The Oyez Project: Criminal Procedure Issues - Habeas Corpus Decisions

Abdur'Rahman v. Bell - Opinion Announcement

Tue, 10 Dec 2002 12:00:00 -0500

Does a Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b) motion, filed in a habeas corpus proceeding to inform the federal courts of a state court's interpretation of state procedural laws, constitute a "successive" habeas corpus petition?

Artuz v. Bennett - Opinion Announcement

Tue, 07 Nov 2000 12:00:00 -0500

Is an application for state postconviction relief containing procedurally barred claims properly filed within the meaning of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996?

Bell v. Cone - Opinion Announcement

Tue, 28 May 2002 12:00:00 -0500

Does defense counsel render ineffective assistance during the sentencing phase of a murder trial by failing to present mitigating evidence and waiving final argument?

Brecht v. Abrahamson - Opinion Announcement

Wed, 21 Apr 1993 12:00:00 -0500

Is the "beyond a reasonable doubt" standard from Chapman v. California the appropriate standard for setting aside a conviction on the basis of constitutional error?

Carey v. Saffold - Opinion Announcement

Mon, 17 Jun 2002 12:00:00 -0500

Does the word "pending," in the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, cover the time between a lower state court's decision and the filing of a notice of appeal to a higher state court? If so, does it apply similarly to California's unique state collateral review system?

Caspari, Superintendent, Missouri Eastern Correctional Center v. Bohlen - Opinion Announcement

Wed, 23 Feb 1994 12:00:00 -0500

No details yet.

Castro v. United States - Opinion Announcement

Mon, 15 Dec 2003 12:00:00 -0500

When a district judge re-classifies a post-conviction motion by a defendant, turning it into a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, does that preclude future petitions for a writ of habeas corpus under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996?

Clay v. United States - Opinion Announcement

Tue, 04 Mar 2003 12:00:00 -0500

Does a judgment become "final" for postconviction relief when the appellate court issues its mandate affirming the conviction where a defendant in a federal prosecution takes an unsuccessful direct appeal from a judgment of conviction but does not next petition for a writ of certiorari from the U.S. Supreme Court?

Coleman v. Thompson - Opinion Announcement

Mon, 24 Jun 1991 12:00:00 -0500

No details yet.

Day v. McDonough - Opinion Announcement

Wed, 26 Apr 2006 12:00:00 -0500

May a court dismiss a federal habeas petition as untimely, even after the state concedes the timeliness of the petition and submits other arguments?

Dodd v. United States - Opinion Announcement

Mon, 20 Jun 2005 12:00:00 -0500

Is the start date for a federal prisoner's one-year limitation period the date on which the Court "initially recongized" the right asserted in an applicant's motion, or the date on which the right is "made retroactive?"

Dretke v. Haley - Opinion Announcement

Mon, 03 May 2004 12:00:00 -0500

Does the actual-innocence exception to the procedural-default doctrine apply to both capital and non-capital cases?

Dugger v. Adams - Opinion Announcement

Tue, 28 Feb 1989 12:00:00 -0500

No details yet.

Duncan v. Walker - Opinion Announcement

Mon, 18 Jun 2001 12:00:00 -0500

Is a federal habeas corpus petition is an "application for State post-conviction or other collateral review" within the meaning of 28 USC section 2244(d)(2), such that the one-year statute-of-limitations period under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act is tolled?

Edwards v. Carpenter - Opinion Announcement

Tue, 25 Apr 2000 12:00:00 -0500

May a state prisoner's procedurally defaulted claim of ineffective assistance of counsel excuse the procedural default of another habeas corpus claim?

Evans v. Chavis - Opinion Announcement

Tue, 10 Jan 2006 12:00:00 -0500

When a state court denies a habeas petition summarily, without explanation, does the time that a defendant spent filing that petition count toward the one-year statute of limitations in federal habeas appeals under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act?

Felker v. Turpin - Opinion Announcement

Fri, 28 Jun 1996 12:00:00 -0500

Do the Act's Title I provisions, preventing the Supreme Court from reviewing an appellate review panel's denial of leave to file a second habeas petition, unconstitutionally "suspend" the habeas writ and restrict the Court's authority to entertain original habeas petitions?

Francis v. Henderson - Opinion Announcement

Mon, 03 May 1976 12:00:00 -0500

No details yet.

Garlotte v. Fordice, Governor Of Mississippi - Opinion Announcement

Tue, 30 May 1995 12:00:00 -0500

No details yet.

Hamdan v. Rumsfeld - Opinion Announcement

Thu, 29 Jun 2006 12:00:00 -0500

May the rights protected by the Geneva Convention be enforced in federal court through habeas corpus petitions? Was the military commission established to try Hamdan and others for alleged war crimes in the War on Terror authorized by the Congress or the inherent powers of the President?

