| 24-5142 |
Thomas E. Creech v. Tim Richardson, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split competency-to-be-executed death-penalty federal-courts federal-procedure habeas-corpus late-evolving-facts second-or-successive-petition statutory-interpretation successive-petitions |
Is a federal habeas petition based on late-evolving facts second or successive when it is not based on a claim that the inmate is incompetent to be ex… |
| 23-7647 |
Michael Fred Houston v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
collateral-review constitutional-right-to-counsel due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel initial-review-proceeding post-conviction-relief post-conviction-review procedural-default right-to-counsel successive-petitions |
Is a defendant constitutionally entitled to the appointment of counsel in initial-review collateral proceedings? |
| 23-7195 |
In Re Dechaun Toliver |
|
2024-04-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-custody constitutional-rights custody district-court district-court-jurisdiction due-process habeas-corpus successive-petition successive-petitions writ-of-habeas-corpus |
Is it mandatory for a District Court to entertain a Writ of Habeas Corpus when a petitioner is claiming to be in custody in violation of the Constitut… |
| 23-6206 |
Ken Ejimofor Ezeah v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 custody habeas-corpus immigration-law judicial-review noncitizen-rights removal-order savings-clause statutory-interpretation successive-petitions |
Does the savings clause provided in Section 2255(e) allow the court to hear a prisoner's custody petition pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241 following the d… |
| 23-5637 |
Daniel Lee Reed v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa aedpa-standard certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge constitutional-rights fifth-circuit-review habeas-corpus rule-60(b) rule-60b successive-petition successive-petitions |
Did the Fifth Circuit err in denying a COA for failure to properly consider the framework in which successive petitions are mandated to be reviewed |
| 22-7655 |
Benjamin Edward Bradley v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-05-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 castro-v-united-states certiorari-review circuit-court-review civil-procedure federal-procedure habeas-corpus motion-classification statutory-interpretation successive-petitions |
Did the Court below err in determining that the petitioner's second-in-time, §2255 motion was 'second [or] successive?' |
| 22-5548 |
In Re David Moore |
|
2022-09-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa aedpa-limitations criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge state-court-jurisdiction successive-petition successive-petitions unconstitutional-conviction |
Did Congress intend to preclude as successive under the AEDPA a state prisoner habeas claim that he is held unconstitutionally upon conviction and sen… |
| 21-7543 |
Gerardo Castillo-Chavez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 constitutional-ruling district-court habeas-corpus jurisdiction preponderance-of-evidence section-2255 standard-of-proof successive-motion successive-petitions |
Whether a district court is authorized to dismiss a successive § 2255 motion for lack of jurisdiction after a court of appeals has authorized the fili… |
| 21-7315 |
Michael Lynn Cash v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights court-decision due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-reasoning pro-se procedural-fairness standing successive-petitions |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion as successive without considering the petitioner's claims on t… |
| 21-6914 |
Michael Patrick Kennedy v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights dismissal-standard due-process fifth-circuit-interpretation judicial-proceedings pro-se-representation standing successive-petitions supervisory-power |
Whether a dismissal without prejudice is in fact a dismissal with prejudice |
| 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… |
| 21-5365 |
Mark Lee Wilkinson v. Siobhan Burtlow, Warden, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
conviction conviction-challenge habeas-corpus new-judgment petition-filing sentence statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation successive-petitions time-limitation |
whether-new-judgment-restarts-one-year-time-limitation |
| 21-5139 |
In Re Donald M. Boswell |
|
2021-07-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment successive-petitions |
Was the denial of Petitioner's request for a Certificate of Appealibility (COA) to file a second or successive federal habeas corpus for new claims fo… |
| 20-8155 |
Frederick Wayne Smith v. California |
California |
2021-05-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence autonomy civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prima-facie sixth-amendment successive-petitions |
Should the May 2, 1995 Order to Show Cause/Prima Facie case; The NOV 05 2018 Superior Court writ of habeas corpus/Prima facie showing of violation of … |
