state-court-record
9 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-6335 | Jake Paul Heiney v. Ashley Richardson, Director, Lucas County Adult Probation Department, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2025-12-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability district-court evidentiary-review habeas-corpus reasonable-jurists state-court-record | 1. Whether a district court must review evidence in the state-court record when the habeas petitioner alleges it demonstrates that the state court unr… |
| 24-255 | Darryl Scott Stinski v. Shawn Emmons, Warden | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-09-06 | Denied | Amici (5) | deferential-review evidentiary-standard federal-habeas habeas-corpus state-court-record statutory-interpretation | Whether the evidentiary standard in § 2254(e)(1) does not apply when a state prisoner seeks federal habeas relief solely on the state court evidentiar… |
| 24-5067 | Stephen Mark Picart v. Marcus Pollard, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2024-07-12 | Denied | IFP | 28-usc-2254 constitutional-claim due-process federal-law habeas-corpus hypothetical-analysis ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel state-court-record state-court-review tactical-choices | Whether the federal court can 'hypothesize' about possible 'tactical choices' trial counsel might have made on the basis of facts that were unreasonab… |
| 23-6037 | Stephanie N. Torres v. Molly Hill, Acting Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2023-11-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2254 aedpa attempted-murder habeas-corpus state-court-record sufficiency-of-evidence | When may a federal court bypass a state court's factual findings and rely on the state court record to adjudicate a habeas petitioner's claims? |
| 21-6536 | In Re Michael Robert Everett | 2021-12-07 | Denied | IFP | 5th-amendment civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process evidence federal-habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief state-court-record suppression-hearing unreasonable-determination | Whether counsel was ineffective for failing to present to the court during suppression hearing evidence that the petitioner seeks to raise when invoki… | |
| 21-5871 | Stephret R. Harvey v. Jason Kent, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2021-10-05 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review prosecution-bar state-court-record statute-of-limitations time-limitations | Was counsel's performance deficient when counsel failed to conduct an independent investigation concerning the time limitations once the institution o… |
| 19-6311 | Adam Douglas Boylen v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-10-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights claim-exhaustion constitutional-law due-process foreclosure habeas-corpus ninth-circuit petition-preclusion procedural-default record standing state-court-record takings | Whether the court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims based on the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment |
| 19-84 | Lawrence Mulligan v. Bruce Jalbert, et ux. | Second Circuit | 2019-07-16 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-estoppel due-process full-faith-and-credit state-court-record summary-judgment | Whether the United States Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the granting of summary judgment based on collateral-estoppel without reference … |
| 18-5572 | John E. Wells, Sr. v. David Gray, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2018-08-13 | Denied | IFP | certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus illegal-sentence judicial-power jury-trial res-judicata state-court-record void-judgment | Does a Federal Court of Appeals deny Due Process by refusing to issue a Certificate of Appealability |