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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-878 | Todd Jeffrey Rogers v. Ohio | Ohio | 2026-01-22 | Denied | constitutional-right impartial-jury ineffective-assistance juror-bias rehabilitation voir-dire | Whether a prospective juror who admitted bias can be rehabilitated through silence or group answers in response to group questions. | |
| 25-6631 | Juan Jose Zarate Sanchez v. Texas | Texas | 2026-01-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process impartial-jury jury-selection sixth-amendment voir-dire | Whether due process and the Sixth Amendment right to an impartial jury are violated when the prosecution conducts panel-wide voir dire using a series … |
| 25-6624 | Ryan Adelbert Johnson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2026-01-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process impartial-jury reasonable-doubt trial-evidence | I. Whether the Due Process Clause of the 5th Amendment was violated when no rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of Counts 1… |
| 25-6544 | Louis Olivarria v. California | California | 2026-01-12 | Pending | Response RequestedIFP | appellate-review deliberations impartial-jury juror-dismissal sixth-amendment trial-court | What standard applies when appellate courts review a trial court's dismissal of a juror during deliberations to determine whether the dismissal was ba… |
| 25-6245 | Dean Alan Smith v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-11-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | allen-instruction due-process fifth-amendment impartial-jury jury-deadlock sixth-amendment | WHETHER THE APPELLATE COURT ERRED IN AFFIRMING THE DISTRICT COURT'S DECISION TO PROFFER NOT ONE BUT TWO DISTINCT ALLEN INSTRUCTIONS WHERE THE JURY WAS… |
| 24-6335 | Marcrease Delance Farmer v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-01-17 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-ineffective-assistance criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-fairness impartial-jury trial-rights | 1) WHETHER COUNSEL LESS CONSTITUTIONALLY EFFECTIVE FOR FAILING TO NOT ONLY INVESTIGATE THE INFORMATION REGARDING AN ALTERCATION BETWEEN TERROR 27 S04 … |
| 24-6323 | Ernest Green v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-01-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-trial impartial-jury racial-bias sixth-amendment voir-dire | In a criminal trial, does the right to an impartial jury, guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment, require a defendant of a minority race to be afforded voi… |
| 24-5528 | Terrace Tyrone Perkins, Sr. v. Nicholas Lamb, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2024-09-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | batson-challenge certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights eighth-circuit impartial-jury pretrial-identification | (1)Whether acircuit court candeny acertificate ofappealability when theApplicant has made asubstantial showing ofthedenial ofimportant constitutional … |
| 24-5227 | James W. Johnson v. United States | Third Circuit | 2024-08-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process impartial-jury impartiality jury-selection peremptory-challenge racial-bias sixth-amendment | Whether a criminal defendant is denied his Due Process and Sixth Amendment right to an impartial jury when the trial court determines that a potential… |
| 24-5166 | Nicholas Joseph v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-07-29 | Denied | IFP | abuse-of-discretion circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure impartial-jury newly-discovered-evidence sixth-amendment unconscious-bias voir-dire | 1) Whether this Court should grant Certiorari to address whether a trial judge, when requested by defense counsel, must voir dire on implicit or uncon… |
| 24-5162 | Johnny Ho v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-07-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure fair-trial impartial-jury judicial-discretion jury-selection peremptory-challenges sixth-amendment voir-dire | This petition involves questions of exceptional importance for jury selection in trials in all jurisdictions across our nation, involving the process … |
| 23-7724 | In Re Shomas T. Winston | 2024-06-14 | Denied | IFP | evidentiary-hearing fair-trial fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury juror-misconduct jury-selection sixth-amendment voir-dire | I. WHETHER A PETITIONER SHOULD BE DENIED AN EVIDENTIARY HEARING TO QUESTION A JUROR WHO FAILED TO DISCLOSE INFORMATION BECAUSE STATE COURTS RULED PETI… | |
| 23-7694 | Juan Antonio Hernandez Alvarado, aka Tony Hernandez v. United States, et al. | Second Circuit | 2024-06-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attorney-client-privilege attorney-communication due-process impartial-jury jury-impartiality law-enforcement-interaction no-contact-rule right-to-counsel waiver | 1. Whether, as a matter of federal law, New York's "no-contact" rule, which prohibits an attorney in a case from communicating with a party he or she … |
