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25-938 James Garfield Broadnax v. Texas Texas 2026-02-06 Pending batson-violation constitutional-law equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-strikes race-discrimination Whether the State's consideration of race in striking prospective Black jurors violated the Equal Protection Clause under Batson v. Kentucky
25-6700 Aita Gurung v. Vermont Vermont 2026-02-03 Pending Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights jury-selection peremptory-challenges public-trial sixth-amendment waller-standard Whether the Sixth Amendment's public trial guarantee applies to the cause and peremptory challenges phase of jury selection or may the court exclude t…
25-6642 Jimmy ONeal Spencer v. Alabama Alabama 2026-01-22 Pending IFP due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-selection pretrial-publicity sixth-amendment venue-change Whether a trial court's refusal to change venue in a capital case with extensive prejudicial pretrial publicity violates due process and the defendant…
25-6631 Juan Jose Zarate Sanchez v. Texas Texas 2026-01-20 Pending IFP criminal-procedure due-process impartial-jury jury-selection sixth-amendment voir-dire Whether due process and the Sixth Amendment right to an impartial jury are violated when the prosecution conducts panel-wide voir dire using improper …
25-6626 Terrance Carew v. Robert Morton, Superintendent, Downstate Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2026-01-20 Pending IFP batson-challenge constitutional-rights equal-protection ineffective-assistance jury-selection racial-discrimination Whether an attorney has necessarily provided ineffective assistance of counsel when, after making successful Batson claims, he fails to insist on a re…
25A718 Tony Terrell Clark v. Mississippi Mississippi 2025-12-18 Application batson-challenge constitutional-review ineffective-assistance jury-selection racial-discrimination strickland-standard Whether the Mississippi Supreme Court may apply an impossible standard of prejudice in reviewing ineffective assistance of counsel claims related to B…
25-658 Matthew Jones, et al. v. Amber M. King, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-12-08 Pending administrative-acts civil-rights due-process judicial-immunity jury-selection political-retaliation Whether a justice of the peace's administrative acts in ordering wrongful arrests of political rivals are shielded by absolute judicial immunity
25-6279 Steven Matthew Wolf v. Florida Florida 2025-12-03 Denied IFP capital-punishment death-penalty fourteenth-amendment juror-bias jury-selection sixth-amendment Whether Mr. Wolf was deprived of a jury of his peers as guaranteed by the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments where the trial court removed a juror who pr…
25-6185 John Pearl Smith, II v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP distinctive-groups duren-test fair-cross-section jury-selection sixth-amendment systematic-exclusion Is the Sixth Amendment right to a jury that represents a fair cross-section of the community violated where a defendant identifies a specific systemat…
25A510 Terrance Carew v. Robert Morton Second Circuit 2025-11-04 Application batson-violation fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-selection racial-discrimination sixth-amendment Whether a criminal defense attorney's failure to demand a remedy for a proven Batson violation constitutes ineffective assistance of counsel when raci…
25-5789 Joseph Anthony Barrett v. California California 2025-10-02 Denied IFP criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment implicit-bias juror-bias jury-selection sixth-amendment When a charged crime occurs within prison walls, do the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments require excusal for cause of prospective jurors who are employ…
25-5665 Ali Awad Mahmoud Irsan v. Texas Texas 2025-09-17 Denied Amici (1)IFP constitutional-rights equal-protection judicial-discretion jury-selection race-discrimination voir-dire Does the knowing judicial enforcement of defense counsel's explicitly race-based agreement to exclude a Black woman from the venire violate the Equal …
25-5469 Bryan Christopher Bell v. North Carolina North Carolina 2025-08-26 Denied Amici (5)IFP batson-challenge equal-protection gender-discrimination jury-selection postconviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the North Carolina Supreme Court improperly barred relief in a Batson challenge involving gender-based jury discrimination
25A19 Adrian Goudelock v. United States Second Circuit 2025-07-08 Presumed Complete appellate-review criminal-procedure jury-selection party-presentation prosecutorial-theory wholesale-exclusion Whether a federal appellate court may affirm a criminal conviction based on alternative legal theories not presented by the government or raised at tr…
24-7483 DeAngelo Zieglar v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2025-06-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP caldwell-precedent capital-punishment constitutional-procedure death-penalty jury-selection moratorium-impact In light of Caldwell v. Mississippi, 472 U.S. 320 (1985), where a state has instituted an indefinite and formal moratorium on the death penalty, wheth…
24A1272 Benito M. Valdez v. United States District of Columbia 2025-06-23 Presumed Complete first-amendment husher jury-selection public-trial sixth-amendment voir-dire Whether the use of a white-noise machine during voir dire, without specific privacy concerns, violates a defendant's constitutional right to a public …
24-7422 In Re Jerome Eric Bivens 2025-06-13 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-conviction due-process judicial-error jury-selection trial-procedure Does an illegally empaneled jury void a criminal conviction and/or mandate a new trial
24-1156 Maninder Singh, Individually and as Heir of the Estate of Jasvir Kaur, Kewal Singh, and Nirbhai Singh, et al. v. Nissan Motor Company, LTD., et al. Nevada 2025-05-12 Denied Response Waived batson-challenge harmless-error jury-selection peremptory-challenge racial-discrimination voir-dire Whether discrimination against a potential alternate juror requires reversal without a showing of prejudice, or whether courts can review such claims …
