unreasonable-determination

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6767 Mario A. Manborde v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2026-02-10 Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law due-process federal-law judicial-review manifest-injustice unreasonable-determination I. Is There a Constitutional Cure For Manifest Injustice? II. Was There An Unreasonable Application of Clearly Established Federal Laws Upon An Unrea…
23-7736 Clarence Mack v. Margaret Bradshaw, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-06-17 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254d2 brady-napue-claims brady-violation capital-punishment capital-trial habeas-corpus informant-testimony informant-witness napue-violation prosecutor-deal prosecutorial-misconduct unreasonable-determination When the existence of at least an informal, tacit, or unspoken deal between the prosecutor and his star informant-witness in a capital trial is self-e…
23-7666 Brandon Washington v. Steven T. Marshall, Attorney General of Alabama, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-07 Denied IFP evidentiary-hearing factual-determination factual-record federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus state-court state-court-proceedings unreasonable-determination Whether a state prisoner must dispel 'any potential justification' for a state court's factual finding, even when the prisoner was unjustifiably denie…
22-6362 Carlos Santana R. Garcia v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-12-21 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel unreasonable-determination Did the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas and the U.S. District Court Northern District of Texas San Angelo Division err in deciding the merits of Pe…
22-5856 Tracy J. McGill v. Oklahoma Department of Corrections Oklahoma 2022-10-18 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-indian-law federal-law habeas-corpus jurisdiction state-court subject-matter-jurisdiction unreasonable-determination Whether Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals' denial of petitioner's jurisdictional claim resulted in an unreasonable determination of the facts
21-6536 In Re Michael Robert Everett 2021-12-07 Denied IFP 5th-amendment civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process evidence federal-habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief state-court-record suppression-hearing unreasonable-determination Whether counsel was ineffective for failing to present to the court during suppression hearing evidence that the petitioner seeks to raise when invoki…
20-5155 Charles E. Coughlin v. United States District of Columbia 2020-07-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 constitutional-right constitutional-rights district-court-discretion evidentiary-hearing expert-witness ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-expert-witnesses strategic-decision unreasonable-determination Whether the court of appeals erred in denying petitioner's claim of ineffective assistance of counsel
19-6999 Charles Alan Dyer v. Jim Farris, Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-12-18 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process exhaustion-doctrine exhaustion-of-state-remedies federal-review habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review-2254-d-2-e-1 ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel presumption-of-correctness prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review state-court-fact-finding state-court-factual-findings state-court-findings unreasonable-determination Whether a federal court is required to review the state court's finding of facts to determine if it is 'unreasonable' or can the court simply presume …
18-7703 Nathan Smith III v. Sherry Pennywell, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-01 Denied IFP 2254(d)(2) cumulative-error de-novo-review deference due-process fact-finding fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment standard-of-review unreasonable-determination Did the CCA so stretch the facts in this case so unreasonably that no deference could be possible to its interpretation of what occurred in the taco r…
18-6786 Curtis J. Hill v. Joe A. Lizarraga, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied IFP cause-of-death confrontation-clause due-process evidence expert-reports expert-testimony habeas-corpus medical-evidence pro-se pro-se-filing unreasonable-determination unreasonable-factual-findings Whether the California Court of Appeal unreasonably determined the facts critical to a Confrontation Clause analysis of the introduction of a non-test…