jury-deliberation
21 cases — ← All topics
| 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 |