state-prisoner
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-870 | In Re Delmart Vreeland | 2026-01-21 | Pending | constitutional-violations fabricated-evidence habeas-corpus jurisdiction state-prisoner writ-of-certiorari | I. WHETHER THIS COURT'S POWER TO ISSUE A WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS SHOULD BE EXERCISED WHEN A STATE PRISONER IS CONFINED BY A COURT WITHOUT JURISDICTION A… | ||
| 25-558 | John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections v. Michael Sockwell | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-11-07 | Pending | batson-challenge equitable-remedy federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-deference state-prisoner | 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit violated 28 U.S.C. §2254. 2. Whether a federal court may grant habeas relief to a guilty state prisoner upon identify… | |
| 25-5719 | In Re Flenoid Greer | 2025-09-24 | Dismissed | IFP | constitutional-violation exceptional-circumstances federal-review habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief state-prisoner | Where a State Prisoner is unconstitutionally detained and the State's post-conviction rules foreclose relief, and no other adequate relief is availabl… | |
| 25-5575 | Kevin Don Foster v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-09-08 | Denied | IFP | certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-split federal-appeals habeas-corpus judicial-review state-prisoner | Whether the Courts of Appeal may dismiss an appeal by a state prisoner on habeas review when a circuit judge votes to grant a certificate of appealabi… |
| 25-5548 | Louie M. Schexnayder, Jr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2025-09-04 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | AEDPA due-process federal-review habeas-corpus jurisdictional-defect state-prisoner | Whether the Federal Courts have misapplied habeas restrictions introduced by the AEDPA to State prisoners under FRCP rule 60(b)(4) Motion Based on Fun… |
| 25A79 | Kevin J. Koelemij v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-07-21 | Presumed Complete | certificate-of-appealability eleventh-circuit federal-courts habeas-corpus procedural-due-process state-prisoner | Question not identified. | |
| 25-5103 | In Re Matthew Phillips | 2025-07-15 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights equal-protection extraordinary-writ habeas-corpus procedural-due-process state-prisoner | I. Whether or not the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has denied Matthew Phillips procedural due process by denying leave for Phillips to file a sec… | |
| 25-5101 | In Re Matthew Phillips | 2025-07-15 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights equal-protection habeas-corpus procedural-due-process sentence-execution state-prisoner | I. Whether or not the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has denied Matthew Phillips procedural due process by denying leave for Phillips to file a s… | |
| 24-6561 | Tonia Scott v. Pennsylvania | Third Circuit | 2025-02-13 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | constitutional-review exceptional-circumstances exhaustion-of-remedies habeas-corpus procedural-default state-prisoner | Whether a state court prisoner can seek habeas corpus relief under exceptional circumstances when procedural defaults exist and state remedies have be… |
| 24A618 | Ishmael Anthony Peters v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-12-20 | Presumed Complete | aedpa-standard constitutional-claim federal-review habeas-corpus section-2254 state-prisoner | Whether a federal habeas court correctly applied the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act's (AEDPA) standard for granting relief on a state p… | |
| 24-5756 | Jonathan Leigh Sosnowicz v. Kris Mayes, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-10-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cause-and-prejudice factual-development habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default state-prisoner | Did the Ninth Circuit correctly apply this Court's decision in Ramirez? |
| 24-19 | James LeBlanc v. Brian McNeal | Fifth Circuit | 2024-07-09 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 42-usc-1983 civil-rights confinement damages due-process habeas-corpus preiser-v-rodriguez release-date state-prisoner wilkinson-v-dotson | Whether a state prisoner alleging unlawful confinement beyond his proper release date may sue for damages under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 |
| 23-7612 | Wade Lay v. Christie Quick, Warden | Tenth Circuit | 2024-06-03 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process execution-delay federal-review federalism habeas-corpus standing state-prisoner | Whether the federal courts erred in denying petitioner's request for a stay of execution despite the serious constitutional violations and irreparable… |
| 23A705 | Sherman Lee Ridley v. Brian Chambers, Warden | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-01-31 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-claims eleventh-circuit federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default state-prisoner | Whether the Eleventh Circuit properly applied federal habeas corpus standards in reviewing a state prisoner's constitutional claims | |
