threshold-inquiry
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-6023 | Worldly Dieago Holstick v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-11-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-claims ineffective-assistance miller-el-precedent plea-voluntariness sentencing-guidelines threshold-inquiry | Whether the lower courts violated Miller-El precedent by collapsing threshold inquiry into merits determination and denying review of substantial cons… |
| 20-7553 | Len Davis v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-03-25 | Denied | IFP | capital-case certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-review evidentiary-hearing federal-appellate-review habeas-corpus supervisory-authority threshold-inquiry | Whether this Court should grant certiorari and exercise its supervisory authority to bring uniformity to the circuit courts' COA practice so as to avo… |
| 20-7457 | Mark Andrew Morris v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-03-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-circuit appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus judicial-standard merits-review standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent threshold-inquiry | Did the United States Court of Appeals, 6th Circuit, use an improper and unduly burdensome Certificate of Appealability (COA) standard which conflicts… |
| 20-6209 | Louis Sanders v. Charles Williams, Jr., Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2020-11-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus miller-el-standard slack-v-mcdaniel standard-of-review threshold-inquiry | Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in denying a certificate of appealability, in conflict with this Court's decisions in Miller-El and Slack v. McDaniel |
| 19-8109 | Antonio Bogan v. Deanna Brookhart, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2020-03-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process fair-hearing habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-ruling threshold-inquiry | Whether a certificate of appealability (COA) can be denied without an overview of the habeas claims and issues in the request and a general assessment… |
| 18-7841 | Adekunle Olufemi Adetiloye v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability district-court-files due-process habeas-corpus legal-standard standard-of-review substantial-showing-standard threshold-inquiry | Whether a court of appeals can deny a certificate of appealablity without conducting the prerequisite 28 U.S.C 2253(c)(2) threshold inquiry, two-compo… |
| 18-6381 | William B. Crockett, III v. Richard Brown, Superintendent, Wabash Valley Correctional Facility | Seventh Circuit | 2018-10-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review standard-of-review threshold-inquiry | Whether a court of appeals' unreasoned, one-page order summarily denying a certificate of appealability conflicts with relevant decisions of this Cour… |