| 25-6807 |
Edward Legaspi Ramirez v. California |
California |
2026-02-13 |
Pending |
IFP |
accommodation-syndrome child-sexual-abuse constitutional-rights expert-testimony jury-prejudice witness-credibility |
Whether the admission of expert testimony on Child Sexual Abuse Accommodation Syndrome (CSAAS) violated the Petitioner's constitutional rights by prej… |
| 25-6812 |
Himen Ross v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2026-02-13 |
Pending |
IFP |
constitutional-fairness criminal-trial district-court-discretion gang-evidence jury-prejudice mistrial-motion |
Whether the district court abused its discretion by allowing prejudicial gang-related evidence and failing to grant a mistrial, thereby violating the … |
| 25-6082 |
Karl Roseboro v. Melissa Hainsworth, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Laurel Highlands, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adversarial-testing curative-instruction due-process ineffective-assistance jury-prejudice strickland-standard |
Whether a curative instruction was improperly denied when rumors of murder involvement were introduced without counsel objection, and whether the Supr… |
| 24-947 |
Chanel Wiley v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-03-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights court-precedent criminal-procedure jury-prejudice ninth-circuit physical-restraints |
Whether a criminal defendant whose government imposed restraint is perceptible to a jury must show actual prejudice, or whether prejudice inheres |
| 24-5047 |
Pedro Terrazas v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2024-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-counsel constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-prejudice jury-selection plain-error rule-431b trial-court-error |
was-defendant-prejudiced-and-denied-his-constitutional-right-to-the-effective-assistance-of-appellate-counsel |
| 23-1186 |
Rodney Thomas Ternovsky v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-05-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
consent due-process evidence-admissibility fair-trial Fourteenth-Amendment irrelevant-evidence jury-prejudice prejudicial-evidence trial-procedure |
Whether the Petitioner's Fourteenth-Amendment-due-process-right-to-a-fair-trial-was-violated |
| 21-7224 |
Johnathan I. Alcegaire v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-02-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-case capital-punishment due-process false-evidence false-testimony giglio giglio-claim jury-instructions jury-prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court ignored fundamental principles of due process in rejecting the petitioner's Giglio claim and whether there is a reas… |
| 21-6486 |
Gary Green v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review jury-bias jury-prejudice shackling statutory-interpretation |
Whether the state court's finding that the defendant was not prejudiced by being shackled in front of the jury, despite juror testimony that they saw … |
| 20-8353 |
Russell Armfield v. Sonja Nicklaus, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-06-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
bruton-rule bruton-violation civil-rights constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions jury-prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct strickland-claim |
Whether the lack of established federal law or precedent should preclude relief for a defendant when there is no clear constitutional violation |
| 19-8800 |
Justice Jerrell Knight v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2020-06-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jury-prejudice prejudicial-evidence racial-bias sentencing |
Whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments are violated when the State introduces irrelevant evidence at the guilt phase alleging the defendant poses… |
| 19-8222 |
Steven Mason v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2020-04-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady brady-violation criminal-procedure disclosure due-process exculpatory exculpatory-evidence impeachment jury-prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct severance trial-severance |
Whether the lower courts erred in finding that the Government's late disclosure of exculpatory and impeaching information did not prejudice the defend… |
| 19-5462 |
Wayne Pettaway v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion |
Third Circuit |
2019-08-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-prejudice magistrate-bias |
Was there grounds for a lawful warrant for my arrest? |
| 18-8573 |
Early A. Atterberry v. John Varga, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-03-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure-rule-52b due-process equal-protection fair-trial harmless-error jury-prejudice new-trial other-crimes-evidence rule-52b standing |
Whether the Court erred in properly applying Rule 52(b) to the issue of Harmless Error raised by the petitioner during the numerous appeals pursued |
| 18-8490 |
Bernard Mitchell v. California |
California |
2019-03-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-street-gangs discretion due-process evidence gang-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-exposure jury-instructions jury-prejudice prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-discretion standard-of-review |
Did the court abuse its discretion in permitting the jury to be exposed to the nicknames 'Crip' and ''Scrap,' which have been taken as a suggestion th… |
| 18-574 |
Joseph Rachal v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-11-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
6th-amendment bifurcated-trial bifurcation criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility felon-in-possession felony-conviction firearm-possession jury-instructions jury-prejudice prejudice prejudicial-evidence |
Is it unduly prejudicial for a jury to be exposed to the toxic evidence that the defendant is a convicted felon before even determining whether the de… |