state-misconduct

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-7614 Melvin Bonnell v. Bill Cool, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-06-03 Denied IFP actual-innocence bad-faith brady-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence federal-habeas habeas-corpus state-misconduct youngblood youngblood-claim When bad faith is uncovered years after the petitioner fully litigated his initial habeas petition, should a Youngblood claim be considered newly ripe…
22-7666 Bayardo R. Sandy v. The Baca Grande Property Owners Association Colorado 2023-05-30 Denied Relisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation cover-up due-process equal-protection legal-jurisdiction petitioner-rights state-misconduct Did Colorado violate Petitioner Bayardo Sandy's Civil Rights?
22-7612 Bayardo R. Sandy v. The Baca Grande Property Owners Association Colorado 2023-05-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion civil-rights constitutional-violation cover-up due-process equal-protection judicial-review legal-remedy standing state-misconduct Did Colorado violate Petitioner Bayardo Sandy's Civil Rights?
22-7087 Michael James Hoffman v. United States District Court for the District of Arizona Ninth Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence-manipulation fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment grand-jury right-to-counsel sixth-amendment state-misconduct trial-misconduct Did the State violate the Petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to counsel and due process?
22-7080 James A. v. Connecticut Connecticut 2023-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence federal-habeas federal-rights malicious-prosecution state-misconduct wrongful-conviction Whether an innocent petitioner should be granted relief when the state convicted against exonerating evidence with malice and indifference
22-6528 Charles Jordan v. Trina Davidson Brooks, Sixteenth District Judicial Assistant District Attorney, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-error due-process habeas habeas-corpus misconduct post-trial-plea procedural-default state-misconduct trial-procedure Should the State be allowed to assert procedural default rules to preclude federal habeas review where their efforts of misconduct and IAC caused cons…
21-7533 Ion Stanciu v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-04-05 Denied IFP constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process expert-witness fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance medical-evidence state-misconduct When a state together with state's expert witness change the original version of medical evidence into a new complete different version, to link the a…
21-6519 Jesse Driskill v. Missouri Missouri 2021-12-06 Denied IFP brady-violation brady-violations constitutional-claims constitutional-review due-process evidence-destruction factual-findings independent-review prosecutorial-misconduct state-misconduct witness-testimony Whether Missouri's verbatim adoption of the prosecution's factually deficient findings without independent review fails to provide adequate due proces…
21-6033 Larry Gene Francis v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-10-20 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial material-facts parole-violation state-misconduct testimony Was petitioner subjected to Double Jeopardy?
20-630 Benjamin Scott Brewer v. Tennessee Tennessee 2020-11-10 Denied Response Waived brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence-tampering exculpatory-evidence forensic-evidence material-evidence state-misconduct Whether this Court's ruling in Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963) and its progeny entitle a defendant to the knowledge, before trial, that a state …
19-6732 Martin Stanley Ivie v. Washington Washington 2019-11-22 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process evidence-tampering false-arrest false-evidence perjury police-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct state-misconduct wrongful-conviction Whether state officials can use forged evidence to convict a U.S. citizen
18-5782 Michael Lynn Cook v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus judicial-remedies procedural-timeliness state-misconduct state-waiver statute-of-limitations Does the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals decision conflict with a decision of the Tenth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals?
18-5113 Solomon V. Hester v. Kevin Sprayberry Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 brady-claim brady-violation direct-appeal due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel state-misconduct witness-intimidation witness-tampering Did the petitioner receive constitutionally ineffective assistance of counsel?