| 20-865 |
In Re Todd Britton-Harr |
|
2020-12-30 |
Denied |
|
28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 circuit-split false-statement federal-prisoners habeas-corpus section-2244 section-2255 successive-petitions supervised-release |
Whether 28 U.S.C. section 2244(b)(1) applies to federal prisoners seeking relief under 28 U.S.C. section 2255 |
| 20-6186 |
Piyarath S. Kayarath v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-11-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process habeas-corpus jurisdictional-review rule-60b section-2253 section-2255 successive-petitions |
Whether Court of Appeals fulsome review of potential meritorious claims in COA application overstep the bounds of 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(1) |
| 20-5762 |
Will Robertson Brown v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-review due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-precedent petition-standard retroactivity section-2255 successive-petitions unconstitutional-law |
Whether a petitioner must show it is 'more likely than not' that a district court's prior ruling relied on a provision of law later deemed unconstitut… |
| 20-5624 |
Juan Francisco Vega v. Chad Poppell, Secretary, Florida Department of Children and Families |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-09-09 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
§2254-petition certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-discretion extraordinary-circumstances false-imprisonment habeas-corpus sexually-violent-predator successive-petitions |
whether-jurists-could-debate-abuse-of-discretion |
| 20-5451 |
Casey Rafael Tyler v. North Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-08-21 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
actual-innocence church-state constitutional-claims due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus legal-prosecution second-petition successive-petitions unlawful-prosecution |
When Petitioning for Federal Habeas Relief, is the Actual Innocence Requirement Satisfied Where Conceding Guilt Nevertheless Could Not Have Legally Au… |
| 19-8257 |
Eric C. Miller v. Randy Gibbs, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-04-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-requirements due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus procedural-default successive-petitions supreme-court-precedent time-barred-petition |
Can the lower courts continue to bypass U.S. Supreme Court law in favor of their self-created rule calling time-barred initial habeas petitions 'adjud… |
| 19-8179 |
In Re Harold Wayne Nichols |
|
2020-04-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2244 capital-defendant court-of-appeals habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-limits merits-adjudication retroactive-law statutory-interpretation successive-petitions |
When a capital defendant requests from a court of appeals authorization to file in a district court a second or successive habeas petition presenting … |
| 19-7524 |
In Re Lexter K. Kossie |
|
2020-01-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-U.S.C.-§-2244 28-usc-2244 constitutional-performance due-process habeas-corpus martinez-v-ryan Martinez-v.-Ryan mitigation-investigation procedural-default successive-petitions supreme-court-review trevino-v-thaler Trevino-v.-Thaler trial-counsel |
Whether the Court's 'equitable' ruling permits Texas prisoners to avoid the successive requirements found at 28 U.S.C. § 2244(a) and (b) regarding pri… |
| 19-934 |
In Re Todd Britton-Harr |
|
2020-01-27 |
Denied |
|
28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 circuit-split federal-prisoners habeas-corpus procedural-review second-successive-motion statutory-interpretation successive-petitions supervised-release |
Whether 28 U.S.C. section 2244(b)(1) applies to federal prisoners seeking relief under 28 U.S.C. section 2255 |
| 19-932 |
In Re Julius Jerome Murphy |
|
2020-01-24 |
Denied |
|
2244(b) 28-U.S.C.-§-2244(b) circuit-court-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jurisdiction prima-facie-showing statutory-interpretation successive-petition successive-petitions |
Does a circuit court exceed its jurisdiction by requiring a petitioner to satisfy the burden of actually establishing that his application to file a s… |
| 19-7353 |
Enamiden Celestine Okon v. Nate Knutson, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-01-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
brecht-standard constitutional-error due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review magwood-v-patterson procedural-default sanders-v-united-states standing successive-petition successive-petitions |
Whether Petitioner filed 'a second or successive' application by re-raising a claim in his second habeas petition that was not fully addressed and/or … |
| 19-7177 |
Eric C. Miller v. Randy Gibbs, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa civil-procedure district-court federal-courts federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus procedural-dismissal successive-petition successive-petitions time-bar |
