jury-misconduct
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-5560 | Yancey J. Myers v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-09-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights due-process judicial-bias jury-misconduct structural-error trial-procedure | Whether a disqualified trial judge's recusal due to substantial prejudice constitutes a structural error when the judge previously presided as both ac… |
| 24-7389 | Nathan Ray Foreman v. Texas | Texas | 2025-06-10 | Denied | IFP | appellate-counsel constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-misconduct | Whether the failure of initial appellate counsel to investigate jury misconduct arising from a juror's relationship with a co-defendant constitutes in… |
| 24-6995 | Preston Alton Strong v. Arizona | Arizona | 2025-04-15 | Denied | IFP | burden-of-proof due-process external-evidence judicial-error jury-misconduct trial-procedure | Did the Arizona Supreme Court err by shifting the burden of proof of harm to the defendant after a juror was exposed to inadmissible external evidence… |
| 24-6212 | Raymond Anthony Lewis v. Raul Morales, Acting Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2024-12-30 | Denied | IFP | capital-sentencing death-penalty extraneous-evidence habeas-corpus jury-misconduct religious-bias | Whether post-trial evidence of a jury foreperson introducing extra-record religious evidence during capital sentencing deliberations establishes jury … |
| 24-5906 | John Esposito v. Shawn Emmons, Warden | Georgia | 2024-11-04 | Denied | IFP | capital-punishment constitutional-review due-process habeas-corpus judicial-fact-finding jury-misconduct | Does the Due Process Clause require a more rigorous standard of review for judicial fact-finding beyond Georgia's 'any evidence' standard? |
| 24A216 | Lance Shockley v. David Vandergriff, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2024-08-28 | Presumed Complete | ineffective-assistance juror-bias jury-misconduct right-to-fair-trial sixth-amendment voir-dire | Whether a trial court's refusal to inquire into a juror's potential bias, stemming from a published book with violent vigilante themes, constitutes a … | |
| 23-1249 | Timothy Patrick Guilfoy v. Brandon Watwood, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2024-05-29 | Denied | Response Waived | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus jury-misconduct right-to-confront testimonial-evidence | Whether a DVD recording containing testimonial evidence of the accusers, admitted as an exhibit, but never played during the trial, may be viewed by t… |
| 23-7528 | Aaron Matthew Rentfrow v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-05-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure evidence fair-trial juror-misconduct jury-misconduct prosecutorial-conduct prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-procedure witness-testimony | Whether the district court erred in failing to grant a mistrial |
| 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 |
| 23A514 | David James Lack v. Matthew Rodriguez | Ninth Circuit | 2023-12-06 | Presumed Complete | certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus jury-misconduct ninth-circuit post-conviction-relief pro-se | Whether a federal habeas petitioner is entitled to a certificate of appealability when challenging a state court's denial of post-conviction relief ba… | |
| 23-5926 | Jahvaris Lamoun Springfield v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-10-31 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment jury-misconduct no-impeachment-rule sixth-amendment | Whether there is a constitutional exception to the no-impeachment rule codified in Federal Rule of Evidence 606(b) for instances where there is eviden… |
| 23-5714 | Cuhuatemoc Hinricky Peraita v. Alabama | Alabama | 2023-10-04 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appellate-review evidence-rule juror-misconduct jury-misconduct mattox-v-united-states no-impeachment-rule parker-v-gladden prior-convictions sixth-amendment trial-procedure verdict-challenge | Did the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals depart from this Court's decisions in Mattox v. United States, 146 U.S. 140 (1892) and Parker v. Gladden, 38… |
| 23-5300 | Sandro Ramos v. Chris Rankins | Tenth Circuit | 2023-08-08 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment 6th-amendment brady-violation civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech ineffective-assistance jury-misconduct standing | Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation of the First Amendment's free speech protections |
| 23-5012 | Matthew Nix v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-07-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation juror-misconduct jury-misconduct jury-selection mcdonnell-test mcdonongh-test supreme-court | Whether the multiple interpretations of McDonough's two prong test requires this Court to grant certiorari to provide clarity and avoid disparate resu… |
| 22-5777 | In Re Adib Eddie Ramez Makdessi | 2022-10-06 | Dismissed | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-conviction due-process equal-protection evidence-tampering jury-instructions jury-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct racial-bias | Whether the trial court erred in denying the defendant's Rule 60(b) motion to vacate the conviction based on evidence of prosecutorial misconduct, rac… | |
| 21-1424 | Marjana Hoti v. City of Warren, Michigan | Michigan | 2022-05-05 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (3) | due-process external-influence fair-trial judicial-ethics jury-misconduct jury-tampering prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-procedure | Is it an external influence on the jury when the prosecutor and one of the sitting jurors had prior secret contacts before the trial starts? |
| 21-7370 | Dante Leon Milon v. Tim Hooper, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2022-03-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause due-process fair-trial impartial-jury ineffective-counsel judicial-misconduct jury-misconduct mistrial recusal trial-errors witness-testimony | Question not identified |
