directed-verdict

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-5139 Lamar McKay v. Jeff Tanner, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights directed-verdict due-process first-degree-murder insufficient-evidence jury-verdict murder premeditation reasonable-doubt Does due process require reversal where the trial court denied petitioner's motion for a directed verdict on first-degree murder due to insufficient e…
23-7725 Jimmie Lee Walton v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion allen-charge coercion court-of-appeals criminal-procedure Did the Court of Appeals abuse it's discretion in Did the Court of Appeals abuse its discretion in a directed-verdict double-jeopardy due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judgment-of-acquittal judicial-discretion jury-instructions mistrial motion-for-acquittal right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Did Walton receive effective assistance of counsel?
23-6553 Danjuan Antonio McBride v. Virginia Virginia 2024-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquittal criminal-procedure directed-verdict double-jeopardy fifth-amendment retrial Whether the Virginia Supreme Court erred in holding that the petitioner's Fifth Amendment right against double jeopardy was not violated
22-7842 Dashawn Lewis v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-06-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure directed-verdict due-process judicial-error jury-instruction jury-instructions ninth-circuit reasonable-doubt Whether the last sentence of the Ninth Circuit's pattern jury instruction on reasonable doubt is an incorrect statement of the law and akin to a direc…
22-7071 Elmer D. Baker v. Ron Neal, Warden Seventh Circuit 2023-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights directed-verdict due-process ex-post-facto jurisdiction jury-unanimity state-jurisdiction statute-of-limitations verdict-direction Is it a denial of due process when a state imports a due process right and then acquiesces the defendant was denied this right and then arbitrarily ta…
22-6467 Louis Antonio Zayas v. United States Third Circuit 2023-01-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari controlled-substances criminal-procedure criminal-trial directed-verdict due-process evidence-disclosure harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions prosecutorial-conduct Whether the erroneous jury instruction on knowledge requirement constituted harmless error
22-462 Ruby J. Watts v. John Stewart, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-11-16 Denied civil-rights court-appointed-counsel directed-verdict discrimination due-process employment-discrimination employment-law equal-pay-act jury-trial prima-facie-case Did the lower court err in issuing a directed verdict when a prima facie case of discrimination was established?
22-279 Norine Cave v. Suvidha Sachdeva, et al. Georgia 2022-09-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment daubert daubert-standard directed-verdict discovery discovery-requirements due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment Whether a litigant's fundamental right to a fair trial is unjustly deprived by a directed verdict preceding discovery and Daubert requirements
21-6492 Jaime Galvez v. William Muniz, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-12-02 Denied IFP criminal-procedure defendant-rights directed-verdict due-process federal-law harmless-error insanity-defense right-to-remain-silent trial-court-error Whether a trial court's error of forcing a criminal defendant to testify before hearing all of the prosecution's evidence requires automatic reversal …
21-5248 Davion L. Jefferson v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-07-29 Denied IFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment crime-of-violence directed-verdict due-process jury-instructions jury-trial sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Did the district court violate the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause and the Sixth Amendment's Jury Trial Clause
20-8451 J. P. v. Arkansas Arkansas 2021-06-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure directed-verdict due-process motion-for-directed-verdict preservation-of-error procedural-due-process state-criminal-procedure trial-preservation Does the State of Arkansas's strict interpretation and enforcement of a procedural rule which requires criminal defendants to identify the specific fl…
20-7971 Derek A. Rivera v. Connie Horton, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-05-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure directed-verdict due-process expert-testimony fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions murder-conviction sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the defendant was denied a fair trial due to improper other-acts evidence
20-448 Kenneth Ray Strickland v. Texas Texas 2020-10-08 Denied appellate-review assault corpus-delicti directed-verdict due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel summary-rejection summation trial-counsel Whether the appellate court's rejection of the trial court's favorable fact findings violated due process
18-9325 Davion L. Jefferson v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-05-17 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-924c constitutional-rights crime-of-violence directed-verdict due-process jury-trial jury-trial-clause sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether the district court violated the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause and the Sixth Amendment's Jury Trial Clause by directing a verdict on 18 …
18-7265 Rodney Scot Armstrong, Jr. v. Michigan Michigan 2019-01-07 Denied IFP civil-procedure closing-argument de-novo-review directed-verdict legal-preservation motion objection preservation-of-error preservation-of-issues prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review trial-procedure Is a motion for a directed verdict an objection that preserves an issue for and mandates de novo review?
18-6245 Johnny Kirkland v. Progressive Insurance Company, et al. Alabama 2018-10-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights directed-verdict due-process evidence motion-to-dismiss right-to-counsel standing Whether Raymond Lofer vs Wonton, and Negligence
18-22 Young Sung Lee, et al. v. Katelyn Garvey Second Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied civil-procedure directed-verdict diversity-jurisdiction federal-courts judicial-discretion meniscus-injury new-york-insurance-law new-york-law permanent-injury personal-injury rule-50-dismissal rule-50(a) rule-50a serious-injury-threshold state-law-interpretation summary-judgment Whether the Magistrate Judge erred in granting a Rule 50(a) motion for directed verdict
18-5029 Stephen Patrick Black v. Texas Texas 2018-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-rights directed-verdict directed-verdicts due-process fundamental-error jury-trial liberty reasonable-doubt Are directed verdicts constitutional in civil trials relating to indefinite civil commitment?