No. 25-5996

Jean-Michael Kisi v. Joseph Joyce, Warden

Lower Court: Eighth Circuit
Docketed: 2025-10-30
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-deliberation sixth-amendment
Key Terms:
DueProcess Privacy
Latest Conference: 2026-01-09
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the district court's exclusion of the petitioner from the courtroom during jury deliberations violated his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment constitutional rights

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

I. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT EXCLUDING THE PETITIONER FROM THE COURTROOM WHEN PERSONS DISPLAYED THE STATE ’S LAPTOP IN THE DELIBERATION ROOM AND A DISTRICT ATTORNEY RETRIEVED ITEMS OUTSIDE OF THE COURTROOM VIOLATED THE PETITIONER ’S CONSTITUTIONAL SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT OF PRESENCE, CONFRONTATION, AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT DUE PROCESS RIGHT IL WHETHER THE EIGHT CIRCUIT COURTS OF APPEALS ’ DENIAL OF THE PETITIONER ’S APPEAL CLAIM THAT THE DISTRICT COURT EXCLUDING HIM FROM HIS TRIAL DURING JURY DELIBERATIONS VIOLATED HIS SIXTH AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS CONFLICTS WITH THE RELEVENT DECISIONS OF THIS COURT

Docket Entries

2026-01-12
Petition DENIED.
2025-12-11
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/9/2026.
2025-06-18
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due December 1, 2025)

Attorneys

Jean-Michael Kisi
Jean-Michael Kisi — Petitioner
Jean-Michael Kisi — Petitioner