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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Tags Question Presented
24-6698 Joseph Smith v. United States District of Columbia 2025-03-04 Denied constitutional-challenge cross-section-challenge duren-test fourth-amendment jury-selection systemic-exclusion What is the proper test to determine a cross-section challenge under the Duren second prong, and how to resolve if intertwined within the 'systemic ex…
20-8101 Joseph Weldon Smith v. Perry Russell, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-05-21 Denied brecht-standard brecht-v-abrahamson capital-sentencing harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions jury-trial sixth-amendment stromberg-error stromberg-v-california Whether a federal court may disregard the prejudice resulting from Stromberg error and instead ask only what a hypothetical jury instructed on a valid…
20M42 Joseph Smith, aka Elijah Smith-Weeks v. United States Parole Commission District of Columbia 2020-11-02 Presumed Complete None
19-881 Joseph Smith, et al. v. Pamela Motley, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-01-16 Denied anecdotal-evidence burden-of-proof civil-rights discriminatory-policing disparate-treatment equal-protection government-treatment ninth-circuit statistical-analysis Whether plaintiffs can establish an Equal Protection Clause violation based solely on anecdotal evidence of differential treatment, without statistica…