| 25-6247 |
Jackie Lee Brooks v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability due-process ineffective-assistance proffer-agreement slack-v-mcdaniel |
1. Whether a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petitioner who alleges
constitutionally ineffective assistance of counsel for faling to
object to the Government's Due… |
| 24-5127 |
Lamar Z. Brooks v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-07-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253c certificate-of-appealability certificate-of-appealability-coa constitutional-review eleventh-circuit federal-court-litigation federal-habeas habeas-corpus miller-el-v-cockrell slack-v-mcdaniel |
1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals' pro forma, nonindividualized, blanket denial of a certificate of appealability (COA) complies with t… |
| 23-7470 |
Christopher L. Takhvar v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-05-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process edwards-v-arizona ex-post-facto fundamental-rights habeas-corpus retroactive-criminalization slack-v-mcdaniel |
1A He appeal of the duial fa 28 e224 Pebtion
t>/ Raeary ee lo "MMer-El v Cockrell 37 VS 322"
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| 23-6752 |
Patrick W. Wharen, Sr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims eleventh-circuit federal-law jurisdictional-prerequisites miller-v-cockrell slack-v-mcdaniel supreme-court-precedent |
WHETHER ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS MISAPPLIED FEDERAL LAW WHEN DECIDING MERITS OF FEDERAL CONSTITUTIONAL CLAIMS WITHOUT GRANTING CERTIFICATE OF… |
| 23-5836 |
Siddhanth Sharma v. Eddie M. Buffaloe, Jr., Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim constitutional-rights factual-innocence legal-innocence mcquiggin-v-perkins procedural-bar procedural-default sandstrom-claim slack-v-mcdaniel |
1.) To be issued a COA : Does the claim of Factual Innocence qualify as a
debatable claim for the denial of a Constitutional Right as enunciated in
Sl… |
| 23-5689 |
Philip Jones v. Charles Schuyler, Acting Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miller-el-v-cockrell ninth-circuit slack-v-mcdaniel |
Did the Ninth Circuit's refusal to issue a certificate of appealability for Jones's ineffective assistance of counsel claim conflict with this Court's… |
| 22-6501 |
Michael A. Hagar v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 bracy-v-gramley certificate-of-appealability due-process judicial-misconduct miller-el-v-cockrell procedural-default section-2255 slack-v-mcdaniel speedy-trial |
QUESTION ONE
The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erred when it did not
issue a Certificate of Appealability as the Petitioner
met the requirement und… |
| 22-5368 |
Kultar S. Goraya v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appealability certificate-of-appealability certiorari civil-rights due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus slack-v-mcdaniel standard-of-review |
WHETHER THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS APPLIED AN IMPROPER HEIGHTENED STANDARD UNDER SLACK V. MCDANIAL, 120 S.Ct 1595 at 1604 (2000) AND BUCK V… |
| 21-7652 |
Damian Scott Olvera v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-04-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment 8th-circuit certificate-of-appealability circuit-court constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review miller-el-v-cockrell slack-v-mcdaniel |
Whether the Eighth Circuit's Court of Appeals misapplied the standard for issuing a Certificate of Appealability as dictated by §2253(c)(2) and this C… |
| 21-7411 |
Richard E. Platt v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-03-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
11th-circuit appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default slack-standard slack-v-mcdaniel standard-of-review |
WHETHER THE 11™ CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN DENYING THE CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY PURSUANT TO SLACK V. MCDANIEL, 529 U.S.473, 120 S.Ct. 1595 … |
| 21-7131 |
Bobby Ray Jones v. Phillip Mitchell, Warden, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-02-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review pro-se schlup-v-delo slack-v-mcdaniel |
WHETHER THE COURTS BELOW ERRED IN DENYING JONES A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY TO REVIEW THE COURTS ERRONEOUS AND CONTRARY APPLICATION OF THIS COURT'S… |
| 21-6732 |
Julio Cesar Cardenas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
castro-v-united-states civil-rights due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus mandates nonfrivolous-claims notice-and-opportunity procedural-rule slack-v-mcdaniel supreme-court supreme-court-mandate |
1. HAS THE FIFTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS EFFECTIVELY ESTABLISHED A PROCEDURAL RULE TO EFFACE yMUli ABRIDGE . OR ABROGATE THE SUPREME COURT*S • MANDAT… |
| 21-527 |
Jeffery Mitchell v. Leonta Jackson, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-10-08 |
Denied |
|
aedpa buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge habeas-corpus slack-v-mcdaniel statute-of-limitations void-ab-initio void-statute |
1) Has the Supreme Court of the United States Abandoned its own precedent in Norton v. Shelby County, 118 U.S. 425, 6 S.Ct. 1121, 30 L.Ed. 178 (1886),… |
| 21-5741 |
Jonathan Godwin v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 abandonment-of-claims certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim constitutional-claims district-court habeas-corpus procedural-ruling procedural-rulings slack-v-mcdaniel |
1. WHETHER AN APPLICANT HAS TO DEMONSTRATE BOTH THE DEBATABILITY OF CONSTITUTIONAL CLAIM(S) AND THE DEBATABILITY OF PROCEDURAL RULING(S), BEFORE ISSUA… |
| 21-5613 |
Byron McCollum v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-09-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253c certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights eleventh-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review merits-determination slack-v-mcdaniel unauthorized-merits-determination |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit's denial of a Certificate of Appealability, stating only that the Petitioner "has failed to make a substantial showing of… |
| 21-5339 |
Joseph Miller v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-08-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-right due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-warrant-evidence slack-v-mcdaniel |
As a matter of first impression in this court, pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 10(C). does an attorney 's failure to advise his client of the adverse r… |
| 20-8129 |
Joseph Miller v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights direct-appeal evidentiary-hearing fifth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel slack-v-mcdaniel |
I.
