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25-6660 Demetrius Franklin v. Raymond Madden, Warden Ninth Circuit 2026-01-23 Pending Response WaivedIFP brady-violation certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ninth-circuit prosecutorial-misconduct summary-denial Petitioner Demetrius Franklin was convicted of first degree murder based on the testimony of a single identifying witness, Shanti Day. The prosecution…
24-7314 Missouri, ex rel. Jeffrey Weinhaus v. Richard Adams, Warden Missouri 2025-05-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP cause-and-prejudice constitutional-claim due-process habeas-corpus state-law summary-denial Where State law entitles a prisoner to habeas corpus review of a Constitutional claim upon a showing of cause and prejudice, does the summary denial o…
23A1011 Hanh Ho Tran v. Parkway Condominiums I Homeowners Association, Inc. Colorado 2024-05-14 Presumed Complete due-process judicial-review procedural-rights state-supreme-court summary-denial writ-of-certiorari Whether a state supreme court's summary denial of a petition for writ of certiorari without substantive explanation constitutes a due process violatio…
23A812 Arthur Lopez v. Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, et al. California 2024-03-04 Presumed Complete appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-defendant due-process post-conviction summary-denial Whether a state appellate court's summary denial of a post-conviction relief application without a reasoned opinion violates a criminal defendant's du…
23-5479 Lee Edward Peyton v. Theresa Cisneros, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-08-30 Denied IFP aedpa civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process faretta-inquiry habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-review pro-se-petition standing summary-denial Whether the complete failure to conduct a Faretta-compliant inquiry with the accused in the face of a clear and unequivocal request to proceed pro se …
20-6193 Martin L. Harrell v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure diligence-standard due-process habeas-corpus material-fact mcquiggin mcquiggin-standard new-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct summary-denial Whether Evidence Not Presented as the Result of Prosecutorial Misconduct Should Be Considered New Evidence under McQuiggin?
19-6106 Alexander William Johnson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-10-01 Denied IFP buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process fifth-circuit habeas habeas-corpus judicial-review summary-denial summary-order Whether a 1'4-page order that summarily denies a certificate of appealability satisfies the requirement of Buck v. Davis
18-9190 Parnell Smith v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Florida 2019-05-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-counsel appellate-procedure court-appointed-counsel direct-appeal due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel summary-denial unlawful-imprisonment Whether review should be granted because state court's summary denial of petition for writ of habeas corpus, seeking belated direct appeal or reinstat…
18-1325 Dieter Charles Vogt v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-19 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability court-of-appeals district-court-order due-process habeas-corpus procedural-grounds reasonable-jurist right-to-counsel standard-of-review summary-denial Should the order of the court of appeals denying a certificate of appealability be reversed and remanded, because it is manifestly incorrect to sugges…
18-8775 Samuel William Maines v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-04-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel remand summary-denial Should the Fifth Circuit's unreasoned summary denial of a Certificate of Appealability be remanded for further consideration?
18-8089 Lattrell Anthony Morris v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-due-process court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts gvr habeas-corpus procedural-review rule-60b standing summary-denial summary-disposition Whether the Certificate of Appealability standard can be consistently applied when petitioners are denied relief under Rule 60(b)
18-7177 Robert Joe Gonzales v. Kelly Santoro, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244 chavis federal-habeas habeas-corpus ninth-circuit procedural-bar procedural-bars statute-of-limitations summary-denial timeliness Whether the Ninth Circuit abdicated its responsibility under Chavis when it treated a pincite in a summary denial to a page of a state opinion that ad…
18-633 Gary Jefferson Byrd v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-11-15 Denied Response Waived appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court district-court-summary-denial due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-discretion pro-se pro-se-litigant standing summary-denial Should a Certificate of Appealability (COA) be denied to a pro se litigant thus denying an appeal when the issue has been extensively researched and c…
18-6143 Oscar Rodriguez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-procedure mental-retardation ninth-circuit summary-denial Whether the Ninth Circuit's summary denial of a certificate of appealability complies with this Court's precedents requiring that a COA be granted if …
18-130 Donald G. Karr, Jr. v. Indiana Indiana 2018-07-31 Denied Response Waived direct-appeal due-process habeas-corpus indiana-supreme-court ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-conflict summary-denial trevino-v-thaler Whether the Indiana Supreme Court correctly concluded that Indiana's procedures governing claims of ineffective assistance of trial counsel raised on …