| 25A371 |
Rashun Suncar v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-09-30 |
Presumed Complete |
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categorical-approach controlled-substance fourth-circuit state-court-deference statutory-interpretation supreme-court-rule-10 |
Question not identified. |
| 25A4 |
Karu Gene White v. Laura Plappert, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-07-01 |
Presumed Complete |
|
certiorari-standard federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance state-court-deference supreme-court-precedent |
Question not identified. |
| 23A1118 |
Darryl Scott Stinski v. Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-06-17 |
Presumed Complete |
|
aedpa capital-punishment federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance state-court-deference |
Whether, where a habeas petitioner challenges state court factual findings "based entirely on the state record," a federal court reviews those finding… |
| 23-6755 |
Robert Ybarra, Jr. v. William Gittere, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-02-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa aedpa-deference atkins-v-virginia death-penalty federal-habeas habeas-corpus intellectual-disability state-court-deference state-court-review supreme-court-review |
Robert Ybarra, Jr., is on death row in Nevada. He is intellectually disabled.
During a state court hearing on his claim under Atkins v. Virginia, 536 … |
| 23-651 |
John Lowery v. Mike Parris, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-12-15 |
Denied |
|
actual-innocence constitutional-claims constitutional-review credibility-findings eyewitness-recantation gateway-innocence recantation sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-deference state-court-deference suppressed-evidence |
I. Whether the Sixth Circuit, after applying a blanket rule of deference, erroneously deferred to the state court's credibility findings when reviewin… |
| 23-31 |
Willie James Pye v. Shawn Emmons, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-07-11 |
Denied |
|
aedpa eleventh-circuit federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus state-court-decision state-court-deference statutory-interpretation wilson-v-sellers |
1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit's novel construction
of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)—under which a state prisoner is ineligible for federal habeas relief even … |
| 22-7244 |
Jose Ramon Cruz v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining sixth-amendment state-court-decision state-court-deference strickland strickland-standard |
When a State court's summary denial assumed the truth of the facts plead in a State habeas writ application and a Federal habeas court, pursuant to 28… |
| 22-686 |
Crosley Alexander Green v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-01-24 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response Waived |
admissibility AEDPA brady-v-maryland brady-violation comity constitutional-exhaustion federal-appellate-review federalism habeas-corpus prosecutorial-disclosure state-court-deference state-court-factfinding |
Principles of federalism and comity embodied in the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA), 28 U.S.C. § 2254, require deference to stat… |
| 21-1053 |
Randall Hepp, Warden v. Danny L. Wilber |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-01-28 |
Denied |
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aedpa-review criminal-procedure deck-v-missouri due-process federal-habeas habeas-corpus judicial-restraint jury-trial shackling state-conviction state-court-deference |
During Danny Wilber's jury trial in 2005 for fatally shooting a man at a party, Wilber became increasingly belligerent with the Milwaukee County Circu… |
| 21-1044 |
Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. v. James Nathaniel Bryant, III |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-01-26 |
Denied |
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capital-punishment capital-sentencing due-process fact-finding federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance state-court-deference |
In review of a claim fully adjudicated in state court, did the district court violate 28 U.S.C. § 2254's deference mandate and offend the principles o… |
| 21-862 |
Samuel Hartman v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-12-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
§2254-litigation 28-usc-2254 circuit-split comity comity-doctrine deference federal-habeas procedural-default state-court-deference state-post-conviction |
1. Whether the majority of circuits are correct that comity prevents Federal courts in proceedings under 28 U.S.C. 2254 from overturning legal conclus… |
| 21-5917 |
Darius Murphy v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-10-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence federal-court-review federal-review habeas-corpus state-court-deference state-court-procedure statutory-deference |
The question presented to this Court is whether the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit improperly
applied 28 U.S.C. §2254(d) , when it gave s… |
| 21-475 |
Deanna Brookhart, Warden v. Kenneth Smith |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-09-28 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
28-usc-2254 appellate-review evidence-sufficiency evidence-weighing federal-habeas habeas-corpus habeas-relief jackson-v-virginia reasonable-doubt standard-of-review state-court-deference |
Respondent Kenneth Smith has been tried and convicted on three separate occasions for Raul Briseno's murder. During the last two trials, the jury hear… |
| 21-5145 |
Richard Demon Donaldson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment state-court-deference statutory-interpretation |
WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS ERRED AND ABUSED.ITS DISCRETION IN REFUSING AND/OR DECLINING TO ISSUE A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY UPON THE CONTENTION … |
| 20-7782 |
Ronald W. Greer v. Sherie Korneman, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights cuyler-v-sullivan doyle-v-ohio doyle-violation harmless-error ineffective-counsel miranda-rights miranda-v-arizona newly-discovered-evidence state-court-deference |
I. HAS A PETITIONER SUBSTANTIALLY SHOWN THE DENIAL OF A CONSTITUTIONAL
RIGHT WARRANTING ISSUANCE OF A COA WHEN THE DISTRICT COURT AFFORDS
DEFERENCE … |
| 20-1084 |
Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections v. Matthew Reeves |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-02-09 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (1)Relisted (8) |
aedpa aedpa-standard comity federal-review federalism habeas-corpus habeas-review ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel state-court-deference strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
The question presented is whether the Eleventh Circuit violated § 2254(d) by readily attributing error to the state court. |
| 20-5802 |
Timothy W. Saunders v. Terry Raybon, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-09-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process exhausted-claim exhaustion federal-habeas federal-habeas-review martinez-v-ryan merits-adjudication post-conviction post-conviction-relief procedural-default state-court-deference state-court-proceedings |
What deference, if any, is due to a state court decision on an exhausted post-conviction claim when the decision arises from a system that does not gi… |
| 19-8352 |
K. S., III v. Dana Price, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2020-04-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
best-interests-of-child civil-rights due-process family-law involuntary-termination parental-rights standing state-court-deference substantial-contact termination-of-parental-rights |
Mr. Simmons alleges that the Court of Common Pleas. Superior Court and the Supreme Court erred in that natural father failed to show that he made the … |
| 19-7818 |
Kristopher Eric Benjamin v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-02-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims de-novo-review due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default state-court-deference strickland-v-washington |
I.
