| 23-6804 |
Jonathan Douglas Richardson v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2024-02-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky constitutional-rights flowers-v-mississippi jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes prosecutorial-misconduct racial-animus racial-discrimination |
Whether the Supreme Court of North Carolina violated this Court's clear precedent when it held that trial judges have 'broad discretion' to refuse to … |
| 22-6107 |
Jarmal Williamson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-11-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky circuit-split equal-protection flowers-v-mississippi jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination |
Does Batson v. Kentucky and its progeny instruct courts to consider repeated misstatements of the record by a prosecutor as suggestive of pretext when… |
| 22-6057 |
Tony Terrell Clark v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2022-11-15 |
Denied |
Relisted (15)IFP |
batson-v-kentucky civil-rights due-process flowers-v-mississippi jury-selection racial-discrimination |
Whether Mississippi continues to misapply Batson v. Kentucky |
| 22-5667 |
Charles Stevens v. Ron Davis, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-09-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky comparative-juror-analysis flowers-v-mississippi habeas-corpus-standard juror-similarity miller-el-v-dretke ninth-circuit-review peremptory-strike race-based-challenge racial-discrimination |
Whether a state court improperly expands or modifies the Batson standard by requiring a defendant to establish that a juror removed peremptorily is st… |
| 20-6260 |
Sherman Johnson, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-11-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
eighth-circuit equal-protection fifth-amendment flowers-v-mississippi foster-v-chatman juror-strikes jury-selection miller-el-v-dretke prosecutorial-discrimination voir-dire |
Whether the District Court and United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit considered the full context of the other evidence of discriminati… |
| 19-5132 |
Kenneth D. Sills v. Anne L. Precythe, Director, Missouri Department of Corrections |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
batson-v-kentucky constitutional-rights criminal-procedure flowers-v-mississippi ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection peremptory-challenges prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination sixth-amendment |
Whether certiorari should be granted where trial counsel was ineffective in failing to object to the prosecution's pretextual explanation for exercisi… |
| 18-7094 |
Floyd Daniel Smith v. California |
California |
2018-12-19 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (2)IFP |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky due-process equal-protection flowers-v-mississippi jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination |
Whether striking black jurors by using racially charged characteristics unrelated to the case is permissibly race-neutral |