth Circuit's decision conflicts with the Court's precedents governing claims of ineffective assistance of counsel under the Antiterrori… |
| 20-5956 |
Tracy Lynn Cope v. Randy Lee, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-10-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa aedpa-standard brady-v-maryland brady-violation confidential-informant criminal-trial due-process prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-review |
Whether the Sixth Circuit's property applied the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA) in denying Petition relief where in the… |
| 19-824 |
Lonnie Lee Owens v. Mike Parris, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-12-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
blakely-error compromise-verdict disputed-facts harmless-error judicial-fact-finding sentencing-enhancement sixth-circuit-review subjective-assessment witness-credibility |
Whether a Blakely error is harmless when the jury returned a compromise verdict and the sentencing enhancement at issue required a subjective assessme… |
| 19-770 |
Jason C. Underwood v. Shawn Phillips, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-12-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-relief ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan procedural-default sixth-amendment sixth-circuit-review trevino-v-thaler |
Whether the District Court properly interpreted Underwood's Martinez v. Ryan claims when his state post-conviction counsel and trial counsel were inef… |
| 19-6727 |
Tyrone Marvin Andrews v. Noah Nagy, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alibi-defense civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-minimum-sentence plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment sixth-circuit-review strickland-v-washington trial-counsel |
Whether trial counsel was ineffective for failing to investigate an alibi defense at trial |
| 18-9329 |
Sean M. Barnhill v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-standard certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus judicial-procedure pro-se-petition section-2255 sixth-amendment sixth-circuit-review standard-of-review |
Did the Sixth Circuit err by exceeding the scope of the COA analysis |
| 18-6454 |
Charles Nash v. Shawn Phillips, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-trevino martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-counsel post-conviction-relief procedural-default sixth-circuit-review trevino-v-thaler |
Whether a post-conviction attorney's failure to argue or present proof in support of raised substantial ineffective assistance of trial counsel claims… |
| 18-5938 |
Mark David Bailey v. Noah Nagy, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-evidence habeas-corpus sixth-amendment sixth-circuit-review suppression-of-evidence |
Can a fairminded jurist exclude expert evidence indicating that someone else committed a murder based solely on the jurist's lay disagreement with the… |
| 18-5831 |
Willie Riley Curry v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 6th-circuit age-of-victim byrd-v-united-states carpenter-v-united-states criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment gvr plain-error scienter search-and-seizure sixth-circuit-review statutory-interpretation |
Does Carpenter and Byrd require a GVR in this case? |
| 18-5358 |
Brigitte Reynolds v. Anthony Stewart, Warden, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-court access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights district-court-dismissal due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion pro-se-plaintiff procedural-prejudice retaliation sixth-circuit-review standing summary-judgment |
Whether the district court improperly decided disputed factual issues and dismissed the case with prejudice, and whether the Sixth Circuit Court impro… |
| 18-5006 |
Steven William Deuman, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
dna-evidence due-process indian-major-crimes-act ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment sixth-circuit-review strickland strickland-v-washington tribal-enrollment |
Was counsel's decision to forego utilizing a DNA expert defense witness and agreeing to the government's stipulation of Tribal Enrollment a reasonable… |