Can District Courts continue to dismiss (numerically) second habeas petitions as 'successive' and hold the petitioner to the stricter AEDPA requiremen… |
| 19-836 |
Paul Ross Evans v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review post-conviction-relief prisoner-petition section-2255 statutory-interpretation successive-application successive-petitions |
Whether a subsequent amendment to a prisoner's first 28 U.S.C. 2255 proceeding may be considered a second or successive application under 28 U.S.C. 22… |
| 19-6934 |
Dexter Johnson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
buck-doctrine buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability fifth-circuit gonzalez-precedent habeas-corpus habeas-relief ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel rule-60(b)(6) successive-petition successive-petitions |
Whether the Fifth Circuit has misinterpreted Buck by requiring Mr. Johnson to plead a meritorious claim for habeas relief in his Rule 60(b)(6) motion? |
| 19-6355 |
Eric Mack v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP |
crime-of-violence due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus liberty-interest precedential-effect prior-panel-precedent pro-se-petition section-2255 successive-petitions |
Whether a defendant's right to Due Process in his initial § 2255 proceeding is violated by the Eleventh Circuit's rule assigning precedential effect t… |
| 19-5518 |
Muamar A. Sayyed v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
§2254 §2254-petition civil-procedure district-court district-court-authority due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion motion-correction procedural-error successive-petitions void-judgment |
Does the district court have the authority to dismiss §2254 habeas corpus petition as successive when it was clearly not successive? |
| 19-5523 |
Manuel Maldonado Aguilar v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion motion-reconsideration procedural-default procedural-ruling section-2255 standard-of-review successive-petitions |
Was petitioner's initial § 2255 Motion denied on the merit, for not demostrating or proving deficient performance or prejudice? |
| 19-5451 |
Michael Lawrence Robinson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-06 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP |
binding-precedent circuit-split constitutional-question court-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2255 jurisdiction statutory-interpretation successive-petitions |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit exceeded its statutory mandate under 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(3)(C) when it issued published rulings on the merits of open leg… |
| 19-5315 |
Raymond Aguilar v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-07-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-U.S.C-§-2244 28-U.S.C-§-2255 28-usc-2244 28-usc-2255 court-of-appeals district-court habeas-corpus johnson-rule residual-clause section-2244 section-2255 successive-motion successive-petitions void-for-vagueness |
When a court of appeals grants authorization to file a successive motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255(h)(2), does 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(4) permit a district c… |
| 19-5267 |
Michael St. Hubert v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-23 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6)IFP |
18-usc-924c crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit first-step-act habeas-corpus pending-on-direct-review preclusion pro-se section-2255 successive-2255-motion successive-motion successive-petitions |
Is a criminal defendant's right to Due Process violated by the Eleventh Circuit's rule affording binding force and preclusive effect to a prior panel'… |
| 19-5170 |
Phillip J. Rosenblum v. Martin Biter, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default reopening-deadline state-court-exhaustion successive-petitions |
Whether a petitioner with an 'actual innocence' claim can be barred from review and treated as if successive petitions that have not been adjudicated … |
| 18-9690 |
Curt M. Lockett v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-06-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-writ actual-innocence carrier-standard constitutional-claims due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-review habeas-corpus innocence-claim post-conviction-review procedural-error successive-petitions |
Should 4 habeas petitioners' claims of actual innocence, supported by the facts of the record, be subject to doctrines of abuse or successive use of t… |
| 18-8989 |
Dwayne Stoutamire v. Donald Morgan, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-04-25 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2244 appeals civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus mandate motion-to-vacate record standing successive-petitions |
Whether my motion to vacate the mandate & record of successive petition is considered a second successive application that the Court of Appeals should… |
