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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24A626 Larry E. Parrish v. Supreme Court of Tennessee Tennessee 2024-12-26 Presumed Complete constitutional-challenge due-process fourteenth-amendment impartial-judge judicial-recusal structural-right Whether a state supreme court rule requiring timely judicial recusal motions violates a litigant's structural due process right to an impartial judge …
24-5079 John W. Patton v. Louisiana Louisiana 2024-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence confrontation constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial grand-jury impartial-judge judicial-interference perjury pro-se-defendant sixth-amendment stand-by-counsel transcript Due-process
23-5463 Dexter Leemon Johnson v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-08-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment bills-of-attainder due-process impartial-judge indian-territory issues-of-first-impression jurisdiction legal-standard state-sovereignty Whether Oklahoma lacks jurisdiction in Indian territory due to its status as a state being void, whether Oklahoma's prosecution of the petitioner was …
22-1214 Mohsin Mazhar Syed v. Texas Texas 2023-06-15 Denied campaign-contributions caperton-precedent caperton-v-a-t-massey-coal-co constitutional-conflict due-process impartial-judge judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality recusal recusal-standards Whether the due process clause requires recusal of a judge who has received substantial campaign contributions from a party or the party's attorney in…
22-1013 J. R. v. North Carolina North Carolina 2023-04-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process impartial-judge judicial-bias judicial-impartiality liberty-interest north-carolina-law trial-judge trial-procedure Whether the right to an impartial judge is violated when the trial judge also performs the role of the advocate for incarceration
21-5198 Dustin Trevino Lawrence v. Ohio Ohio 2021-07-27 Denied IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial impartial-judge judicial-bias manifest-weight manifest-weight-of-evidence proportionate-sentencing reasonable-doubt sentencing Appellant's right to due process of law
20-838 Kim Blandino v. Nevada, et al. Nevada 2020-12-22 Denied constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-exercise impartial-judge judicial-impartiality structural-error Whether a criminal defendant's right to an impartial judge under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments requires correction before trial or conviction
19-303 Arthur Rodriguez Bautista v. Texas Texas 2019-09-05 Denied appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus impartial-judge ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the trial judge's repeated improper comments throughout the trial demonstrated his bias in favor of the prosecution and denied Petitioner due …
19-5459 Edward Lee Carter v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-08-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial impartial-judge judicial-impartiality judicial-misconduct sixth-amendment Whether a criminal defendant is constitutionally entitled to a fair trial from an impartial judge who is not corrupt to preside and rule over his tria…
18-7274 Reginald L. Spears, aka RLS Ar Abdul Aziz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure bias certificate-of-appealability due-process fifth-circuit impartial-judge judicial-bias procedural-error strawman-argument Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals introduced and attacked a strawman argument as a basis to deny appellant a COA, and whether this violates d…
18-6775 Edward Joseph Kehoe v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure fourth-amendment harmless-error impartial-judge judicial-error racial-bias racial-discrimination reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure structural-error warrantless-search Whether the clearly improper use of a person's race by a judge to support a finding of reasonable suspicion justifying a warrantless search and seizur…