| 23-7488 | Jose Eliso Zavala v. Texas | Texas | 2024-05-15 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment 6th-amendment actual-bias constitutional-rights fair-trial fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury juror-bias prejudice sixth-amendment structural-error | QUESTION No. 1 WHETHER OR NOT THE PETITIONER WAS DEPRIVED OF HIS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS TO A FAIR AND IMPARTIAL TRIAL UNDER THE 6TH AND 14TH AMENDMEN… |
| 23A889 | Walter Taylor, III v. Vermont | Vermont | 2024-04-05 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-rights criminal-defense fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury jury-instruction sixth-amendment | Question not identified. | |
| 23-6508 | Jonathan Eugene Brunson v. North Carolina | North Carolina | 2024-01-18 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | capital-crime civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial impartial-jury standing state-courts systemic-bias trial-bias | Whether over-aged persons charged with a crime is entitled to have the Tumen biased trial tungs issue addressed and disposed of in the state trial cou… |
| 23-6472 | Keith L. Allen v. Nebraska | Nebraska | 2024-01-12 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-bar credible-threats impartial-jury juror-misconduct juror-threats no-impeachment-rule sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-violation verdict-influence | Whether a no-impeachment rule constitutionally bars evidence of credible threats of violence against the jurors influencing their verdict offered to p… |
| 23A635 | Jereme Lee Escobedo v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2024-01-09 | Presumed Complete | impartial-jury ineffective-assistance juror-bias sixth-amendment trial-counsel voir-dire | Question not identified. | |
| 23-415 | BP America Production Company, et al. v. Parish of Cameron, Louisiana, et al. | Louisiana | 2023-10-19 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure civil-rights defendant-rights due-process impartial-decisionmaker impartial-jury standing venue venue-transfer voir-dire | Whether a transfer of venue is required before voir dire to ensure a civil defendant's due-process right to an impartial decisionmaker where the entir… |
| 23-5023 | Kirby R. Thomas v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2023-07-03 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-rights criminal-trial due-process equal-protection fair-trial impartial-jury jury-selection petit-venire racial-discrimination | 1) Whether Louisiana deprived Mr. Thomas of his right to an impartial jury trial before his peers through a petit venire selection process that effect… |
| 22-7575 | Larry Edmond v. Tommy Williams, Warden | Tenth Circuit | 2023-05-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process impartial-jury ineffective-assistance jury-bias racial-bias racial-discrimination structural-error trial-court | 1. Whether district court trial abuse its discretion and violated the defendant's constitutional right to an impartial jury when it refused to grant a… |
| 22-7345 | Ali F. Elmezayen v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-04-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights criminal-procedure domestic-abuse due-process fair-trial impartial-jury jury-selection sixth-amendment voir-dire | Whether, consistent with the Sixth Amendment right to an impartial jury, a district court may refuse to inform the venire during jury selection about … |
| 22-7136 | Terry Froman v. Ohio | Ohio | 2023-03-29 | Denied | IFP | 6th-amendment capital-punishment due-process impartial-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juror-selection jury-impartiality racial-bias right-to-counsel trial-procedure | Six members of Terry Froman's capital jury provided answers on their questionnaires that demonstrated that they harbored racial bias. None were meanin… |
| 22-6952 | Brian Duane Brookins v. Georgia | Georgia | 2023-03-07 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process impartial-jury jury-impartiality right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-fairness turner-v-louisiana witness-testimony | In this Georgia death penalty case, the local Sheriff gave key testimony for the State, detailing his investigation of the crime and arrest of Petitio… |
| 22-6678 | Cortez Watts v. Mississippi | Mississippi | 2023-02-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process extraneous-evidence impartial-jury juror-misconduct jury-bias jury-selection trial-procedure | proper/*/ applfei) 4^ 44v? 4^*1 Coor4 &0e><^ 4e^i o£ ^ur^/~ M/sCo^uo-f:JU" jCJ 4^6 5oprfiM€ Coe//'"/" <rt oJfyr/vCiAj 4^6 4r&il Coof 4 AdchUo') .4^*4 … |
