juror-bias

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25-878 Todd Jeffrey Rogers v. Ohio Ohio 2026-01-22 Pending 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.
25-6279 Steven Matthew Wolf v. Florida Florida 2025-12-03 Denied IFP capital-punishment death-penalty fourteenth-amendment juror-bias jury-selection sixth-amendment Whether Mr. Wolf was deprived of a jury of his peers as guaranteed by the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments where the trial court removed a juror who pr…
25-5789 Joseph Anthony Barrett v. California California 2025-10-02 Denied IFP criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment implicit-bias juror-bias jury-selection sixth-amendment When a charged crime occurs within prison walls, do the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments require excusal for cause of prospective jurors who are employ…
25-5653 Oren Lewis v. Brand Huffman, Superintendent, South Mississippi Correctional Institution Fifth Circuit 2025-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights exculpatory-evidence fair-trial ineffective-assistance juror-bias trial-counsel 1. If PETITIONER WAS DEPRIVED OF A FAIR TRIAL BEFORE AN IMPARTIAL JURY BECAUSE A JUROR CONCEALED RELEVENT INFORMATION ABOUT HER RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE…
24-6875 Kayle B. Bates v. Florida Florida 2025-03-27 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-trial juror-bias jury-contact legal-procedure post-verdict-communication Whether Florida unconstitutionally limits post-verdict contact between former jurors and attorneys
24A216 Lance Shockley v. David Vandergriff, Warden Eighth Circuit 2024-08-28 Presumed Complete ineffective-assistance juror-bias jury-misconduct right-to-fair-trial sixth-amendment voir-dire Whether a trial court's refusal to inquire into a juror's potential bias, stemming from a published book with violent vigilante themes, constitutes a …
24-5173 Sir Mario Owens v. Colorado Colorado 2024-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky criminal-justice-system driving-while-black equal-protection juror-bias jury-selection peremptory-strike peremptory-strikes race-neutral race-neutral-justification racial-discrimination Whether expressly linking a black juror's remark in a jury questionnaire indicating that he had an 'unpleasant experience' with police (namely, 'drivi…
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 Whether the petitioner was deprived of his constitutional rights to a fair and impartial trial
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 Whether a criminal defendant's Sixth Amendment right to an impartial jury is violated when a juror with a potential familial connection to a witness i…
23-416 Derek Michael Chauvin v. Minnesota Minnesota 2023-10-19 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived change-of-venue community-bias community-harm criminal-procedure juror-bias juror-prejudice presumed-prejudice sixth-amendment venue-change voir-dire Whether community harm and threat of harm is a presumed community bias and must be considered as a singular inquiry as an extreme case creating circum…
23-5193 Bradley Ross Fairbourn v. Neicole Morden, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus impliedly-biased-juror juror-bias strickland-standard strickland-v-washington structural-error weaver-v-massachusetts Whether the Strickland actual-prejudice standard applies to a structural error in the form of an impliedly-biased juror
22-7529 Storm N. Rivera v. New York New York 2023-05-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel juror-bias jury-selection mode-of-proceedings mode-of-proceedings-error rape-prosecution sexual-abuse Whether a juror who failed to disclose during jury selection that she was a victim of sexual abuse should have been disqualified
22-7374 Earl McCoy v. United States Second Circuit 2023-04-26 Denied IFP court-of-appeals due-process false-statements juror-bias jury-selection mcdonongh-test mcdonough-standard new-trial sixth-amendment voir-dire whether-the-court-of-appeals-misapplied-mcdonongh
