juror-unanimity

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-5633 Mica Alexander Martinez v. Christe Quick, Warden Tenth Circuit 2025-09-15 Denied IFP capital-sentencing due-process ineffective-assistance juror-unanimity prosecutorial-misconduct racial-bias Mica Martinez is a Native American steeped in Comanche culture. Mr. Martinez's defense counsel at trial warned the prosecution of putting on a "wild c…
22-7455 Vernon Lee Wheeler v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-05-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-claim divisibility federal-appeals-court federal-court-of-appeals juror-unanimity means-versus-elements state-law statutory-interpretation Whether a federal court of appeals may declare a crime 'divisible' based on its own interpretation of statutory language if the state's own appellate …
18-5056 Joshua D. Bouziden v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924e armed-career-criminal-act criminal-sentencing divisibility juror-unanimity modified-categorical-approach predicate-conviction prior-conviction sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation Whether a predicate prior conviction under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e), is divisible for purposes of the modified categorical ap…