| 22-6483 | Eli Sloan v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-01-09 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure impartial-jury jury-selection prejudicial sixth-amendment trial-procedure voir-dire | 1. Whether the voir dire selection was partial or prejudicial in violation of Petitioner. Eli Sloan's Sixth Amendment right to an impartial jury. |
| 22-6411 | Granville Ritchie v. Florida | Florida | 2022-12-29 | Denied | IFP | anti-immigrant capital-penalty capital-punishment constitutional-rights equal-protection immigration-status impartial-jury jury-bias prosecutorial-misconduct unconstitutional-conditions | Does the United States Constitution prohibit a prosecutor from suggesting to a capital penalty jury that the defendant, as a foreigner and an immigran… |
| 22-5964 | Shaun Michael Farrington v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-11-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process impartial-jury implied-bias judicial-discretion jury-impartiality sixth-amendment standing | 1. The circuit courts divide regarding Smith v. Phillips implication of implied bias. This Court should decide whether the Sixth Amendment right to an… |
| 22-5290 | In Re Phillip A. Brown, II | 2022-08-04 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split collins-v-miller final-judgment habeas habeas-corpus impartial-jury jury-bias mandamus remmer-hearing subject-matter-jurisdiction | 1. Whether The Circuit Court Must Recall The Mandate In Extraordinary Cases Where It Lacked Subject Matter Jurisdiction Over A Final Judgment Resultin… | |
| 22-44 | Westley Devone Harris v. Alabama | Alabama | 2022-07-15 | Denied | criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury juror-misconduct jury-selection sixth-amendment voir-dire | 1. Whether a criminal defendant is deprived of his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to an impartial jury when a jury member gives dishonest and i… | |
| 21-1553 | Ramin Khorrami v. Arizona | Arizona | 2022-06-10 | Denied | Amici (3)Relisted (5) | 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process felony fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury jury-trial original-public-meaning precedent sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony. |
| 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 by creating a substantial risk that one or more jurors felt… |
| 21-7370 | Dante Leon Milon v. Tim Hooper, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2022-03-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause due-process fair-trial impartial-jury ineffective-counsel judicial-misconduct jury-misconduct mistrial recusal trial-errors witness-testimony | I) If there is a critical discrepancy within the record Is die transcript complete? And a new trial; permitted? Pg 26 2. A witness allowed to give a… |
| 21-7290 | James L. Caudle v. Florida | Florida | 2022-03-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause confrontation-rights constitutional-protections cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process ex-parte-communication impartial-jury life-imprisonment presumption-of-innocence | I. Whether the fight to due process of law has been denied by State courts allowing the State to evade addressing whether the right to confront the on… |
| 21-6930 | Juan Rivera-George, aka Tio v. United States | First Circuit | 2022-01-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation cross-examination-limitation fair-trial hearsay-admission impartial-jury impeachment-evidence jury-bias jury-impartiality sentencing sentencing-disparity sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right | 1. Whether Juan Rivera-George ("Juan") was deprived of his Sixth Amendment right to a fair trial by an impartial jury when the District Court failed t… |
| 21-6771 | Charles Reddicks v. Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 2022-01-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-records equal-protection fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury jury-selection race-neutral racial-discrimination sixth-amendment | Whether permitting the Government to run criminal records for potential jurors, then use the records of the record check to strike jurors of color, vi… |
| 21-6490 | Earl McCoy v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-12-02 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | appellate-review crime-of-violence fair-trial hobbs-act impartial-jury juror-bias jury-impartiality mcdonough-standard new-trial sixth-amendment | Whether the Court of Appeals erred in analyzing the Petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to trial by a fair and impartial jury by only applying the McDo… |
| 21-6159 | Michael Skinner v. Florida | Florida | 2021-11-02 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | evidentiary-hearing fair-trial guilty-verdict impartial-jury juror-misconduct sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-violation | 1. Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a fair trial before an impartial jury would require an evidentiary hearing, following the disposition of a tri… |
