Kentucky Habeas Corpus Law

<H2> Eduardo Lopez Miranda v. Samuel Olson

Covington, Kentucky criminal defense lawyer represented the Plaintiff seeking a writ of habeas corpus.... More...

$0 (11-25-2025 - KY)
CHRISTOPHER LUTIN V. COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY

<br> <center><br> <table><br> <td><br> <img width="400" src=" http://kool.corrections.ky.gov/Content/OffenderPhotos/0499911.jpg"> <br> </td><br> </table><br> <h2> <font color="red"> </font> </h2><br> </center><br> <br> Christopher Lutin’s father, Felix Lutin, and Brian Quintero’s mother,<br> Teresa Vidales, were in a long-term relationship when Lutin and Quintero were<br> growing up. Felix... More...

$0 (06-16-2020 - KY)
David Samarripa v. J. Ray Ormond

<center><br> <img width="300" src="http://www.kyed.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/slideshow1_0_0.gif"><br> </center><br> Indigent individuals may seek permission in the district court to appeal adverse judgments without prepayment of appellate filing fees. At issue in today’s five consolidated cases, each filed under 28 U.S.C. § 2241, is whether district courts may grant such motions in part ... More...

$0 (03-11-2019 - KY)
William O. Ayers v. Johnathan Hall, Warden

William Ayers was an experienced criminal-defense attorney in Kentucky who found himself on the wrong end of counsel’s table when he was indicted in 2008 on five counts of failing to file state tax returns. While Ayers undeniably represented himself throughout the twenty-one months between his indictment and his trial, it is undisputed that he never formally elected to do so: he never waived his... More...

$0 (08-25-2018 - KY)
William Eugene Thompson v. Phillip w. Parker, Warden

In 1986, Petitioner William Thompson, having served twelve<br> years of a life sentence for an unrelated murder for hire, killed his prison-farm supervisor, stole<br> his wallet, keys, and pocketknife, and fled. Thompson was captured at a bus station in<br> Madisonville, Kentucky, and charged with murder, robbery, and escape, for which he was tried<br> by jury and sentenced to death, twenty years,... More...

$0 (08-14-2017 - KY)
United States of America v. Deric Lostutter

Lexington, KY - Winchester Man Sentenced To 24 Months For Illegally Hacking Into Website And Lying To Federal Agents<br> <br> A Winchester, Ky., man, who previously admitted to hacking and taking control of a high school sports website, to gain publicity for his online identity and harass and intimidate the website owner and others, has been sentenced to 24 months in federal prison.<br> <br> U.S. ... More...

$0 (03-08-2017 - KY)
<b><h3>JONATHAN MCDANIEL V. COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY AND DAVID DESHIELDS V. COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY AND JOHN C. MARTIN V. COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY </b></h3> <table> <td>

Although the procedural history of this case, particularly the effect of <br> appointed counsel's involvement once DPA was belatedly enlisted in the cause, <br> is most germane to the issues before us, we necessarily begin with brief <br> accounts of the three defendants' cases. In March 2010, Jonathan McDaniel <br> pled guilty in the Calloway Circuit Court to one count of first-degree sex abuse, ... More...

$0 (09-04-2016 - KY)
JAMES T. HINMAN II V. COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY

Appellant and his wife, Lily,' married in the fall of 2012. Almost <br> immediately, the relationship began to deteriorate. According to Lily's trial <br> testimony, Appellant became angry on March 12, 2013 after she rejected his <br> sexual advances. He warned Lily that he would teach her to never to reject him <br> again and, for the next two hours, he repeatedly struck her about the face and <b... More...

$0 (03-17-2016 - KY)
PATRICK DEON RAGLAND V. COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY

On December 28, 2010, Kerry Mitchell was found dead in a closet in his <br> unlocked apartment. His body was bruised and bloody, and decomposing. A <br> strap from a gym bag was wrapped around his neck, and a bloody footprint <br> was visible on the back of his shirt. The medical examiner attributed Mitchell's <br> death to two causes: loss of blood and lack of sufficient oxygen to vital organs <b... More...

$0 (12-27-2015 - KY)
PATRICK DEON RAGLAND V. COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY

On December 28, 2010, Kerry Mitchell was found dead in a closet in his <br> unlocked apartment. His body was bruised and bloody, and decomposing. A <br> strap from a gym bag was wrapped around his neck, and a bloody footprint <br> was visible on the back of his shirt. The medical examiner attributed Mitchell's <br> death to two causes: loss of blood and lack of sufficient oxygen to vital organs <b... More...

$0 (12-27-2015 - KY)
Perry v. Agriculture Dept

On November 29, 2011, Perry arrived at the Federal Transfer Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma ("FTC-Oklahoma), but was separated from other intake inmates because "he was being housed in [the Special Housing Unit ("SHU")] due to a 2007 assault in Kentucky." [Record No. 1, p. 11, ¶¶ 84-85] Perry states that he was "subjected to metal detectors and X-ray body scans due to suspicion of alleged cont... More...

$0 (12-26-2015 - KY)
Ronnie Bowling v. Randy White

The record in this case is sparse because it concerns the certification of a <br> question of law, and we are thus dependent on the facts as articulated by the <br> I The second question was: "Factually, has Bowling's Rockcastle County sentence expired?" We did not certify the second question because it required a factual determination that is the task of the trial court, not of a court that is on... More...

$0 (10-06-2015 - KY)
Gary R. Woolbright v. Cookie Crews

Petitioner Gary Woolbright appeals the district court's denial of<br> the ineffective-assistance-of-trial-counsel (IATC) claims contained in Woolbright's federal<br> habeas petition. For the reasons stated below, we DENY the Warden's motion to vacate the<br> No. 13-6115 Woolbright v. Crews Page 2<br> certificate of appealability, AFFIRM IN PART the district court's denial of three IATC claims,<br>... More...

$0 (06-29-2015 - KY)
Frederick Jesse Harris v. Glenn Haeberlin

Previously, we remanded Frederick Jesse Harris's 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition to the district court for a hearing to determine whether the prosecutors at his state trial had exercised certain peremptory strikes in a racially discriminatory manner. The district court held a reconstructed Batson v. Kentucky,<br><br>1<br><br>No. 09-5858 Harris v. Haeberlin Page 2<br><br>476 U.S. 79 (1986), hearing an... More...

$0 (05-28-2014 - KY)
Tyreese Hall v. Gary Beckstrom

Tyreese Hall and his uncle beat a homeless man so<br> viciously that the man fell into a coma and died 53 days later. As a result, Hall and his uncle were<br> jointly tried and convicted of murder, first-degree robbery, and first-degree sodomy. After the<br> Kentucky Supreme Court denied Hall's direct appeal, he filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus<br> in the Western District of Kentucky. ... More...

$0 (04-15-2014 - KY)
<a href="http://pacer.ca6.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/getopn.pl?OPINION=02a0209p.06" target="_new">Beverly K. Barton v. Paul G. Summers, et al.</a>

Plaintiffs-appellants, Medicaid recipients with tobacco-related illnesses, appeal the dismissal of their actions seeking injunctions against two states, Kentucky and Tennessee (the States). Plaintiffs seek to intercept tobacco settlement money due to the States under the Master Settlement Agreement between a number of settling states and tobacco manufacturers. We affirm the dismissal of Plaintiffs... More...

$0 (06-13-2002 - KY)