Cases

643 F.3d 370 (2011) Mumia ABU-JAMAL, a/k/a Wesley Cook v. *SECRETARY, PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS; Conner Blaine, Superintendent, SCI Greene; District Attorney for Philadelphia County; the Attorney General of the State of Pennsylvania, Appellants. *371 *Pursuant to Fed. R.App. P. 43(c). No. 01-9014. United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.<

PRECEDENTIAL UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT _____________ No. 22-2399 _____ ROY L. WILLIAMS, Appellant v. SECRETARY PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS _______________ On Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District

Motion for leave to file a petition for rehearing denied.

USCA11 Case: 21-11591 Document: 30-1 Date Filed: 12/13/2022 Page: 1 of 38 [PUBLISH] In the United States Court of Appeals For the Eleventh Circuit ____________________ No. 21-11591 ____________________ BRANDY BAIN JENNINGS,

Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit denied.

ORDER Betty Cook claimed that her former employer, the Illinois Department of Corrections, refused her a promotion and pressured her to retire early from her job as a correctional counselor because of her age, then 50. At trial she testified that she was held to a more demanding standard than younger workers, was disciplined for infractions that younger workers committed with impunity, and was told that she should retire. The Departmen

OPINION OF THE COURT McKEE, Circuit Judge. I. INTRODUCTION We are asked to decide whether there is a constitutionally protected liberty interest that prohibits the State from continuing to house inmates in solitary confinement 1 on death row after they have been gran

ED CARNES, Chief Judge: *951 This case involves the effect of a Castro error in an earlier federal habeas proceeding on whether a later habeas petition is to be treated as second or successive for purposes of

Case: 19-11921 Date Filed: 08/31/2020 Page: 1 of 58 [PUBLISH] IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT __________________ No. 19-11921 ________________________ D.C. Docket No. 4:17-cv-00214-MW-CAS CARL HOFFER, Individually and on

Case: 14-14054 Date Filed: 02/03/2020 Page: 1 of 61 [PUBLISH] IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT ________________________ No. 14-14054 ________________________ D.C. Docket No. 8:11-cv-02094-EAK-TGW RAY LAMAR JOHNSTON,

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FIRST DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL STATE OF FLORIDA _____________________________ No. 1D21-1101 _____________________________ TAREYAN COOKS, Appellant, v. RICKY D. DIXON, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, Appellee. _____________________________ On appeal from the County Court for Leon County. Augustus D. Aikens, Judge. September 6, 2022 PER CUR

ORDER STEVEN D. MERRYDAY, District Judge. In a single killing spree Jerry Correll murdered four victims, including his ex-wife and their five-year old daughter. Correll petitions for the writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Doc. 71) and challenges the validity of both his convictions for four murders and his four death sentences. Correll asserts numerous errors allegedly committed b

ROGERS, Circuit Judge: The Court hereby vacates its prior opinion, filed August 26, 2016, and substitutes this corrected opinion. , When a Florida jury convicted Cameron Cox in 1998 of three counts, he received prison sentences on Counts 1 and 2 but a süspendéd sentence on Count 3. Between 1998' and 2013, Cox filed several federal habeas corpus petiti

Case: 13-15718 Date Filed: 08/26/2016 Page: 1 of 10 [PUBLISH] IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT ________________________ No. 13-15718 ________________________ D.C. Docket No. 1:13-cv-2270

ED CARNES, Chief Judge: Richard Rambaran is a Florida prisoner serving a life sentence after his convictions in 2008 for second degree murder, armed burglary of an occupied dwelling with battery, and trespass with battery but without a weapon. While his case was on direct appeal to Florida’s Third District Court of Appeal, some district courts of appeal certified to the Florida Sup

2025 WI 24 NICOLE MCDANIEL, et al., Plaintiffs-Respondents-Petitioners, v. WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, Defendant-Appellant. No. 2022AP1759 Decided June 24, 2025 REVIEW of a decision of the Court of Appeals Milwaukee County Circuit Cou

Case: 12-16462 Date Filed: 08/24/2015 Page: 1 of 29 [PUBLISH] IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT ________________________ Nos. 12-16462; 13-10256 ________________________ D.C. Docket No. 1:11-cv-23861-CM

MARCUS, Circuit Judge: Wilfredo Zelaya, a citizen of Honduras, appeals from the district court’s order dismissing his pro se federal habeas petition. Zelaya’s petition challenges his federal conviction for illegal reentry after deportation in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a), (b)(2). He presents a single argument, one which this Court rejected on direct appeal: that he was depo

ED CARNES, Chief Judge: Florida prisoner Michael Griffin asks us to reconsider the single-judge order denying him a certificate of appealability (COA). He argues that jurists of reason could debate whether Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b)(5) and 60(b)(6) permit him to challenge the district court’s judgment denying his § 2254 petition by seeking a retroactive application