state-court-decisions

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6390 Busch Sereal v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split crime-of-violence overbreadth-doctrine sentencing-enhancement state-court-decisions statutory-interpretation Whether a defendant challenging a prior state conviction under the crime of violence definitions must produce actual state court decisions showing non…
24-6396 Ryan Perrin v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-01-27 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-procedure prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement state-court-decisions When applying the categorical approach to determine whether a prior state conviction qualifies as a predicate for the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA)…
24-5776 Richard Allen Harris, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-17 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-split predicate-offense sentencing-enhancement state-court-decisions Whether federal courts should consult the most recent state court decisions or pre-conviction state court decisions when determining the elements of a…
23-5388 Clifton Lyles v. South Carolina South Carolina 2023-08-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure constitutional-review due-process habeas-corpus legal-precedent post-conviction-relief procedural-bar state-court-decisions state-court-procedure statutory-interpretation subsequent-application Whether McHam v. State, 404 S.C. 465, 746 S.E.2d 41 (2013), requires that the petitioner be allowed to file a subsequent PCR application
23-5259 Ryan Lewis Hilyard v. Wyoming Wyoming 2023-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review conflict-of-interest due-process equal-protection federal-rules-of-evidence fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel state-court-decisions Did the Wyoming Supreme Court apply and follow Federal Rules of Evidence correctly?
22-7879 Olyric Robinson v. California California 2023-06-27 Denied IFP appellate-review california-procedure constitutional-rights due-process hit-and-run mandated-procedures parole-decision-making-instrument parole-revocation state-court-decisions substantial-evidence Whether the state courts of California rendered decisions in violation of precedents established by other state courts of last resort or United States…
22-7160 Daniel J. Rios v. New Jersey New Jersey 2023-03-30 Denied IFP appellate-procedure constitutional-challenge court-rule criminal-sentencing due-process federal-case-law post-conviction-relief post-conviction-review rehabilitation rehabilitative-efforts sentencing state-court-decisions Whether Rule 3:21-10(b) authorizes a reviewing court to reconsider a sentence based upon post-conviction rehabilitative efforts
22-6613 Robert Nathaniel Brown v. Florida Florida 2023-01-24 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment standard-of-review state-court-decisions Strickland-v-Washington Whether the state appellate court misapplied Harrington v. Richter
22-6509 Roosevelt Mondesir v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP §2254-petition 28-usc-2254 federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation reasonableness-review state-court-decision state-court-decisions wilson-v-sellers Did the 11th U.S. Circuit Court err in interpreting Wilson v. Sellers to allow federal habeas courts to consider justifications not provided by the st…
22-5332 Jerome Mellion v. Louisiana Louisiana 2022-08-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection manslaughter pro-se state-court-decisions state-supreme-court Did the Louisiana state supreme court violate the federal U.S. 14th amendment to the federal constitution 'equal protection' of law guarantees
22-5086 Nouboukpo Gassesse v. University of Connecticut Connecticut 2022-07-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP 14th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection motion-for-default state-court-decisions summary-judgment trial-court-procedure Whether the plaintiff's 14th-amendment-due-process rights were violated by the trial court's alleged unequal treatment of the parties
21-7905 Marc Anthony Sanders v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-05-18 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure ex-post-facto jurisdictional-conflict non-retroactivity oklahoma-court state-court-decisions subject-matter-jurisdiction supreme-court tenth-circuit Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals' use of a new non-retroactivity doctrine to deny Petitioner's subject-matter jurisdiction claim is vali…
21-7562 Michael Tyler v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-04-06 Denied IFP administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-review civil-rights due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus regulatory-compliance state-court-decisions statutory-interpretation Whether the Court of Appeals misapplied 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) in denying the petitioner's claim that the state court's decision was contrary to or an un…
