jury-deliberation

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-5996 Jean-Michael Kisi v. Joseph Joyce, Warden Eighth Circuit 2025-10-30 Denied IFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-deliberation sixth-amendment I. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT EXCLUDING THE PETITIONER FROM THE COURTROOM WHEN PERSONS DISPLAYED THE STATE 'S LAPTOP IN THE DELIBERATION ROOM AND A …
25-5252 Eric David Marrufo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights evidence-admissibility harmless-error jury-deliberation jury-impartiality rule-606b A. Whether the Petitioner was denied his constitutional right to an impartial jury and to a fair trial when the District Court: a. After denying the …
23-7313 Jason Dale Kechego v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone-use external-influence jury-deliberation jury-impasse jury-misconduct partial-verdict Remmer-hearing Supreme-Court-Rule-14 verdict-procedure Whether a district court must hold a Remmer hearing when a juror indicates that other jurors are using cell phones and meeting in a second room
23A672 Samuel Fields v. Scott Jordan, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-01-22 Presumed Complete confrontation-clause constitutional-violation extrinsic-evidence habeas-relief jury-deliberation sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment's Confrontation Clause prohibits a jury from considering extrinsic evidence against a criminal defendant without providing…
23-5038 Kurt Michaels v. Ron Davis, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-07-05 Denied Relisted (13)IFP aggravating-evidence appellate-review capital-case confession confession-evidence cumulative-error harmless-error harmless-error-analysis jury-deliberation jury-deliberations ninth-circuit-review Whether a court reviewing a cold record in a capital case may determine that the effect of an erroneously admitted confession and other improper aggra…
22-7557 Germaine Coulter, Sr., aka Slim v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fair-trial hearsay-testimony juror-coercion jury-coercion jury-deliberation jury-deliberations prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Whether Mr. Coulter's Sixth Amendment rights were violated
21-6668 Shane Patrick Sprague v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP animal-welfare-act conspiracy due-process eleventh-circuit evidence-sufficiency insufficient-evidence jury-deliberation jury-deliberations supervisory-jurisdiction Whether the evidence was sufficient to support a conviction of conspiracy to violate the Animal Welfare Act
21-5327 Mark Anthony Gonzalez v. Texas Texas 2021-08-09 Denied IFP criminal-procedure juror-substitution jury-deliberation jury-trial sixth-amendment structural-error trial-procedure unanimous-verdict Whether a trial court's failure to instruct a reconstituted jury to deliberate anew after a juror substitution violates the Sixth Amendment right to a…
21-114 John A. Clifford v. New York New York 2021-07-28 Denied Response Waived 2nd-amendment appellate-review civil-immunity civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-civil-case jury-deliberation second-amendment standing witness-testimony Does the 2nd Amendment apply here?
20-1663 Matthew D. Norwood v. United States Armed Forces 2021-05-28 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure evidence evidence-rule forensic-interview hearsay hearsay-exception jury-deliberation prior-consistent-statement repetition trial-procedure truth-effect witness-testimony Whether admission of a recorded hearsay statement as a physical exhibit, permitted to be reviewed during deliberations, is a fair application of the e…
20-8093 Martin James Kipp v. Ron Broomfield, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-05-20 Denied IFP bible-reading biblical-reference capital-punishment capital-trial constitutional-rights external-influence habeas-corpus jury-deliberation jury-deliberations mattox-v-united-states presumed-prejudice remmer-v-united-states Whether clearly established federal law requires that a habeas petitioner's claim that his constitutional rights were violated because a juror read pa…
20-7861 Razhden Shulaya v. United States Second Circuit 2021-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP allen-charge civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jury-coercion jury-deliberation jury-deliberations jury-instructions right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Should a District Court issue an Allen charge when a jury bullies a holdout juror?
20-5177 Rolando Felix-Carrazco v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency holdout-juror judicial-inquiry judicial-interference juror-dismissal jury-deliberation jury-deliberations scotus-guidance trial-court-discretion Whether repeated questioning of jurors about a holdout juror violates Brasfield v. United States
19-468 Keesha Elayne Frye v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-10-09 Denied Response Waived appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process indictment indictment-redaction jury jury-deliberation jury-instructions meaningful-review redaction standard-of-review Whether the criminal defendant was denied meaningful appellate review when the district court destroyed the only copy of a redacted indictment used by…
18-9836 Dwight Brown v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP allen-charge coercion coercive-instruction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion jury-deliberation jury-deliberations mistrial verdict-review Whether the district court erred or abused its discretion in reversing or rescinding its grant of mistrial
18-9738 Francisco Gonzalez Jose v. United States Third Circuit 2019-06-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP alternate-juror criminal-procedure deliberations due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-interpretation jury jury-deliberation jury-instructions mistrial third-circuit united-states-v-sotelo When a juror cannot continue deliberations and an alternate juror is empaneled, does the Third Circuit's decision in United States v. Sotelo conflict …
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 Does the use of a prosecutor's stipulation that a cooperating witness is testifying truthfully violate the constitutional guarantees of a fair trial, …
18-8944 Timmy W. Doucet v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury-deliberation jury-deliberations louisiana-criminal-code reasonable-doubt reversible-error sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence Whether reasonable jurists determine that it was reversible error for the district court to permit the jury, over defense counsel's objections, to vie…
18-8232 Jesus Rosales v. Texas Texas 2019-03-04 Denied IFP 6th-amendment allen-charge coercion criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jury-deliberation jury-instruction jury-instructions trial-procedure At what point should a court grant defense's request for an Allen charge, so that the lack of one, in itself, does not become coercive?
18-7479 Farrell Haycraft v. Indiana Indiana 2019-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion jury-deliberation jury-instructions mistrial trial-court-error verdict verdict-modification Did the Trial Court Err when it order the jurors to redeliberate after it reach a verdict of guilty and not guilty on all counts?
18-6683 Cody Sakoman v. California California 2018-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure jury jury-deliberation readback sixth-amendment witness-testimony Whether a defendant was denied his rights to a fair trial and to due process of law under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments