jury-deadlock
5 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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… |
| 25A308 | Ynddy Blanc v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-09-17 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review circuit-court conviction-standard criminal-trial jury-deadlock mistrial | Whether the Eleventh Circuit correctly applied legal standards in affirming a criminal conviction following a second trial after a prior mistrial | |
| 21-5303 | William Pruitt v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-08-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | allen-charge burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process judicial-error judicial-instruction jury-coercion jury-deadlock jury-instructions retrial trial-procedure | Whether the appeals court erred in affirming the use of its pattern modified 'Allen' charge with a deadlocked jury |
| 19-5643 | Raymont Wright v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-08-20 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | double-jeopardy indictment-dismissal inherent-power inherent-power-of-courts judicial-integrity jury-deadlock mistrials prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct separation-of-powers trial-court-discretion trial-court-power | Whether a trial court possesses inherent power to dismiss an indictment with prejudice following serial mistrials for jury deadlock or whether the exe… |
| 18-6880 | Jason A. Lenz v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-11-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | accidental-death character-evidence civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process expert-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-deadlock standing statutory-interpretation | Should a certificate of appealability issue in a Section 2254 proceeding |