| 21-6110 | Richard L. Starghill, II v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-10-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process jury-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct retrial trial-integrity | Do multiple mistrials, necessitated by jury misconduct, create a Double Jeopardy bar, preventing a retrial of a criminal defendant? |
| 21-5890 | Christopher W. Terrell v. Arkansas | Arkansas | 2021-10-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-conviction due-process fair-trial impartiality jury-impartiality jury-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-fairness | Is a criminal conviction unconstitutional and in violation of Due Process when a jury does not remain impartial on the question of guilt for the crime… |
| 20-7031 | Jose Diaz, aka Cano v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-02-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial juror-deliberations juror-misconduct jury jury-instructions jury-misconduct trial-court-inquiry trial-procedure | Should a trial court conduct an inquiry when it learns that jurors have disregarded instructions and discussed the case outside the presence of other … |
| 19-8808 | Randolph Ashford v. Michael Stephan, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2020-06-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process evidence-tampering evidence-withholding ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct trial-counsel | Was the State of South Carolina City of Columbia violate Ashford's 4th, 5th, 6th, and 14th Amendment rights by withholding evidence |
| 19-8765 | Tizazu F. Arega v. Lisa L. Sadler, Judge, et al. | Ohio | 2020-06-19 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-review jury-instructions jury-misconduct legal-sufficiency sexual-intercourse trial-procedure verdict-validity | Was the decision of the Supreme Court of Ohio contrary to clearly established federal law and the Supreme Court of the United States precedent of Cole… |
| 19-8093 | Jose Passalacqua v. Mike McDonald, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2020-03-24 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure jury-misconduct motion-standard ninth-circuit rule-60(b) rule-60b scope-of-hearing successive-petition | Did the Ninth Circuit Erred In Holding That Petitioner's Rule 60(b) Motion, Was the Equivalent to an Unauthorized Second or Successive 28 U.S.C. § 225… |
| 19-7690 | Devell Short v. Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Greensburg, et al. | Third Circuit | 2020-02-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appeal-rights castle-doctrine constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial judicial-misconduct jury jury-contamination jury-misconduct | Whether a miscarriage of justice occurred due to a mistake and breakdown in the judicial operation of the federal courts |
| 19-7583 | Tiffany R. Byrd v. Frederick Boutte, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2020-02-07 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-preservation exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-search juror-bias jury-misconduct law-enforcement procedural-violations search-and-seizure | Whether Tiffany R. Byrd #61935 was entitled to relief on an ineffective assistance of counsel claim based on trial counsel's failure to investigate an… |
| 19-6591 | In Re Kenneth Uncapher | 2019-11-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury jury-bias jury-misconduct mistrial newly-discovered-evidence victim | Was the Petitioner denied a fair trial? | |
| 19-6216 | Maxcium Herring v. L. S. McEwen, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2019-10-09 | Denied | IFP | appeal civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admission jury-instructions jury-misconduct sentencing standard-of-review trial-errors waiver | Whether the trial court erred in allowing the defendant to take the witness stand in his own defense |
| 18-8968 | Emmanuel Mathis v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-04-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability due-process extraneous-communication habeas-corpus judicial-proceeding judicial-review juror-bias jury-misconduct remmer-hearing supervisory-power | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, as… |
| 18-6524 | Brian Thomas, aka O'Brian A. Thomas, aka Thomas A. O'Brian v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-10-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-standard berger-standard berger-v-united-states berger-v-us due-process fair-trial fifth-circuit harmless-error judicial-review jury-bias jury-misconduct procedural-violation prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review | Whether the Fifth Circuit courts violated Berger v US after it conceded that the violations had occurred but deciding that it was 'implausible that it… |
| 18-6351 | Raymond Baker v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-10-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | accomplice-testimony corroboration corroboration-of-accomplice-testimony due-process due-process-rights fair-trial impartial-jury juror-misconduct jury-misconduct post-verdict post-verdict-inquiry | Whether a district court must permit inquiry into alleged juror misconduct |
| 18-143 | Sandra Lee Bart v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-07-31 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | appellate-review conspiracy conspiracy-conviction due-process evidence evidentiary-hearing fair-trial government-witness juror-misconduct jury-misconduct precedent sixth-amendment substantial-evidence | Did the Eighth Circuit fail to follow its own precedent and rule contrary to other Appellate Circuits and the United States Supreme Court when it appr… |
| 18-5218 | Allen Robertson, Jr. v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2018-07-12 | Denied | IFP | atkins-v-virginia criminal-behavior death-penalty eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-cruel-and-unusual-punishment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability jury-misconduct moore-v-texas racial-bias sixth-amendment | Whether the Louisiana state courts improperly considered Petitioner's criminal behavior in determining that he is not intellectually disabled, in viol… |