As a matter of first impression in this court, pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 10(C), does
an attorney 's failure to advise his client of the adver… |
| 20-6209 |
Louis Sanders v. Charles Williams, Jr., Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-11-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus miller-el-standard slack-v-mcdaniel standard-of-review threshold-inquiry |
CERTIORARI SHOULD ISSUE TO REVIEW THE JUDGEMENT BELOW WHERE THE FOURTH CIRCUIT DENIED CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILTY IN CONFLICT WITH RELEVANT DECISIONS … |
| 19-8301 |
Stephen J. Mocco v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-04-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey brady-v-maryland brady-violation certificate-of-appealability sixth-amendment slack-standard slack-v-mcdaniel townsend-hearing townsend-v-sain |
Question #1:
In Hohn v. United States , 524 U.S. 236, 253 (1998), this Court held that it has
authority and jurisdiction to review denials of applicat… |
| 19-8089 |
Michael W. Jenkins v. Brigitte Amsberry |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability federal-appellate-procedure habeas-corpus ninth-circuit slack-standard slack-v-mcdaniel statutory-interpretation statutory-standard |
Does the Ninth Circuit's ruling, denying a Certificate of Appealabiliy to a habeas corpus petitioner, contravene the statutory standard, under 28 U.S.… |
| 19-7908 |
Larry Rashone Prunty v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
11th-circuit 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus slack-v-mcdaniel |
DID THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT ERR WHEN APPLYING THE TWO PRONG SLACK V. MCDANIEL, TEST (PROCEDURE AND MERITS) IN DETE… |
| 19-936 |
Terry Trentacosta v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-27 |
Denied |
|
28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure evidentiary-hearing federal-habeas habeas-corpus slack-v-mcdaniel state-prisoner |
Should a state prisoner take a separate, direct appeal of the denial of an evidentiary hearing in a federal habeas case when no "certificate of appeal… |
| 19-7119 |
Larry Bell v. Kevin Ransom, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-12-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeals appellate-review civil-procedure due-process federal-rule-60b federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction legal-standard slack-v-mcdaniel standing third-circuit |
WHETHER REASONABLE JURIST COULD DEBATE THE THIRD
CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ADOPTION THAT THE DISTRICT
COURT'S RULING THAT APPELLANT WAS NOT ENTITLED TO… |
| 19-6808 |
Phillip E. Smith v. Collins, First Name Unknown, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability cumulative-error due-process fourteenth-amendment insufficient-evidence miller-el-v-cockrell ninth-circuit severance sixth-amendment slack-v-mcdaniel trial-severance video-evidence |
Did the Ninth Circuit err in denying a certificate of appealability to a petitioner who raised four substantial claims that his conviction was unconst… |
| 18-9540 |
Clifton D. Harvin v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-04 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence actual-innocence-exception aedpa district-court due-process federal-review fifth-circuit habeas-corpus mcquiggin-v-perkins miscarriage-of-justice slack-v-mcdaniel statute-of-limitations |
When a Petitioner relies upon the McQuiggin V Perkins 133 S.Ct. 1924 miscarriage of justice actual innoccence exception to overcome the AEDPA one year… |
| 18-9392 |
Brent Edward Lovett v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure arbitrary-enforcement constitutional-rights debatable due-process fundamental-fairness ineffective-counsel jurists-of-reason slack-v-mcdaniel |
Petitioner Brent Edward Lovett (Prisoner in Custody of BOP, RRC) moves this Court to remand the case back to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, for t… |
| 18-8717 |
Hanoi Barbaro Acosta v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2244 actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-petitioner federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-proceedings slack-v-mcdaniel |
DOES THE BLANKET DENIAL OF A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY BY THE DISTRICT COURT VIOLATE THE RULE ANNOUNCED IN SLACK V. MCDANIEL?
DOES 28 U.S.C. § 224… |
| 18-8527 |
Rene Rivera v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial foreign-born-national intellectual-disability language-barrier miller-el-v-cockrell post-conviction-counsel post-conviction-relief slack-v-mcdaniel standard-of-review |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida apply an inc… |
| 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 IT'S DISCRETION BY NOT ALLOWI… |
| 18-8017 |
Jacoby Kindred v. Jeff Titus, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-02-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
barefoot-standard barefoot-v-estelle certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process federal-courts habeas habeas-corpus procedural-default procedural-grounds slack-standard slack-v-mcdaniel standard-of-review |
In cases where a federal district court dismisses a habeas petition based on procedural grounds and is determining whether to issue a certificate of a… |
| 18-7081 |
Marlon Dantruce Williams v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims due-process false-testimony giglio giglio-v-united-states habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review prosecutorial-misconduct slack-v-mcdaniel standing summary-judgment |
1. Whether Slack v. McDaniel, 529 U.S. 473 (2000), requires a court of appeals to issue a certificate of appealability to a prisoner to challenge a di… |
| 18-7048 |
Jimmy Lawrence Nance v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process extraordinary-circumstances fourth-circuit habeas-corpus slack-v-mcdaniel |
WHETHER THE FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN DENYING A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY BY FAILING TO ASSES THE EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCES PRESEN… |
| 18-5990 |
Omar Odale Brockman v. Erick Balcarcel, Acting Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
AEDPA aedpa-statute-of-limitations certificate-of-appealability federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus procedural-rulings slack-v-mcdaniel statute-of-limitations subject-matter-jurisdiction us-v-cotton |
Q1. Does petitioner Brockman properly asserts that Sup. Ct. R. 10(c) warrant him certiorari relief because the sixth circuit court of appeals resoluti… |