jury-note

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-6979 Gregory Hearns v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP district-court evidence-admission government-duty judicial-responsibility jury-instruction jury-note When a jury note indicates a factual misunderstanding concerning a key piece of evidence admitted by the government, do the government and the distric…
21-7830 Daniel Paul Starr v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma Tenth Circuit 2022-05-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-communication judicial-misconduct jury-instructions jury-note jury-unanimity trial-conduct Whether the trial court erred in allowing the jury to convict the defendant on a lesser charge (misdemeanor) despite the indictment for a felony charg…
20-8424 James Erik Godiksen v. United States Second Circuit 2021-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure expert-testimony harmless-error judicial-discretion jury-instructions jury-note prejudice trial-procedure Did the Court of Appeals improperly conclude that the District Court's mishandling of a jury note and replaying only a portion of the defense expert's…