House v. Bell - Opinion Announcement

Mon, 12 Jun 2006 12:00:00 -0500

Did the federal appeals court err in applying Schlup v. Delo to hold that House's new evidence, though presenting at the very least an arguable claim of innocence, was legally insufficient to excuse his failure to present that evidence in state court? What constitutes a "truly persuasive showing of actual innocence" under Herrera v. Collins, sufficient to warrant freestanding habeas relief?

Keeney, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary v. Tamayo-Reyes - Opinion Announcement

Mon, 04 May 1992 12:00:00 -0500

No details yet.

Lockyer v. Andrade - Opinion Announcement

Wed, 05 Mar 2003 12:00:00 -0500

Did the Federal Court of Appeals err in holding that California Court of Appeal's affirmation of a sentence of two consecutive terms of 25 years to life in prison for a "third strike" conviction was "grossly disproportionate" to the crime and thus violated the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on "cruel and unusual punishment"?

Massaro v. United States - Opinion Announcement

Wed, 23 Apr 2003 12:00:00 -0500

Must claims of ineffective assistance of counsel, whether or not there is new counsel on appeal and whether or not the basis for the claim is apparent from the trial record, be raised on direct appeal?

Mayle v. Felix - Opinion Announcement

Thu, 23 Jun 2005 12:00:00 -0500

Federal habeas law allowed an amended petition to relate back to the filing date of the original petition if both arose out out of the same "conduct, transaction or occurrence" the original set forth. Did the trial and conviction qualify as a "conduct, transaction or occurrence?"

Mccleskey v. Zant - Opinion Announcement

Tue, 16 Apr 1991 12:00:00 -0500

No details yet.

Miller-El v. Cockrell - Opinion Announcement

Tue, 25 Feb 2003 12:00:00 -0500

Must an inmate demonstrate that a state court's finding of the absence of purposeful discrimination was incorrect by clear and convincing evidence in order for a court of appeals to issue a certificate of appealability?

Miller-El v. Dretke - Opinion Announcement

Mon, 13 Jun 2005 12:00:00 -0500

1. Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, by rejecting Miller-El's claim the prosecution purposefully excluded blacks from his jury, violate the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Miller-El v. Cockrell (2003)? 2. Did the Texas jury selection manual encourage unconstitutional disparate questioning based on race?

O'neal v. Mcaninch, Warden - Opinion Announcement

Tue, 21 Feb 1995 12:00:00 -0500

No details yet.

O'Sullivan v. Boerckel - Opinion Announcement

Mon, 07 Jun 1999 12:00:00 -0500

Must a state prisoner present all of his claims to a state supreme court in a petition for discretionary review in order to satisfy the exhaustion requirement, 28 U. S. C. Sections 2254(b)(1), (c), for federal habeas relief?

Pliler v. Ford - Opinion Announcement

Mon, 21 Jun 2004 12:00:00 -0500

Is a judge required to warn a habeas corpus petitioner who is representing himself that his claims may be barred by a statute of limitations if he chooses to drop the claims and re-file them at a later date?

Price v. Vincent - Opinion Announcement

Mon, 19 May 2003 12:00:00 -0500

Is a defendant's right against double jeopardy violated when a trial judge grants a motion for a directed verdict of acquittal as to first-degree murder, but does not direct such a verdict to the jury that subsequently convicts the defendant of first-degree murder?

Ramdass v. Angelone - Opinion Announcement

Mon, 12 Jun 2000 12:00:00 -0500

Must a jury must be instructed in the death penalty phase of sentencing that if the defendant is not given the death sentence, that he will be ineligible for parole if sentenced to life in prison?

Rasul v. Bush - Opinion Announcement

Mon, 28 Jun 2004 12:00:00 -0500

Do United States courts have jurisdiction to consider legal appeals filed on behalf of foreign citizens held by the United States military in Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba?

Reed v. Farley, Superintendent, Indiana State Prison - Opinion Announcement

Mon, 20 Jun 1994 12:00:00 -0500

No details yet.

Rhines v. Weber - Opinion Announcement

Wed, 30 Mar 2005 12:00:00 -0500

May a federal court stay a habeas petition that included exhausted and unexhausted claims, when the stay was necessary to allow a petitioner to exhaust claims in state court without having the one-year statute of limitations in the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) bar the right to a federal petition?

Rice v. Collins - Opinion Announcement

Wed, 18 Jan 2006 12:00:00 -0500

Does the AEDPA allow a federal court to reject the presumption of correctness for a state-court finding of fact as an "unreasonable determination of the facts," even when a rational fact finder could have determined the facts as the state court did?