| 21-6061 | John Rodney Johnson v. Donnie Ames, Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex | Fourth Circuit | 2021-10-22 | Denied | IFP | due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury prosecutorial-misconduct racial-bias sixth-amendment | Does a Prosecutor's conduct to interject race comments into a State trial as an appeal to a racial prejudice based on the fact the trial having the in… |
| 21-340 | Orlando Carter v. District of Columbia | District of Columbia | 2021-09-02 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 6th-amendment constitutional-right court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process groppi-precedent groppi-v-wisconsin impartial-jury venue venue-change | Whether the District of Columbia Court of Appeals' categorical prohibition on changes of venue deprives defendants of the right to trial by an imparti… |
| 21-5406 | Bryson Tuesno v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-08-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process hearsay impartial-jury sixth-amendment testimony | Is it a violation of one's 6th amendment right to Impartial Jury by allowing person to contridict another person's testimony with hearsay statements? … |
| 21-23 | Brenda Cook v. West Virginia | West Virginia | 2021-07-08 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury jury-impartiality sixth-amendment voir-dire | I. Has the Petitioner's Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendment right to an impartial jury been violated when the court erred in allowing juror, Victor… |
| 20-8449 | Brian Keith Gorham v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2021-06-30 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus impartial-jury ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-bias jury-selection procedural-default sixth-amendment trial-procedure | Gorham will present three brief statements with three concise questions for this Honorable Court's review. Gorham alleged multiple Sixth Amendment ri… |
| 20-1777 | Willard Hall v. Edward Bickham, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2021-06-24 | Denied | 6th-amendment community-representation due-process effective-assistance fair-cross-section fair-trial fifth-circuit impartial-jury jury-composition probable-cause | (1) Whether the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana properly concluded… | |
| 20-8344 | Harry Sharod James v. Tom Brickhouse, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2021-06-17 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence-admissibility ex-post-facto grand-jury impartial-jury indictment judicial-discretion trial-rights | Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, as applied to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment and presented to a grand jury in th… |
| 20-8000 | Natalie Marie Keepers v. Virginia | Virginia | 2021-05-12 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial impartial-jury interrogation-tactics jury-selection miranda-warnings peremptory-challenges sixth-amendment | 1. Whether a trial court's refusal to remove a potential juror who admits she cannot be certain she can be fair violates the Sixth Amendment guarantee… |
| 20-1512 | Gregory C. Dacanay v. Illinois | Illinois | 2021-04-28 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury impartiality jury-selection law-enforcement sixth-amendment structural-error | Whether law enforcement officers, despite their answers to voir dire questions, can be fair and impartial jury members in a criminal trial in order to… |
| 20-7806 | Zacharias Christopher Lee v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-04-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | compulsory-process constitutional-rights discovery-manipulation due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment impartial-jury sentencing sixth-amendment | 1. THE FOURTH CIRCUIT'S DECISION FINDING REASONABLENESS IN THE SENTENCE IMPOSED BY THE DISTRICT COURT IS CONTRARY TO THE FIFTH AMENDMENT DUE PROCESS C… |
| 20-1308 | Roger D. White v. Super Gasoline, Inc., et al. | Virginia | 2021-03-19 | Denied | Response Waived | 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial impartial-jury jury-selection racial-discrimination voir-dire | Where the trial court engages in tainting a jury (especially during voir dire) making it clearly pro-defense by punishing pro-plaintiff potential juro… |
| 20-1302 | Casey A. McWhorter v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-03-19 | Denied | 28-U.S.C-2254(d)(2) constitutional-rights criminal-defendant death-penalty-mitigation effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-review habeas-corpus impartial-jury ineffective-assistance jury-bias McDonough-Power-Equipment-v-Greenwood mitigation-evidence | This case presents important issues concerning a criminal defendant's constitutional rights to an impartial jury and to the effective assistance of co… | |