| 23-6258 | Sherman L. Fields v. Donald J. Trump, former President of the United States, et al. | District of Columbia | 2023-12-14 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights detention due-process federal-court habeas-corpus judicial-review liberty liberty-restraint remedy standing state-prisoner | Whether the Petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when he was illegally detained and denied a remedy for such violation |
| 23-5032 | L. Brian Whitfield v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-07-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aedpa civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction pro-se standing state-prisoner | Whether a district court abused its discretion by failing to use its own factual finding as proof that a claim was actionable |
| 22-7027 | Lester Barnett v. North Carolina | North Carolina | 2023-03-16 | Denied | IFP | 10th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment pre-trial-detention sentencing state-prisoner | Was it unconstitutional for them to convict petitioner for a safecracking that happened while petitioner was confined at Mecklenburg County Jail on th… |
| 22-6896 | Kim Lynn Mason v. Jim Farris, Warden | Oklahoma | 2023-03-01 | Denied | IFP | due-process habeas-corpus judicial-relief jurisdiction state-prisoner void-judgment | Whether due process demands that corrective judicial process in the nature of state writ of habeas corpus be available to expunge a void judgment for … |
| 22-6408 | Samuel Lawrence Wood v. Mike Brown, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2022-12-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | concurrent-sentences consecutive-sentences criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-review federal-sentencing habeas-corpus sentencing state-prisoner state-sentencing statutory-authority | Whether a state court can impose a sentence to commence at the completion of a federal sentence in the absence of statutory authority |
| 22-6229 | In Re Steven B. Turner | 2022-12-06 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-violation due-process federal-claim federal-jurisdiction federal-statute habeas-corpus remedy remedy-unavailable state-prisoner supreme-court-holding | Whether application of 28 U.S.C. 2244(b)(1) and (2) violates U.S. Const. Art. I, Sec. 9, cl. 2 | |
| 21-8090 | Angelo C. Pearson, II v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-06-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-claim constitutional-claims equitable-remedies equitable-tolling federal-habeas habeas-corpus merits-review plain-error procedural-default state-prisoner | Whether 'extraordinary circumstances' are present when a state prisoner's record shows a constitutional error that meets the federal 'plain error' sta… |
| 21-7229 | Steven A. Taliani v. Illinois | Illinois | 2022-02-28 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-hearing involuntary-intoxication prescription-medication state-prisoner statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review | Does the Illinois Supreme Court's opinion and analysis constitute an unreasonable determination of the facts in light of the Illinois Supreme Court's … |
| 21-6959 | Kenneth J. Cox v. Ed Caley, Warden, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2022-01-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | AEDPA constitutional-rights federal-law jurisdiction procedural-default representation-right SAOC-elements sentence-enhancement sentence-enhancers state-court-judgment state-prisoner state-prisoners-claim | Whether the jurisdiction of this court is invoked under 28-U.S.C.-1257(a) |
| 21-6880 | In Re Allen Fitzgerald Calton | 2022-01-18 | Dismissed | IFP | civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus standing state-prisoner successive-petition successive-petitions unreasonable-application | Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals was original habeas corpus jurisdiction over a second or successive habeas petition filed by a state prisoner who wa… | |
| 21-511 | Tim Shoop, Warden v. Raymond A. Twyford, III | Sixth Circuit | 2021-10-06 | Judgment Issued | Amici (7)Relisted (3) | all-writs-act circuit-split evidentiary-development federal-court habeas-corpus state-prisoner state-prisoners statutory-interpretation transportation writ-of-transportation | Whether federal courts may use the All Writs Act to evade the limitations on state prisoner transportation in 28 U.S.C. §2241(c) |
| 20-7635 | Lisa Biron v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-04-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conviction-review criminal-procedure federal-criminal-statute federal-habeas fundamental-defect gonzalez-v-crosby intent-element procedural-default rule-60(b) rule-60b section-2255 state-prisoner | When the trial court's misunderstanding or the mental intent element of a federal criminal statute becomes apparent in a conclusory footnote in its de… |
| 20-5731 | In Re Brent L. Alford | 2020-09-17 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 2244(d)(1)(B) 2244(d)(2) aedpa article-i-section-9 constitutional-impediment great-writ habeas-corpus state-prisoner statutory-tolling | Does a Federal Court's denial of a State prisoner's right to statutory tolling under 2244(d)(2) or 2244(d)(1)(B) effectively suspend the Great Writ in… | |
