Habeas Corpus Petition - State

STATE HABEAS / POST-CONVICTION INTAKE AND READINESS WORKSHEET

DO NOT FILE THIS DOCUMENT. It does not select a state, court, remedy, respondent, deadline, or official form. Use it to organize facts and records for qualified counsel. After counsel selects the jurisdiction and remedy, transfer only verified information to that court's current official form or counsel-drafted filing.

1. Urgent Routing Information

☐ Counsel has been told about every known date, pending transfer, hearing, appeal, release event, and prior filing.

2. Remedy Selection — Counsel Only

Counsel should identify the correct procedure before drafting:

3. Judgment, Order, or Custody Being Challenged

Attach copies, if available:

• ☐ Charging instrument
• ☐ Plea agreement and plea transcript
• ☐ Verdict
• ☐ Judgment and sentence
• ☐ Commitment or custody order
• ☐ Revocation or disciplinary order
• ☐ Docket sheet
• ☐ Other: [________________________________________________]

4. Direct Review and Prior Proceedings

Record every prior or pending proceeding, whether filed by counsel or without counsel.

For each proceeding, attach:

• ☐ Filing
• ☐ Opposition or answer
• ☐ Hearing transcript
• ☐ Order or opinion
• ☐ Notice of entry / mailing record
• ☐ Appellate mandate
• ☐ Proof of filing date
• ☐ Other: [________________________________________________]

5. Deadline and Successive-Filing Audit

Do not calculate a deadline from memory. Counsel should record each controlling source and calculation.

Prior or successive-filing restrictions identified by counsel:

[____________________________________________________________]

6. Issue Inventory

Describe the facts without assigning a legal label unless counsel has verified it.

Issue 1

What happened:

[____________________________________________________________]

Who was involved and who knew:

[____________________________________________________________]

When and where it happened:

[____________________________________________________________]

Record, witness, transcript, or exhibit supporting it:

[____________________________________________________________]

Where the same issue was previously presented, if anywhere:

[____________________________________________________________]

Issue 2

What happened:

[____________________________________________________________]

Who was involved and who knew:

[____________________________________________________________]

When and where it happened:

[____________________________________________________________]

Record, witness, transcript, or exhibit supporting it:

[____________________________________________________________]

Where the same issue was previously presented, if anywhere:

[____________________________________________________________]

Issue 3

What happened:

[____________________________________________________________]

Supporting record and prior presentation:

[____________________________________________________________]

7. Record and Evidence Inventory

• ☐ Complete trial or hearing transcripts
• ☐ Exhibits
• ☐ Discovery
• ☐ Police, agency, laboratory, medical, or expert records
• ☐ Counsel file
• ☐ Witness statements and contact information
• ☐ Correspondence and electronic communications
• ☐ Newly located item, with date and method of discovery
• ☐ Custody, classification, disciplinary, parole, or release records
• ☐ Other: [________________________________________________]

Missing material and efforts to obtain it:

[____________________________________________________________]

8. Counsel Review of Each Proposed Issue

9. Filing-Packet Readiness

Before any filing is prepared:

• ☐ The state, court, remedy, respondent, and official form are selected.
• ☐ Current official law and rules were fetched and read.
• ☐ Every deadline was calculated and independently checked.
• ☐ Every prior filing and decision was reviewed.
• ☐ Every issue was matched to its record support and prior presentation.
• ☐ Successive-filing, waiver, preservation, and procedural-default issues were analyzed.
• ☐ Required exhibits, copies, fee materials, verification, and service materials are ready.
• ☐ The final filing contains no option text, drafting notes, or unsupported factual assertion.
• ☐ A lawyer licensed in the selected state reviewed the completed filing.

10. Intake Certification

I certify only that the factual information I supplied in this intake is complete to the best of my present knowledge. I understand that this worksheet is not a court filing and does not select or preserve any claim, deadline, or remedy.

Signature: ____________________________________ Date: [__/__/____]

Printed name: [________________________________________________]