state-appellate-court
12 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-6510 | Tilon Lashon Carter v. Texas | Texas | 2026-01-07 | Pending | IFP | due-process evidence-exclusion fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus postconviction-relief state-appellate-court | In a state postconviction habeas corpus proceeding in which the petitioner alleged that a material witness testified falsely at trial, does it violate… |
| 25-5169 | Richard Patrick Evensen v. California | California | 2025-07-22 | Denied | IFP | force rape sexual-assault state-appellate-court substantial-evidence unconscious-state | QUESTION ONE Does the record support the state appellate court's holding that substantial evidence supported a finding that petitioner used force to o… |
| 23-7671 | James Chamblin v. Ohio | Ohio | 2024-06-07 | Denied | IFP | amendment constitutional-rights due-process due-process-clause equal-protection fourteenth-amendment indictment indictment-amendment pleading-recasting recasting-of-pleadings state-appellate-court | Does a State Appellate Court violate a Petitioner's right to Due Process under the United States Constitution, when a court recast a litigants pleadin… |
| 23-6684 | Anthony Earl Ridley v. Thomas L. Williams, Warden | Tenth Circuit | 2024-02-06 | Denied | IFP | actual-innocence aedpa civil-procedure federal-district-court habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance presumption-of-correctness procedural-default state-appellate-court | 1. Did the U.S. district Court contravene the requirement of Act 28 U.S.C. § 2254(b) and jdt? 2. When a State Prisoner failed to use available State … |
| 22-6650 | Antonio Rooks-Byrd, aka Abdur-Rashid Muhammad v. Court of Appeals of Nebraska | Nebraska | 2023-01-27 | Dismissed | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-court civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure jurisdiction standing state-appellate-court | 1. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits a state appellate court from adjudicating an application or motion in … |
| 22-5837 | Micah S. Matthews v. Iowa | Iowa | 2022-10-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment due-process ineffective-assistance jury-instructions post-conviction-relief state-appellate-court successive-petition summary-judgment unmitigated-claim | (1) Is a state appellate court's refusal to allow a petitioner to file a successive petition for PostConviction Relief on an unmitigated, meritorious … |
| 21-6866 | Richard R. Lawless v. Kat Mulder, et al. | District of Columbia | 2022-01-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | anti-slapp anti-slapp-statute civil-procedure civil-rights court-discovery discovery due-process jury-trial prejudice-dismissal seventh-amendment state-appellate-court | Plaintiff was denied access to a jury trial and court discovery violating his seventh amendment rights through the courts inappropriate application of… |
| 19-6751 | DeAngelo Pantalion Williams v. California | California | 2019-11-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-court arbitrary-denial constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment retroactive-application state-appellate-court state-law | 1. Whether a state appellate court's arbitrary denial of a defendant's request for the retroactive application of a new state law constitutes a violat… |
| 19-6110 | Abimael Ayala-Gonzalez v. New York | New York | 2019-10-01 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review brady-violation constitutional-duty criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification federal-claim ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel meaningful-representation-standard performance-prejudice-test prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment state-appellate-court strickland-standard strickland-v-washington | During voir dire, my trial counsel repeatedly referred to me as a drug dealer, supplying the prosecution with a motive that would never have survived … |
| 18-6753 | Jesse Mendez v. Gary Swarthout, Warden, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-11-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2254 28-usc-2255 district-court federal-review habeas-corpus habeas-petition harrington-v-richter judicial-deference reasoned-decision state-appellate-court state-court state-court-decision statutory-interpretation | When a state court denied a habeas claim without a reasoned decision, in assessing whether "there was no reasonable basis for the state court to deny … |
| 18-5283 | David McGowan v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2018-07-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment 8th-amendment appellate-court appellate-review due-process habeas-corpus state-appellate-court state-court unconstitutional-sentence unlitigated-claim | Is a state appellate court's unexplained refusal to allow a petitioner to file for state provided avenue of writ of habeas corpus releif on an unlitig… |
| 18-5110 | Abron Spraggins v. Rusty Washburn, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2018-07-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review cause-and-prejudice civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process federal-claim federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-decisions procedural-default state-appellate-court | IS THE DECISION OF THE COURT OF APPEALS REGARDING THE PROCEDURAL DEFAULT OF PETITIONER'S INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL CLAIMS IN CONFLICT WITH OR … |