closing-arguments

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A651 Alabama v. Michael Anthony Powell Alabama 2025-12-03 Application closing-arguments constitutional-violation fifth-amendment harmless-error prosecutorial-comments right-to-silence Whether a prosecutor's comments during closing arguments that could be interpreted as referencing a defendant's decision not to testify violate the Fi…
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
23-7105 Katherine Barrett v. Kentucky Kentucky 2024-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP closing-arguments criminal-procedure due-process home-incarceration jail-credit jury-instructions presumption-of-innocence prosecutorial-misconduct Did the prosecutor's statement to the jury that the presumption of innocence is gone constitute flagrant misconduct?
23-5971 Kevondric Fezia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP closing-arguments confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process hearsay jury non-testifying-witness prosecutorial-argument sixth-amendment witness-testimony Does the Confrontation Clause apply to statements made by a prosecutor during closing arguments that detail for the jury what a non-testifying witness…
22-7213 Brian Evan Roth v. Florida Florida 2023-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof civil-rights closing-arguments criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-introduction judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct trial-procedure Whether the trial court erred in allowing certain evidence to be introduced and considered as testimony, as well as issues brought up during closing a…
22-6150 Walter Raglin v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-11-23 Denied IFP capital-murder capital-punishment closing-arguments criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance procedural-bar res-judicata state-procedural-bar trial-counsel voir-dire Whether a capital defendant is deprived of the effective assistance of trial counsel
21-7836 Bruce Edward Bingham, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-05-11 Denied IFP burden-of-proof closing-arguments constitutional-ineffective-assistance criminal-procedure discovery-violation due-process due-process-violation prosecutorial-misconduct remorse right-to-counsel Was the prosecution's remarks regarding the 'conscience of the community' and 'remorse' prosecutorial misconduct, or allowable argument?
21-1339 Carlton Richard Nebergall v. Florida Florida 2022-04-08 Denied Response Waived closing-arguments covid-19 covid-19-context deliberation-pressure due-process fair-trial impartial-jury judicial-instruction jury-coercion Did the trial court violate Petitioner's constitutional right to a fair and impartial jury?
21-7380 Frank Henderson Brown v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-03-15 Denied IFP appeal civil-rights closing-arguments due-process evidence-rules ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct standing trial-court-error Whether the trial court erred in allowing the prosecutor to argue facts not in evidence during closing arguments
21-5315 Rafael Arturo Coto Chinchilla v. Louisiana Louisiana 2021-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP closing-arguments criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct sufficiency-of-evidence trial-error Was the evidence sufficient to support the guilty verdict?
20-6317 Robert Petty v. Indiana Indiana 2020-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review closing-arguments constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment trial-procedure Whether the Indiana Courts erred in denying Appellant effective assistance of trial counsel during closing arguments and sentencing, violating the Fif…
20-5463 Rowmoto Rogers v. Gregory Skipper, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP closing-arguments constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process prosecutorial-misconduct trial-procedure witness-credibility Whether the prosecutor was improperly allowed to vouch for the credibility of his star witness during closing arguments, denying various constitutiona…
19-8542 Brian Lamar Brown v. Nevada, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP closing-arguments criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process fair-trial harmless-error jury-instructions legal-prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the prosecutor committed prejudicial misconduct during closing arguments?
19-8479 Bernard J. Fleming v. United States District of Columbia 2020-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP closing-arguments criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial personal-opinion prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-vouching vouching witness-credibility When do comments by a prosecutor in her final and rebuttal arguments to the jury in a criminal case that affirm the veracity of the government's chief…
19-7654 Jean Roussel Eloi v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-process appeal-stages closing-arguments conviction defenses government-misconduct ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection relationship-evidence sealed-records sentencing-guidelines Whether counsel was ineffective for not pursuing all the way through the appeal stages, the government's statement during closing arguments that it sh…
19-573 Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin v. Timothy C. Ward, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) brecht-standard brecht-v-abrahamson closing-arguments constitutional-error fifth-amendment habeas-corpus harmless-error prosecutorial-misconduct substantial-defense Did the Eleventh Circuit improperly determine that the Prosecution's pattern of deliberate and egregious improper comments in closing arguments did no…
19-5566 Reilies Wayne Miller v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP chapman-v-california closing-arguments darden-v-wainwright due-process expert-witness fourteenth-amendment harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions self-defense sixth-amendment Consistent with the Fourteenth Amendment and Chapman v. California, could the harmless error analysis applied by the State as to the self-defense jury…
18-9630 Michael Mancil Brown v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment 6th-amendment,effective-counsel,mistrial,closing-a closing-arguments constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process effective-counsel mistrial sixth-amendment trial trial-rights Was the Petitioner's 6th Amendment Rights to effective counsel violated when Petitioner's Attorney refused a mistrial offer by the Court without consu…
18-9566 Jason Brady Sain v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2019-06-06 Denied IFP closing-arguments credibility due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment theory-of-the-case witness-credibility Was petitioner's sixth and fourteenth amendment rights to a fair trial violated?