summary-denial
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 … |