| 20-7462 | Anthony Kirkland v. Ohio | Ohio | 2021-03-17 | Denied | IFP | capital-defendant death-penalty fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment | I. Are a capital defendant's rights to a fair trial by an impartial jury, as guaranteed by the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments, denied when on… |
| 20-1256 | Malcolm A. French v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-03-10 | Denied | Response Waived | abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure impartial-jury juror-bias juror-mendacity mcdonongh-test right-to-jury standard-of-review structural-error | The first time this case was before the First Circuit, it remanded for further proceedings on French's motion for a new trial made after information s… |
| 20-7214 | Eric Kurt Patrick v. Florida | Florida | 2021-02-23 | Denied | IFP | fifth-amendment impartial-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juror-bias sixth-amendment trial-strategy voir-dire | Where the purpose of voir dire is to empanel an impartial jury as guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment, but an actual biased juror is not removed for cau… |
| 20-1086 | Randall G. Stephens v. Dow Chemical Company | Ohio | 2021-02-08 | Denied | access-to-courts constitutional-rights court-access due-process impartial-jury judicial-discretion public-trial speedy-trial vexatious-litigator | Whether Administrative Judge John J. Russo's, Journal Entry of April 15, 2019 and Judge Brendan J. Sheehan's, Journal Entry of February 26, 2020 denyi… | |
| 20-6554 | Jeffrey Fay Pike v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-12-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial impartial-jury jury-anonymity jury-selection presumption-of-innocence sixth-amendment | (1) whether cloaking jurors in anonymity impermissibly impairs the presumption of innocence and the right of the accused to an impartial jury and (2) … |
| 20-5644 | Jonathan Limary v. Maine | Maine | 2020-09-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights defense-of-others fair-trial impartial-jury jury-selection self-defense sixth-amendment voir-dire | Did the lower court deny Jonathan Limary the right to a fair and impartial jury under the Sixth Amendment of the United States Constitution, by denyin… |
| 20-5598 | Gary Richardson v. Colorado | Colorado | 2020-09-04 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process family-member impartial-jury jury-selection sixth-amendment structural-error | Whether a trial judge commits structural error violating a defendant's Sixth Amendment and due process rights to an impartial and independent jury by … |
| 20-5286 | Tomas Rodriguez Infante v. Michael Martel, Warden, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-08-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-defendant due-process equal-protection impartial-jury jury-selection peremptory-challenges racial-bias racial-discrimination | 1. "This Court firmly has rejected the view that assumptions of partiality based on race provide a legitimate basis for disqualifying a person as an i… |
| 19-8271 | Loren J. Larson, Jr. v. Alaska | Alaska | 2020-04-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | equal-protection impartial-jury juror-bias jury-trial jury-trial-right no-impeachment-rule racial-bias sixth-amendment | All states and the federal government have one version or another of an evidence rule that generally prohibits the introduction of juror testimony reg… |
| 19-8233 | Reynaldo Alberto Cantu v. Texas | Texas | 2020-04-09 | Denied | IFP | bias constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial impartial-jury judicial-bias juror-misconduct remand trial-procedure | Whether The Texas High Court Error, denying Petitioner the Right to a "fair and impartial trial" failing to Remand Case back to the trial court, after… |
| 19-8197 | Fred Furnish v. Kentucky | Kentucky | 2020-04-07 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process habeas-corpus hearing-impairment impartial-jury juror-bias juror-impartiality jury-selection right-to-fair-trial | When a juror realizes that he has been in an identical situation vis-à-vis the defendant as the victims of the defendant's crimes, is that juror unqua… |
| 19-8078 | Brandon L. Banks v. Illinois | Illinois | 2020-03-23 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-safeguards counsel due-process equal-protection fair-trial fifth-amendment impartial-jury sixth-amendment | Was Petitioner denied Due Process of law for trial by an impartial jury and for equal protection of the law when the Appellate Court applied an unreas… |
| 19-7496 | Garry Dean Stroner v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2020-01-30 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | constitutional-rights discrimination due-process effective-counsel fair-cross-section fair-trial impartial-jury intentional-exclusion jury-composition jury-selection presumption-of-innocence prosecutorial-misconduct systematic-exclusion | 1. Petitioner's trial counsel obtained the jury list two days prior to the day of jury selection. On the day of trial entire panel of sixty-five (65) … |