WHETHER UNDER §2254(e)(l) DISTRICT COURT REQUIRED TO GIVE DEFERENCE TO STATE
APPELLATE COURT'S FINDING OF HISTORICAL FACTS AND UPON FINDING THAT P… |
| 19-7646 |
Davion Fitzgerald v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach criminal-law due-deference federalism federalism-principles judicial-deference judicial-interpretation judicial-subjectivity sentencing-guidelines state-court-deference state-courts state-criminal-statutes state-statute statutory-interpretation |
May a federal court dismiss state precedent interpreting the state's own criminal statute as an "odd hypothetical" based on "legal imagination" to sub… |
| 19-6558 |
Antonio Lebaron Melton v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process federal-court-review federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-findings state-court state-court-deference strickland-v-washington trial-strategy wilson-v-sellers witness-investigation |
1. Whether Wilson v. Sellers requires faithful adherence to the last reasoned decision of a state court, or may federal courts bolster such a decision… |
| 19-6351 |
Geoffrey Elkington v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-standard state-court-deference trial-counsel |
Did the Third Circuit err in deferring to the State Court finding that Petitioner was not prejudiced by Petitioner's trial attorney failing to enter i… |
| 19-6298 |
John Steven Gardner v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability federal-court-review federal-habeas-proceedings fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miller-el-standard state-court-deference state-habeas strickland-v-washington wilson-v-sellers |
In Wilson v. Sellers, this Court instructed that a federal court should train its attention on the particular legal and factual reasons of the state-c… |
| 19-5862 |
Jorge Alberto Ramirez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-court deference-to-state-courts federal-habeas-corpus federal-habeas-relief federal-review fifth-circuit habeas-corpus habeas-proceedings ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel standard-of-review state-court-deference strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
In state habeas proceedings, Ramirez alleged that his trial counsel was ineffective for failing to investigate for, develop and present evidence in su… |
| 19-5814 |
Luis Armando Mesta v. John Myrick |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-advocacy appellate-procedure constitutional-rights counsel-performance ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel new-trial sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel state-court-deference state-court-review strickland-v-washington |
Twelve days after Mr. Mesta's appellate brief was filed, the Oregon Supreme Court took review of a legal principle that was at issue in Mr. Mesta's ca… |
| 19-5438 |
Jimmy Fletcher Meders v. Benjamin Ford, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 anti-flyspecking-rule circuit-court-procedure clearly-established-law eleventh-circuit federal-court-deference federal-review habeas habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review section-2254 standard-of-review state-court-decision state-court-deference wilson-v-sellers |
1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit's adherence to its self-styled "no-grading-papers, anti-flyspecking rule" for the application of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) i… |
| 19-5332 |
Todd J. Tibbs v. Randy Grounds, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa appellate-review factual-determination factual-determinations federal-court-review federal-habeas habeas-corpus prejudice-standard some-evidence standard state-court-deference |
1. Does federal habeas law allow the application of a "some evidence" standard in upholding state court factual determinations?
2. Is it correct to m… |
| 18-1421 |
Nassau County District Attorney's Office v. Mark Orlando |
Second Circuit |
2019-05-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (23) |
aedpa aedpa-deference bruton-v-united-states confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation deferential-review habeas-corpus murder-conviction state-court-deference supreme-court-precedent teague-v-lane tennessee-v-street |
1. Did the Court of Appeals violate the deferential review requirements of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) by setting aside a state murder conviction based on its… |
| 18-8666 |
Tremane Wood v. Mike Carpenter, Interim Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-04-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-court-review death-penalty federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-evidence state-court-deference strickland-standard strickland-test |
Tremane Wood was one of four defendants charged with crimes related to the death of Ronnie Wipf, which occurred in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on January … |
| 18-7431 |
Teddrick Batiste v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 death-penalty due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance organic-brain-damage procedural-bar state-court-deference wilson-v-sellers |
The post-conviction state court process in Batiste's case was inadequate for ascertaining the truth and lacked critical components of an adjudication … |
| 18-7414 |
Ray McArthur Freeney v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-15 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
28-usc-2254 civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence habeas-corpus material-evidence notice-and-hearing procedural-fairness state-court state-court-deference statutory-interpretation |
1) Whether deference is accorded to a state court decision under 28 U.S.C. §2254(d) where the state court received and relied upon material evidence a… |
| 18-6409 |
Scotty Garnell Morrow v. Benjamin Ford, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-23 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
28-usc-2254 clear-error due-process fact-finding federal-review habeas-corpus reasoned-opinion section-2254 state-court-adjudication state-court-deference |
Question 1
In Harrington v. Richter, 562 U.S. 86 (2011), this Court announced that where a state court issues a summary denial of a habeas petitioner… |