juror-impartiality

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-7063 Randy W. Duck v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2025-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP eighth-circuit ineffective-assistance juror-impartiality jury-bias prosecutorial-bias trial-counsel Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in deferring to lower court findings regarding trial counsel's failure to remove a potentially biased juror who serve…
23A1149 James W. Johnson v. United States Third Circuit 2024-06-25 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights criminal-procedure juror-impartiality jury-selection racial-bias voir-dire Whether a prospective juror's acknowledgment of implicit racial bias and commitment to consciously guard against its influence constitutes grounds for…
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
21-1090 James Calvert v. Texas Texas 2022-02-07 Denied capital-trial constitutional-error due-process ineffective-assistance juror-impartiality postconviction-proceedings postconviction-relief presumption-of-innocence shock-cuff state-appeal Where a state's highest criminal court finds constitutional error but holds the record on direct appeal is insufficient to require reversal, does due …
21-6505 Bryan Bostick v. United States District of Columbia 2021-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights juror-impartiality jury-bias remmer severance sixth-amendment trial-court voir-dire Was appellant deprived of a meaningful opportunity to demonstrate jury bias after his Sixth Amendment safeguards were violated when the trial court de…
20-5615 Michael Gordon v. United States First Circuit 2020-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-prosecution juror-impartiality jury-impartiality jury-selection marijuana-legalization marijuana-prosecution voir-dire When empaneling a jury for a federal marijuana prosecution in a state where marijuana is legal, must the voir dire be more keenly focused on whether a…
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…
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 trial counsel rendered ineffective assistance under the 6th Amendment