| 19-7069 | Lee Alvin Vincent v. Brian E. Williams, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2019-12-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment actual-bias co-defendant due-process evidence-presentation fair-trial habeas-corpus impartial-jury implied-bias juror-bias jury-bias sexual-infatuation | Whether a juror's love for an adverse party (co-defendant) constitutes actual or implied bias and thus violates the defendant's right to an impartial … |
| 19-6971 | Comfort Delando Roberts v. Texas | Texas | 2019-12-19 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | confrontation-clause due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment impartial-jury ineffective-assistance presumption-of-innocence sixth-amendment | THE "TOTALITY OF REPRESENTATION" SHOWS THE PERFORMANCE OF,COUNSEL, RONALD D. ZIMMERMAN WAS OBJECTIVELY DEFICIENT AND THEREBY DENIED APPELLANT HIS SIXT… |
| 19-6608 | Steve Romero v. Mike McDonald, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2019-11-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | de-novo-review fair-trial habeas habeas-corpus impartial-jury ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-bias procedural-history sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington | This non-capital habeas case arises out of Steve Romero's 2006 conviction in the state court of California for attempted murder and the Ninth Circuit'… |
| 19-6204 | James Michael Biela v. Nevada | Nevada | 2019-10-08 | Denied | IFP | appellate-counsel appellate-procedure constitutional-amendments due-process fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-impartiality jury-selection sixth-amendment standard-of-review | 1. Whether the Nevada Supreme Court committed error when it applied the wrong standard in failing to grant Mr. Biela relief based upon an unfair and i… |
| 19-6071 | Demetrius Desean Morgan v. Michigan | Michigan | 2019-09-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification first-amendment fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-association impartial-jury ineffective-assistance insufficient-evidence physical-characteristics reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment surveillance-video video-surveillance | 1. Was the evidence of Petitioner's identity as the shooter sufficient to sustain the first-degree murder conviction where that evidence consisted of … |
| 19-330 | Harshad Shah v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-09-11 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | bribery-trial civil-rights due-process fair-trial impartial-jury plain-error-review racial-animus sixth-amendment structural-error trial-by-jury | 1. Is it structural error and a denial of the Sixth Amendment right to "trial by an impartial jury" when the government expressly uses racial animus i… |
| 19-5655 | Chadwick N. Barner v. Illinois | Illinois | 2019-08-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fair-trial illinois-supreme-court-rule-431(b) impartial-jury jury-selection post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment voir-dire | 1) CAN A SPECIFIC TRIBUTE TO KILL BE INFERRED BASED ON THE ACT OF PUSHING A PERSONS HEAD UNDERWATER? 2) CAN THE STATES PRESENTATION OF NONCUMULATIVE … |
| 19-5177 | James Alvin Chaney v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-07-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment impartial-jury inter-circuit-split juror-allegation juror-misconduct jury sixth-amendment trial-court trial-procedure | Is a criminal defendant's Fifth Amendment right of due process and Sixth Amendment right to a trial by an impartial jury violated when the trial court… |
| 18-9261 | Calmer Cottier v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-05-15 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (7)IFP | constitutional-rights cooperating-witness due-process fair-trial impartial-jury jury-deliberation prosecutor-stipulation prosecutorial-misconduct stipulation truthfulness witness-credibility witness-testimony | When the only evidence offered to support a murder conviction is the testimony of the government's cooperating witnesses, does it violate the Constitu… |
| 18-9199 | Peter Alfred Perez v. Michigan | Michigan | 2019-05-09 | Denied | IFP | brady-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure crosby-hearing due-process impartial-jury ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel jury-impartiality mistrial resentencing | DID THE TRIAL COURT ABUSE ITS DISCRETION IN DENYING MR. PEREZ RELIEF FROM JUDGMENT WHERE HE WAS DENIED HIS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO AN IMPARTIAL JURY B… |
| 18-9045 | Kevin Robinson v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison | Third Circuit | 2019-04-30 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 14th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial impartial-jury ineffective-assistance jury-impartiality self-incrimination sixth-amendment | Are trial attorneys obligated to protect every fundamental right entitled to defendants under the United States Constitutional Amendments? If so, did … |
