| 24-6886 |
Jonathan Lynn Jenkins v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-03-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review confession-admissibility criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence harmless-error jury-role |
Whether an appellate court improperly displaces the jury's role to determine guilt by assuming error occurred when the district court improperly admit… |
| 23-6829 |
Edward Joseph Parson v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-abuse child-sexual-abuse credibility evidence-rule-702 expert-testimony jury-determination jury-role prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-evidence witness-credibility |
Whether expert testimony that an alleged child victim's inconsistent reporting of abuse is consistent with truthfulness is admissible under Federal Ru… |
| 20-6043 |
Robin Lee Archer v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-10-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-role retroactivity statutory-construction substantive-criminal-law substantive-law |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court's statutory construction in Hurst v. State constitutes substantive law |
| 18-7189 |
George Leslie Manlove v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights credibility due-process fact-finding fair-trial jury-role leading-questions prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-jury witness-credibility |
Was petitioner denied his constitutional rights, including his right to a fair trial, because the prosecutor's calculated, sustained, and improper use… |
| 18-6901 |
Enoch D. Hall v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-12-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
advisory-panel aggravating-circumstances Caldwell-v-Mississippi civil-rights constitutional-due-process death-penalty due-process harmless-error hurst-decision jury-instructions jury-role jury-sentencing sentencing sentencing-process unanimous-recommendation |
Whether the Hurst error is harmless given the jury's diminished sense of responsibility as an advisory panel, resulting in a Caldwell v. Mississippi e… |
| 18-6882 |
Willie Seth Crain, Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-11-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
remedies prior constitutional defects in capital which requires unanimous jury findings of aggrava advisory-sentencing-panel aggravating-circumstances caldwell-v-mississippi capital-sentencing civil-rights constitutional-error death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing due-process harmless-error Hurst-decision hurst-v-florida jury-instructions jury-role jury-unanimity mitigating-circumstances sentencing sentencing-procedure |
Whether the Hurst error is harmless in light of the jury's diminished sense of responsibility as an advisory panel under Caldwell v. Mississippi |
| 18-6327 |
Rolando Humphrey v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3553a criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing judicial-determination judicial-discretion jury-role jury-trial sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-18-usc-3553 statutory-minimum |
Whether district courts may determine without the aid of a jury that a sentence above the statutory minimum is 'not greater than necessary' to achieve… |
| 18-5081 |
Alvin Leroy Morton v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-07-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
binding-precedent capital-sentencing criminal-procedure death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing federal-constitutional-rights judicial-discretion jury-instructions jury-responsibility jury-role sentencing-procedure structural-error unanimous-verdict |
Whether structural error occurs when the jury fails to return a verdict as to multiple critical elements necessary to impose the death penalty |