| 18-1320 |
Renee Baker, Warden v. Alquandre H. Turner |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-18 |
Denied |
|
28-usc-2244 amended-judgment civil-rights conviction conviction-challenge due-process federal-habeas habeas habeas-corpus new-judgment sentence sentencing successive-petition successive-petitions time-served-credit |
Whether an amended judgment of conviction containing only nominal changes that do not disturb the original conviction and sentence should be considere… |
| 18-8356 |
In Re Steven Eason |
|
2019-03-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-limitations procedural-bars prosecutorial-misconduct state-law successive-habeas successive-petitions |
Whether the petitioner's fundamental constitutional right to due process was violated when the state prosecuted him on counts of his indictment becaus… |
| 18-7869 |
Samuel Deorio v. Vic Flournoy, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 acca-predicate-offenses constitutional-law court-of-appeals habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2241-2255 new-rule-of-constitutional-law retroactivity savings-clause second-or-successive-petition sentencing-enhancement successive-petitions unconstitutional-sentence |
Whether 28 U.S.C. §2255(e) may serve as a failsafe mechanism |
| 18-7596 |
In Re Robert F. Russo |
|
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-court civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus habeas-petition judicial-overreach legislative-action legislative-overreach procedural-due-process standing statutory-interpretation successive-petition successive-petitions |
Has the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals arrogated its own form of legislative action concerning a Petitioner's request for 'Leave'' to commence a suc… |
| 18-7229 |
Telisa De'Ann Blackman v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa brady-claim brady-giglio-napue brady-rule burden-of-proof exculpatory-evidence federal-habeas federal-writ giglio-claim giglio-rule napue-claim napue-rule prosecutorial-misconduct successive-petitions |
Should a prisoner be substantively disadvantaged by having to meet a higher burden of proof on her Brady/Giglio/Napue claims because the prosecution h… |
| 18-6766 |
David Gulbrandson v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment capital-punishment-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment habeas-corpus procedural-default procedural-ruling second-in-time-petition statutory-aggravating-factors statutory-aggravator successive-petitions |
Whether reasonable jurists would debate the correctness of the district court's procedural ruling that Gulbrandson's second-in-time § 2254 petition wa… |
| 18-6470 |
In Re Gary Malone |
|
2018-10-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2244(b) actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process federal-court-procedure habeas-corpus mcquiggin-v-perkins miscarriage-of-justice panetti-v-quarterman standing successive-petition successive-petitions |
Whether a single district court and circuit court judge can entertain a second successive 2254(b) petition when the second application is a continuati… |
| 18-6394 |
Jimmy Steele v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection extraordinary-circumstances gatekeeping-provision habeas-corpus intervening-change-in-law retroactivity second-motion successive-petitions |
Whether the lower court erred in denying Steele's second-in-time § 2255 motion, in light of his argument that the claim he has asserted for challengin… |
| 18-6145 |
Maurice Nichols v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus standard-of-review standing successive-petitions |
Did the Appellate Court and District Court close their discretion in construing the petitioner's Rule 60(b) Motion as a Second and Successive Habeas P… |
| 18-6087 |
Samuel Raphael Johnson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
§2255-motion 28-usc-2255 criminal-procedure federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review post-conviction-relief procedural-default successive-petitions |
Does asking the district court to reopen the habeas proceeding to consider all issues presented constitute a second or successive §2255 motion? |
| 18-5731 |
Heather Jo Cox v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-justice-reform-act criminal-procedure due-process equitable-tolling johnson-ruling johnson-v-united-states second-successive-filing successive-filing successive-petitions vagueness vagueness-doctrine vagueness-standard |
Did the lower court err in denying relief where this court has recognized robbery/burglary as vague under Johnson? |
| 18-5472 |
In Re Alan James Hedrick |
|
2018-08-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 actual-innocence constitutional-claims habeas-corpus mcquiggin-v-perkins miranda-rights prosecutorial-misconduct successive-petition successive-petitions time-bar time-barred |
Whether McQuiggin v. Perkins permits a state court prisoner to rely on 'actual innocence' as a gateway to pursue constitutional claims that were previ… |