| 18-8920 | Charles Franklin Glasscock v. Jeri Taylor | Ninth Circuit | 2019-04-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-counsel due-process effective-counsel habeas-corpus impartial-jury memorandum-decision ninth-circuit supreme-court | Does the Ninth Circuit's memorandum decision, affirming the denial of habeas corpus relief, contravene this Court's commands regarding the vital guara… |
| 18-8826 | Omar Christopher Miller v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-04-15 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process impartial-jury juror-bias jury-impartiality law-enforcement sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth Amendment right to an impartial jury is violated when prospective jurors are allowed to conceal facts that indicate possible bias - … |
| 18-8577 | Gerald W. Long v. Illinois | Illinois | 2019-03-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights due-process evidence evidence-admission fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury sixth-amendment trial trial-procedure | I. Did the Trial Court err when it concluded that Gerald Long's Fourth Amendment right proscribing unreasonable searches and seizures was not violated… |
| 18-8571 | Javier Pellecer v. California | California | 2019-03-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-rights cumulative-error due-process fair-trial gang-evidence impartial-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel | I. WHETHER THE SPECAL CIRCUMSTANCE AND GANG EVIDENCE ARE UNSUPPORTED BY SUBSTANTIAL EVIDENCE, DENYING PETITIONER DUE PROCESS OF LAW. II. WHETHER THE … |
| 18-8544 | Keith J. Myles v. Florida | Florida | 2019-03-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fair-trial impartial-jury jury standing | DA). Wthy was a"sketch" made up, after there was negative Is or noI's rom the photo line-up? This represents a departuve from a Far Trtal" a ~,λ ror S… |
| 18-8319 | Jason Ray Flick v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. | Third Circuit | 2019-03-07 | Denied | IFP | abuse-of-discretion change-of-venue fair-trial fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury jury-impartiality presumption-of-prejudice pretrial-publicity sixth-amendment | I) Was petitioner denied a fair trial by trial courts abuse of discretion? II) Was petitioner denied effective assistance of counsel when counsel fai… |
| 18-8276 | Derek Sample v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison | Third Circuit | 2019-03-06 | Denied | IFP | certificate-of-appealability constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process due-process,fair-trial,impartial-jury,lesser-inclu fair-trial impartial-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions lesser-included-offense right-to-be-present trial-rights | Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals Erred in Denying Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability on His Claim that the State Court Violated the U… |
| 18-8066 | Roger E. Magana v. Ron Credio, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-02-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process effective-counsel habeas-corpus impartial-jury ninth-circuit sixth-amendment supreme-court-review | Does the Ninth Circuit's memorandum decision contravene this Court's rulings affirming the guarantees of effective counsel and an impartial jury for a… |
| 18-8029 | Charles Russell Rhines v. Darin Young, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2019-02-21 | Denied | Amici (6)IFP | 28-usc-2244(b) amendment anti-gay-animus appellate-procedure appellate-proceedings civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus impartial-jury juror-bias second-or-successive second-or-successive-petition second-or-successive-petitions standing | Could reasonable jurists debate whether a court may permit an amendment to an initial habeas corpus petition, without applying 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)'s l… |
| 18-7696 | Tony J. Walton v. David Ballard, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2019-01-31 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP | due-process fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury judicial-discretion jury-deliberations jury-impartiality sixth-amendment voir-dire | Were the Petitioner's due process right to an impartial jury under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution violated when the trial judg… |
| 18-7590 | Joshua Jacobs v. Texas | Texas | 2019-01-28 | Denied | IFP | 5th-amendment 6th-amendment bias constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-and-impartial-jury fair-trial impartial-jury judicial-discretion jury-selection trial-counsel trial-procedure voir-dire | I. When trial-judge-imposed limitations on voir dire interfere with trial counsel's ability to identify veniremembers whom may be challengeable for ca… |