| 20-5460 | Keith L. Calvin v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-08-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aedpa antiterrorism-act civil-rights due-process federal-petition habeas-corpus post-conviction state-prisoner statute-of-limitations time-limitation | Whether the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) requires a state prisoner seeking federal habeas corpus relief to file his federal p… |
| 19-8346 | Naeem Jones v. Mark Capozza, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. | Third Circuit | 2020-04-23 | Denied | IFP | actual-innocence constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance state-prisoner strickland-standard | Does a freestanding claim of actual innocence stand a basis of relief for a state prisoner in the context of a federal habeas proceeding? |
| 19-8117 | Vincent D. White, Jr. v. Donnie Morgan, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2020-03-27 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 28-usc-2254 constitutional-issue due-process exhaustion-doctrine federal-constitutional-issue federal-habeas procedural-default state-courts state-prisoner statutory-interpretation | Whether federal courts should exclusively apply 28 U.S.C. § 2254(b) when evaluating State assertions that a State prisoner has failed to properly rais… |
| 19-936 | Terry Trentacosta v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2020-01-27 | Denied | 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure evidentiary-hearing federal-habeas habeas-corpus slack-v-mcdaniel state-prisoner | Should a state prisoner take a separate, direct appeal of the denial of an evidentiary hearing in a federal habeas case when no 'certificate of appeal… | |
| 19-5894 | Damon Bentley v. Connie Horton, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-09-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure clerical-error constitutional-claims due-process federal-review fourteenth-amendment fraud habeas-corpus state-prisoner statute-of-limitations | Whether the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause is violated when a State prisoner is not given a complete and fair hearing in the district court w… |
| 18-8155 | Benjamin E. Smith v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-02-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence constitutional-right constitutional-rights courts-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-habeas federal-habeas-corpus federal-prisoner habeas-corpus legal-scholars standing state-prisoner | Does a state and/or federal prisoner have a constitutional right to raise a freestanding claim of actual innocence, in a federal habeas corpus proceed… |
| 18-8103 | Derrek Heard v. Walter Berry, Warden | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-02-22 | Denied | IFP | 11th-circuit appellate-review civil-rights court-discretion due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-precedent legal-procedure precedent state-courts state-prisoner | Are the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia and the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit required to … |
| 18-7963 | Fredmun Wayne Reynolds v. Noah Nagy, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-02-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus prisoner-rights procedural-rules rules-of-civil-procedure state-prisoner statute statute-interpretation timeliness | Does a district court's dismissal of a state prisoner's habeas petition under Habeas Rule 4 for lack of timeliness violate statute, the Rules of Civil… |
| 18-7827 | Roger L. Kaufman v. Paul S. Kemper, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2019-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-interpretation due-process ex-post-facto federal-guidelines parole parole-eligibility sentencing sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers state-prisoner | Whether a state prisoner is entitled to a parole hearing under the Due Process Clause and Separation of Powers Doctrine when a court disposes of feder… |
| 18-940 | Jamal Martinez Hancock v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2019-01-18 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | actual-innocence antiterrorism-act antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act constitutional-error habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice new-evidence schlup-v-delo state-prisoner triggering-events | Whether evidence that was available but not presented at trial constitutes 'new' evidence for purposes of the 'actual-innocence' gateway that permits … |
| 18-5666 | Arthur Dennison v. Mark Hooks, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2018-08-20 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-habeas-corpus federal-jurisdiction federal-review habeas-corpus sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-court-of-appeals state-prisoner statutory-interpretation | Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals err in denying a certificate of appealability to state prisoner Arthur Dennison to challenge the denial of his … |