22-7187 Jody Lynn Ward v. South Carolina South Carolina 2023-04-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment certiorari-denial due-process fair-trial judicial-misconduct juror-bias juror-impartiality remmer-hearing Was petitioner prejudiced when the South Carolina Supreme Court denied his writ of certiorari on oral arguments
22-5812 Sir Mario Owens v. Colorado Colorado 2022-10-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process extraneous-information federal-courts implied-bias juror-bias mattox-remmer-presumption outside-influence postconviction-proceedings remmer-presumption Whether the presumption of prejudice established in Mattox and Remmer continues to apply to cases involving juror exposure to extraneous information a…
21-7371 Sherman Collins v. Alabama Alabama 2022-03-15 Denied IFP capital-trial cause-challenge civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment juror-bias jury-selection prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-relationship standing Does a trial court's erroneous failure to remove for cause jurors with personal and professional relationships with a prosecuting attorney violate the…
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
21-447 Matthew Nix v. United States Second Circuit 2021-09-22 GVR Relisted (2) actual-bias categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-procedure hobbs-act implied-bias juror-bias juror-dishonesty mcdonongh-power-equipment mcdonough-standard new-trial new-trial-standard Whether a new trial is warranted upon a showing of intentional or inadvertent juror dishonesty
21-444 Andre Lee Thomas v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-09-22 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (22) aedpa-deference capital-punishment fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juror-bias racial-bias schizophrenia supreme-court-precedent voir-dire Denial of constitutional rights to impartial jury and effective assistance of counsel
21-5529 Amando Martinez Montealvo v. Iowa Iowa 2021-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure juror-bias new-trial presumed-bias sex-abuse trial-rights voir-dire Does the presumed bias doctrine require a new trial when a juror who was a victim of sex abuse lies during voir dire to serve in a criminal sex abuse …
20-1799 Hozie Rowell v. Joan Ferreira, et al. Second Circuit 2021-06-24 Denied Response Waived batson-challenge civil-rights due-process equal-protection juror-bias jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike racial-discrimination Did the court of appeals contravene Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986)
20-8414 Cynthia Stiger v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-06-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP alternate-jurors bias circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process health-care-fraud judicial-discretion juror-bias jury-selection restitution-liability supervised-release Did the Fifth Circuit err in holding that the district court did not abuse its discretion in refusing to strike a juror during trial based on perceive…
20-7930 Oscar Smith v. Tennessee Tennessee 2021-05-05 Denied IFP death-penalty death-sentence due-process fair-trial fundamental-rights juror-bias juror-misconduct procedural-rules state-court-proceedings Whether a state court violates the federal due process rights of a death-sentenced prisoner who has asserted a colorable claim of juror bias and/or mi…
20-7661 Rodney Russell v. United States First Circuit 2021-04-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review due-process ex-parte-communication juror-bias juror-dishonesty jury-selection motive structural-error Whether the district court violated due process by appointing the Federal Defender to represent a juror and inform the juror of the legitimacy of the …
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 When a criminal defendant claims the structural error of deprivation of the right to trial by an impartial jury, is that claim appropriately reviewed …
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…
20-6211 Michael Anthony Robbins v. California California 2020-11-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP due-process investigation juror-bias jury-trial racial-bias sixth-amendment What constitutes juror bias for purposes of removing a sitting juror during deliberations?