| 18-7224 | Jose Alejandro Acuna Valenzuela v. Arizona | Arizona | 2019-01-03 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process fair-trial heightened-reliability impartial-jury juror-bias jury-selection motion-to-vacate prosecutorial-misconduct | I. Whether the trial court violated Mr. Acuna's constitutional rights to a fair and impartial jury, to due process, to heightened reliability, and to … |
| 18-7194 | Brandon Lee Colbert v. California | California | 2018-12-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | batson batson-challenge impartial-jury jury-selection peremptory-challenge police-misconduct race-neutral race-neutral-reason sixth-amendment | A United States Department of Justice investigation concluded that law enforcement in defendant's community systemically engages in racist police prac… |
| 18-7145 | William Sadowski v. Randy Grounds, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2018-12-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process fair-trial impartial-jury jury-impartiality police-presence | Whether the presence of uniformed police officers during a trial involving the death of a police officer violates a criminal defendant's right to due … |
| 18-7128 | Joseph A. Bebo v. Sean Medeiros, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk | First Circuit | 2018-12-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2254-standard 28-usc-2254 due-process extraneous-material federal-law habeas-corpus impartial-jury jury-impartiality jury-inquiry supreme-court-review | 1. Whether this Court should clarify its jurisprudence on the right to an impartial jury by addressing the question of whether it is an unreasonable a… |
| 18-753 | Robert Stephen Couturier v. Presiding Judge, Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-12-12 | Denied | arrest-warrant bench-trial certificate-of-appealability due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury ineffective-assistance judicial-impartiality | Did the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals error when it denied The Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability? Is a Defendant denied the right to a fair tr… | |
| 18-749 | JoEllen Mary Crossett v. Michigan | Michigan | 2018-12-11 | Denied | conflicts-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel impartial-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juror-bias jury-selection peremptory-challenges prejudice sixth-amendment state-and-federal-rights trial-procedure | Was Petitioner denied her state and federal rights to the effective assistance of counsel, and did Michigan Court of Appeals err when it confirmed wit… | |
| 18-6351 | Raymond Baker v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-10-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | accomplice-testimony corroboration corroboration-of-accomplice-testimony due-process due-process-rights fair-trial impartial-jury juror-misconduct jury-misconduct post-verdict post-verdict-inquiry | 1. Whether, as a means of protecting a defendant's rights to due process and a fair and impartial jury, the Court should clarify whether, when a defen… |
| 18-5983 | Louis Charlton v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-09-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process fair-opportunity fair-trial impartial-jury present-defense sixth-amendment trial-by-jury trial-rights | Was Petitioner denied the Sixth Amendment guarantee of a trial by an impartial jury when he was not allowed a fair opportunity to present his defense … |
| 18-5928 | Ricardo Limon-Urenda v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-09-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment ambiguous-answer criminal-procedure hearing impartial-jury impartiality ineffective-assistance juror-impartiality jury-selection prospective-juror right-to-counsel sixth-amendment | WHETHER THIS COURT SHOULD GRANT THE WRIT TO CLARIFY AN IMPORTANT AREA OF LAW RELATING TO WHETHER TRIAL COUNSEL RENDERED INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE UNDER T… |
| 18-5524 | Farrell Rochelle v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2018-08-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment 6th-amendment due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment | 1. Whether the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying C.O.A. to trial counsel being ineffective for filing to file a motion for continuance to … |
| 18-5132 | Jonathan Arn Bryant v. Florida | Florida | 2018-07-05 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 14th-amendment 6th-amendment custodial-interrogation due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury right-to-counsel self-incrimination self-incrimination-rights sixth-amendment voir-dire | 1. Whether the State of Florida's use of Bryant's custodial statements against him at trial violated Bryant's Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendment r… |