writ-application
7 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-5563 | Joseph Lee Smith v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2025-09-05 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-review manslaughter post-trial-motions sentencing specific-intent writ-application | Whether the Louisiana Supreme Court erred in denying petitioner's writ application on direct appeal regarding specific intent for manslaughter, whethe… |
| 25A257 | Jennifer Bridges, et al. v. The Methodist Hospital, dba The Methodist Hospital System, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-09-03 | Presumed Complete | certiorari filing-deadline procedural-relief supreme-court-rules time-extension writ-application | Whether the lower court's extension of time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari was procedurally appropriate and consistent with Supreme Court… | |
| 24-7294 | Rustin Randall Middleton v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2025-05-28 | Denied | IFP | criminal-appeal evidence-challenge legal-sufficiency louisiana-supreme-court sentence-review writ-application | Whether the Louisiana Supreme Court erred in denying petitioner's writ application challenging the sufficiency of evidence and excessiveness of senten… |
| 24-5102 | Alexi Hinojosa Matos v. Texas | Texas | 2024-07-18 | Denied | IFP | appointment-of-counsel criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus miscarriage-of-justice prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-counsel writ-application | Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel |
| 23-6265 | Timothy Dean Stone v. Texas | Texas | 2023-12-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review schlup-standard state-procedural-ground state-procedural-grounds texas-criminal-procedure texas-law writ-application | Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals' holding that Texas Code of Criminal Procedure Article 11.07 section 4(a)(2) precluded consideration of th… |
| 22-7327 | John Edward Holmes v. Texas | Texas | 2023-04-20 | Denied | IFP | court-of-criminal-appeals due-process fair-consideration habeas-corpus statutory-provisions texas texas-law writ-application | Did the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas deprive petitioner of his due process right to a fair consideration of his initial application for a writ o… |
| 18-8341 | Louie M. Schexnayder, Jr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2019-03-08 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9)IFP | aedpa-deference judicial-federalism judicial-proceedings judicial-review pecuniary-interest prisoner-rights pro-se-petition pro-se-prisoners state-court-decision statutory-interpretation supervisory-power writ-application writ-applications | Could jurists of reason debate whether to apply AEDPA deference to a state court decision arising out of a secret, thirteen-year-long policy to deny a… |