21-846 John Montenegro Cruz v. Arizona Arizona 2021-12-07 Judgment Issued Amici (9)Relisted (2) capital-punishment collateral-review due-process federal-law parole-ineligibility retroactivity state-court-decisions supreme-court Whether the rule in Simmons v. South Carolina, as applied in Lynch v. Arizona, must be applied retroactively to cases pending on collateral review
20-5801 James Rogers v. Florida Florida 2020-09-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-claims federal-habeas-review federal-review habeas-corpus legal-precedent state-court-decisions supremacy-clause virginia-v-leblanc Whether Florida courts are refusing to consider Eighth Amendment claims in violation of the Supremacy Clause by treating Virginia v. LeBlanc, 137 S. C…
19-8042 Lewis Taylor Jr. v. Florida Florida 2020-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa constitutional-claim constitutional-claims eighth-amendment federal-habeas federal-habeas-review merits-decision state-court-decision state-court-decisions state-court-interpretation supreme-court-review Whether the Florida Supreme Court erred in treating Virginia v. LeBlanc, 137 S. Ct. 1726 (2017) (per curiam), a case arising under federal habeas revi…
19-7455 Ronson Kyle Bush v. Tommy Sharp, Interim Warden Tenth Circuit 2020-01-28 Denied IFP antiterrorism-act antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act certificate-of-appealability clearly-established-federal-law constitutional-standards death-penalty eighth-amendment federal-law fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus habeas-review state-court-decisions state-court-review unreasonableness Whether the 'clearly established Federal law' provision of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act renders state court decisions categorical…
19-7284 Bobby Y. Wallace, Jr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2020-01-14 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-deference certificate-of-appealability criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment federalism gross-disproportionality habitual-offender insufficient-evidence jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia judicial-review no-evidence proportionality-review sentencing state-court-decisions Could reasonable jurists debate whether the state court decision to affirm Petitioner's sentence is contrary to or an unreasonable application of the …
19-6863 In Re Melvin Bonnell 2019-12-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-law due-process federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus retroactive-application retroactivity sixth-circuit state-court-decisions teague-doctrine teague-standard Whether a state court's merits decision applying a new rule of constitutional law opens up federal review
18-9159 Freddy Brown v. Florida Florida 2019-05-06 Denied IFP aedpa constitutional-claim constitutional-claims constitutional-question eighth-amendment federal-habeas federal-habeas-review federal-review habeas-review legal-interpretation merits-decision merits-determination state-court state-court-decisions supreme-court-precedent Whether the Florida Supreme Court erred in treating Virginia v. LeBlanc, 137 S. Ct. 1726 (2017), a case arising under federal habeas review, as a deci…
18-9152 Gary Reid v. Florida Florida 2019-05-06 Denied IFP aedpa constitutional-claims constitutional-question eighth-amendment federal-habeas federal-habeas-review federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation legal-precedent merits-decision state-court state-court-decisions supreme-court-review Whether the Florida Supreme Court erred in treating Virginia v. LeBlanc, 137 S. Ct. 1726 (2017), as a decision on the merits of the underlying constit…
18-9092 Juan Lopez-Hernandez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-felony categorical-approach civil-rights crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process elements-of-state-statute immigration permanent-resident removal-order state-court-decisions statutory-interpretation Whether federal courts applying the categorical approach must rely on state court decisions that establish the elements of state court statute of conv…
18-9080 Joseph Carter v. Florida Florida 2019-05-01 Denied IFP aedpa constitutional-claims constitutional-interpretation eighth-amendment federal-habeas-review federal-review graham-v-florida habeas-corpus habeas-review judicial-interpretation legal-precedent merits-decision miller-v-alabama parole state-court-decisions supreme-court-review Whether the Florida Supreme Court erred in treating Virginia v. LeBlanc, 137 S. Ct. 1726 (2017), as a decision on the merits of the underlying constit…
18-85 Pamela B. Stuart v. Catherine S. Ryan, et al. Florida 2018-07-18 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment constitutional-remedies due-process judicial-takings just-compensation property-rights state-court-decisions state-courts takings-clause Whether the Takings Clause applies to the decisions of state courts, and, if so, under what circumstances may this Court review and remedy state judic…