external-influence
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-7473 | Obel Cruz-Garcia v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2025-06-20 | Denied | IFP | capital-punishment circuit-precedent external-influence habeas-corpus jury-deliberations religious-text | Whether a jury foreman's introduction of a religious text during capital murder trial deliberations constitutes an improper external influence warrant… |
| 23-7313 | Jason Dale Kechego v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-04-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cell-phone-use external-influence jury-deliberation jury-impasse jury-misconduct partial-verdict Remmer-hearing Supreme-Court-Rule-14 verdict-procedure | Whether a district court must hold a Remmer hearing when a juror indicates that other jurors are using cell phones and meeting in a second room |
| 21-1424 | Marjana Hoti v. City of Warren, Michigan | Michigan | 2022-05-05 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (3) | due-process external-influence fair-trial judicial-ethics jury-misconduct jury-tampering prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-procedure | Is it an external influence on the jury when the prosecutor and one of the sitting jurors had prior secret contacts before the trial starts? |
| 21-6132 | Shelton Marbury v. United States | District of Columbia | 2021-10-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process external-influence government-burden jury jury-influence presumption-of-prejudice sixth-amendment | Whether under the Sixth Amendment, once a defendant has presented evidence that an external influence has reached his jury, a presumption of prejudice… |
| 20-8093 | Martin James Kipp v. Ron Broomfield, Acting Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2021-05-20 | Denied | IFP | bible-reading biblical-reference capital-punishment capital-trial constitutional-rights external-influence habeas-corpus jury-deliberation jury-deliberations mattox-v-united-states presumed-prejudice remmer-v-united-states | Whether clearly established federal law requires that a habeas petitioner's claim that his constitutional rights were violated because a juror read pa… |