Rumsfeld v. Padilla - Opinion Announcement

Mon, 28 Jun 2004 12:00:00 -0500

Does Congress's "Authorization for use of Military Force" authorize the President to detain a United States citizen based on a determination that he is an enemy combatant, or is that power precluded by the Non-Detention Act?

Sawyer v. Whitley, Warden - Opinion Announcement

Mon, 22 Jun 1992 12:00:00 -0500

No details yet.

Schlup v. Delo, Superintendent, Potosi Correctional Center - Opinion Announcement

Mon, 23 Jan 1995 12:00:00 -0500

No details yet.

Stone v. Powell - Opinion Announcement

Tue, 06 Jul 1976 12:00:00 -0500

Were federal courts obligated to consider claims of illegal searches and seizures after such claims had been decided by state courts?

Strickler v. Greene - Opinion Announcement

Thu, 17 Jun 1999 12:00:00 -0500

Did Virginia violate Brady v. Maryland, which provides for the disclosure of all possible exculpatory evidence, when a prosecutor failed to disclose all the exculpatory materials in the police's files? Was there an acceptable reason for Tommy Strickler's failure to raise a Brady claim in state court after such an event? Would the outcome of Strickler's trial been different in presence of the exculpatory evidence?

Stringer v. Black, Commissioner, Mississippi Department Of Corrections - Opinion Announcement

Mon, 09 Mar 1992 12:00:00 -0500

No details yet.

Sumner v. Mata - Opinion Announcement

Wed, 21 Jan 1981 12:00:00 -0500

No details yet.

Swain v. Pressley - Opinion Announcement

Tue, 22 Mar 1977 12:00:00 -0500

No details yet.

Tennard v. Dretke - Opinion Announcement

Thu, 24 Jun 2004 12:00:00 -0500

Does the Supreme Court's prohibition of executing mentally retarded people in Atkins v. Virginia apply if the crime cannot be attributed to mental retardation?

Tyler v. Cain - Opinion Announcement

Thu, 28 Jun 2001 12:00:00 -0500

Was the ruled established under Cage v. Louisiana, that a jury instruction is unconstitutional if there is a reasonable likelihood that the jury understood the instruction to allow conviction without proof beyond a reasonable doubt, "made retroactive to cases on collateral review by the Supreme Court," such that an inmate is entitled to submit successive a habeas petition based on that new rule?

United States v. Mauro - Opinion Announcement

Tue, 23 May 1978 12:00:00 -0500

No details yet.

Wainwright v. Sykes - Opinion Announcement

Thu, 23 Jun 1977 12:00:00 -0500

No details yet.

Wilkinson v. Dotson - Opinion Announcement

Mon, 07 Mar 2005 12:00:00 -0500

(1) May a prisoner bring a claim under 42 U.S.C. 1983 claiming that his parole proceedings violate due process, even though success on the merits of the claim would result only in a new parole hearing and would not necessarily guarantee earlier release from prison? (2) Does a federal court judgment ordering a new parole hearing "necessarily imply the invalidity of" the decision at the previous parole hearing and therefore challenge the sentence itself?

Williams v. Taylor - Opinion Announcement

Tue, 18 Apr 2000 12:00:00 -0500

Does federal law, as amended by the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, bar an evidentiary hearing, if the petitioner has failed to develop the factual basis of his claims in State court proceedings despite diligent efforts?

Williams v. Taylor - Opinion Announcement

Tue, 18 Apr 2000 12:00:00 -0500

Was Terry Williams' constitutional right to the effective assistance of counsel violated? Was the judgment of the Virginia Supreme Court refusing to set aside Williams' death sentence "contrary to, or involved an unreasonable application of, clearly established Federal law, as determined by the Supreme Court of the United States?"

Withrow v. Williams - Opinion Announcement

Wed, 21 Apr 1993 12:00:00 -0500

Does the Supreme Court's ruling in Stone v. Powell that federal habeas corpus review does not cover Fourth Amendment unreasonable search and seizure claims when defendants have already been given a fair chance to argue those claims in state court also apply to Fifth Amendment claims stemming from the withholding of Miranda warnings?

Woodford v. Garceau - Opinion Announcement

Tue, 25 Mar 2003 12:00:00 -0500

Is a federal habeas petition, which was filed after the effective date of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 even though a stay and counsel were sought prior to that date, "pending" for the purposes of Lindh v. Murphy, 521 U.S. 320?

Wright, Warden v. West - Opinion Announcement

Fri, 19 Jun 1992 12:00:00 -0500

No details yet.

Ylst v. Nunnemaker - Opinion Announcement

Mon, 24 Jun 1991 12:00:00 -0500

No details yet.

Zant v. Moore - Opinion Announcement

Wed, 29 Mar 1989 12:00:00 -0500

No details yet.