bench-trial
12 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-605 | James Maharg v. Connecticut | Connecticut | 2025-11-24 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review bench-trial coerced-confession constitutional-error due-process harmless-error | Whether, in a criminal bench trial for murder, a trial judge who admits over objection a defendant's coerced confession to that offense may later insu… |
| 24-5931 | Terrell Dashaun Wesley v. Tyrone Baker, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2024-11-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bench-trial closing-arguments herring-error judicial-procedure trial-rights verdict-timing | Whether a reversible Herring error occurs when a trial judge permits closing arguments only after announcing a verdict |
| 24A86 | Shyne V. Anderson v. Cynthia Davis, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2024-07-25 | Presumed Complete | bench-trial criminal-joinder due-process fair-trial multiple-offenses victim-testimony | Whether the joinder of multiple criminal cases for trial violated the defendant's due process rights and right to a fair trial when the cases involved… | |
| 23A65 | Jacob Hilbert v. Missouri | Missouri | 2023-07-24 | Presumed Complete | bench-trial criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-trial-waiver sixth-amendment valid-waiver | Whether the Sixth Amendment requires that a waiver of the right to a jury trial in a criminal proceeding must be made personally by the defendant, or … | |
| 22-574 | Tiffany Lay, et vir v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-12-21 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review bench-trial bench-trials circuit-court-review civil-procedure federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure findings-of-fact judicial-findings obiter-dictum standard-of-review stare-decisis | Whether Federal District Court judges properly comply with FRCP 52(a) in conducting complex bench trials |
| 21-7548 | Sergey Genadievich Novitskiy v. Colorado | Colorado | 2022-04-05 | Denied | IFP | bench-trial burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial standard-of-proof waiver | Whether a defendant's choice to proceed to a bench trial in a criminal case lowers the prosecution's burden of proof |
| 20-5616 | Zachary Knotts v. West Virginia | West Virginia | 2020-09-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bench-trial competency-hearing constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process indictment-disposition mental-competency proof-standard trial-jurisdiction | if-defendant-not-competent-to-stand-trial |
| 19-7919 | Darius Latrell King v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-03-10 | GVR | IFP | 18-usc-922(g) 9th-circuit-appeal bench-trial felon-in-possession knowledge-requirement prohibited-status stipulated-facts | Whether the defendant's conviction should be vacated and remanded in light of Rehaif v. United States |
| 18-8046 | Stephen L. Paulmier v. Hawaii | Hawaii | 2019-02-21 | Denied | IFP | bench-trial constitutional-rights due-process family-court family-court-procedure hawaii-family-court-rules jury-trial jury-trial-waiver trial-continuance | Whether the ICA gravely erred in failing to recognize Stephen Paulmier's constitutional rights to due-process,jury-trial |
| 18-7951 | Cornell Winfrei McClure v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-02-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2255-motion bench-trial due-process impartiality ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-recusal sua-sponte waiver-of-jury-trial | Should a judge recuse themselves from reviewing a motion challenging their rulings made during a bench trial? |
| 18-753 | Robert Stephen Couturier v. Presiding Judge, Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-12-12 | Denied | arrest-warrant bench-trial certificate-of-appealability due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury ineffective-assistance judicial-impartiality | Did the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals error when it denied The Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability? | |
| 18-6324 | Akinlabi Coleman v. Colorado | Colorado | 2018-10-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bench-trial constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habitual-criminal habitual-offender jury-trial sixth-amendment | Were Mr. Coleman's Sixth Amendment rights to a jury determination of every element of an offense violated when he was only allowed a bench trial to de… |