20-5582 In Re Karl-Heinz Dupuy 2020-09-03 Denied IFP batson-hearing constitutional-rights deliberation-errors due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juror-bias jury-selection trial-procedure Whether the failure of counsel to seek a Batson hearing to present evidence of a pattern of discrimination in jury selection, and the failure to prese…
20-5362 David Wayne Allen v. Betty Mitchell, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-08-14 Denied IFP biased-juror death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus juror-bias ohio-supreme-court sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent Did the trial court's refusal to dismiss a biased juror from a Death Penalty Panel, deprive Petitioner Allen of protection under the Sixth and Fourtee…
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 Whether a no-impeachment rule constitutionally may bar evidence of juror bias when offered to prove a violation of the Sixth Amendment to an impartial…
19-8251 Kevin Duane Talkington v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-04-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juror-bias jury-instructions jury-selection Counsel's failure to strike biased juror,counsel's failure to investigate and present exculpatory evidence,court's failure to provide oral verbatim ju…
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-a-vis the defendant as the victims of the defendant's crimes, is that juror unqua…
19-7583 Tiffany R. Byrd v. Frederick Boutte, Warden Fifth Circuit 2020-02-07 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-preservation exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-search juror-bias jury-misconduct law-enforcement procedural-violations search-and-seizure Whether Tiffany R. Byrd #61935 was entitled to relief on an ineffective assistance of counsel claim based on trial counsel's failure to investigate an…
19-7518 Baltazar Reyes Garcia, Angel Serrano Carreno, and Hector Contreras Ibarra v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-procedure criminal-procedure defendant-rights district-court-discretion due-process juror-bias juror-inquiry juror-safety jury-bias jury-inquiry ninth-circuit-precedent standing Whether a district court must hold a requested jury inquiry after a juror makes statements indicating the juror has a potential source of bias because…
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 …
19-6860 In Re Lee Hall 2019-12-04 Denied IFP biased-juror capital-case capital-punishment due-process extraordinary-circumstances habeas habeas-corpus habeas-review juror-bias original-jurisdiction structural-error Whether the structural error of service of by biased juror in a capital case, discovered on the eve of execution, presents extraordinary circumstances…
19-6479 In Re Charles Russell Rhines 2019-11-01 Denied IFP capital-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus juror-bias sexual-orientation Should this Court exercise its original habeas jurisdiction to transfer this petition to the district court for a hearing regarding Petitioner's subst…
19-6272 Mauricio Lara-Bonilla v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky civil-rights discriminatory-intent due-process equal-protection juror-bias jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike trial-court-discretion Whether a party's challenge for cause to a minority juror is a relevant circumstance a trial court should consider when evaluating claims of discrimin…
18-9665 Alejandro Hernandez-Delgado v. California California 2019-06-13 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence-code evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment juror-bias juror-misconduct jury-deliberations racial-bias racial-stereotypes sixth-amendment What fact-finding procedures are required by the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments when a defendant makes a threshold showing that a juror relied on rac…
18-9272 Loren J. Larson, Jr. v. Nancy Dahlstrom, Commissioner, Alaska Department of Corrections Alaska 2019-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction juror-bias jury-bias no-impeachment-rule right-to-remain-silent sixth-amendment Does the Equal Protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment require courts to apply a Sixth Amendment constitutional exception to a no-impeachment ru…
18-8968 Emmanuel Mathis v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process extraneous-communication habeas-corpus judicial-proceeding judicial-review juror-bias jury-misconduct remmer-hearing supervisory-power Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, as…
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
18-8643 Joseph Lee Flores v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-04-01 Denied IFP bias criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juror-bias jury-selection sixth-amendment trial-counsel voir-dire WHETHER VENIREMAN WHO STATED DURING VOIR DIRE THAT HIS ABILITY TO BE FAIR WOULD BE AFFECTED BY PRIOR EXPERIENCE WITH CRIME EXPRESS BIAS; RENDERING COU…
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…
18-7658 Julius Darius Jones v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2019-01-30 Denied IFP capital-punishment constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment juror-bias post-conviction post-conviction-review racial-prejudice sixth-amendment Whether newly-discovered evidence establishes that racial prejudice influenced the decision of at least one juror to convict Mr. Jones and sentence hi…
18-937 Abelino Manriquez v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation California 2019-01-18 Denied actual-bias capital-case capital-punishment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus implied-bias juror-bias jury-impartiality life-experiences sixth-amendment What test determines whether a juror's life experiences are so similar to facts in the case that the juror must be disqualified for bias under the Six…
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 Whether the trial court violated Mr. Acuna's constitutional rights to a fair and impartial jury, to due process, to heightened reliability, and to be …
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…
18-6899 John Uranga, III v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-12-07 Denied IFP certiorari circuit-split circuit-splits constitutional-error constitutional-violations de-minimis federal-courts federal-law implied-bias intra-circuit-split juror-bias structural-error structural-errors Whether the implied bias doctrine constitutes clearly established federal law
18-5657 Terence Passmore v. Dan O'Fallon, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juror-bias jury-selection sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-fair-trial Whether the presence of a juror who has expressed a belief that the petitioner is guilty rendered his trial unfair and in violation of the Sixth Amend…