24-7050 Juan Carlos Sotelo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process judicial-discretion juror-dismissal jury-selection legal-standard trial-procedure Whether the standard for dismissing a juror based on views on the merits of the case is a 'demonstrable reality', 'any possibility', 'any reasonable p…
24-6698 Joseph Smith v. United States District of Columbia 2025-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-challenge cross-section-challenge duren-test fourth-amendment jury-selection systemic-exclusion What is the proper test to determine a cross-section challenge under the Duren second prong, and how to resolve if intertwined within the 'systemic ex…
24-6644 Lola Shalewa Barbara Kasali v. United States Fifth Circuit 2025-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-presence jury-selection legal-jurisdiction trial-in-absentia Whether the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure 43, case law, and the United States Constitution permit the trial in absentia of a defendant who is no…
24-6578 Donald Lee Billings v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2025-02-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights equal-protection fair-cross-section fourteenth-amendment jury-selection systematic-exclusion Whether courts can establish a clear methodology for assessing fair representation of distinctive groups in jury selection and what constitutes system…
24-6549 Jesse Guardado v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-12 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability eleventh-circuit ineffective-assistance jury-selection martinez-rule strickland-standard Whether the Eleventh Circuit's analysis of ineffective assistance of counsel during jury selection violated Strickland v. Washington standards and whe…
24-6414 Albert Pinedo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP bias criminal-procedure impartiality jury-selection sixth-amendment voir-dire Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a prospective juror to make an unequivocal commitment to impartiality after revealing their actual bias
24-774 Reginald Keith Clark v. Colorado Colorado 2025-01-22 Denied Amici (2)Response WaivedRelisted (2) for-cause-challenge fourteenth-amendment jury-selection racial-bias sixth-amendment trial-court-discretion Whether a trial court violates a defendant's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights when it erroneously denies a for-cause challenge to a racially bias…
24-6189 Maurice Duncan Burks v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge due-process jury-selection peremptory-strike racial-bias voir-dire Whether the government's peremptory strike of a black female juror through a deliberately confusing question violates Batson v. Kentucky and whether f…
24-627 Scuderia Development, LLC, et al. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-12-09 Denied Response Waived court-procedure ethnic-discrimination fair-trial jury-selection racial-bias voir-dire Whether the district court's refusal to ask defense-requested voir dire questions about potential anti-Asian and Chinese bias denied Petitioners a fai…
24A490 Reginald Keith Clark v. Colorado Colorado 2024-11-15 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights equal-protection fair-trial jury-selection peremptory-challenge racial-bias Whether the denial of a defendant's challenge for cause to a prospective juror who openly expresses racial bias against the defendant constitutes stru…
24-5953 Ellva Slaughter v. United States Second Circuit 2024-11-12 Denied IFP circuit-split cross-section-representation discriminatory-intent jury-selection sixth-amendment systematic-exclusion Whether Duren's 'systematic exclusion' prong can be satisfied by proof of consistent underrepresentation or requires evidence of specific discriminato…
24A448 Christopher Michael Montoya v. Arizona Arizona 2024-11-05 Presumed Complete capital-case for-cause-strike fourteenth-amendment jury-selection sixth-amendment witherspoon-standard Whether the Arizona Supreme Court improperly applied precedent in denying a for-cause challenge to a biased juror in a capital case, thereby violating…
24-5874 Alonzo Cortez Johnson v. William "Chris" Rankins, Warden Tenth Circuit 2024-10-31 Denied IFP batson-challenge habeas-corpus jury-selection procedural-defense racial-discrimination tenth-circuit-ruling Does Jennings v. Stephens permit raising procedural defenses on remand after a Batson challenge in a criminal jury selection case?
24-5792 Mark A. Whitworth v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure for-cause-strike judicial-discretion jury-selection trial-fairness venireperson-bias Should a criminal defendant be required to prove prejudice when a federal district court erroneously strikes a potential juror for cause based on her …
24-5668 Richard Bernard Moore v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections South Carolina 2024-09-30 Denied IFP batson-challenge equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination voir-dire Whether the Supreme Court of South Carolina failed to apply the Batson factors in determining racial discrimination in jury selection when empaneling …
24-5659 Luis Angel Cruz-Cruz v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-09-30 Denied IFP batson-challenge constitutional-law gender-bias jury-selection peremptory-strike racial-discrimination Whether expressly citing race or gender as a reason for a peremptory strike means the strike was motivated by discriminatory intent under Batson v. Ke…
24-5612 Prosecuting Attorney, 21st Judicial Circuit, ex rel. Marcellus Williams v. Missouri Missouri 2024-09-23 Denied Amici (1)IFP capital-punishment constitutional-error due-process jury-selection prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination Whether due process requires reversal when a prosecutor concedes constitutional errors in a capital conviction and no longer seeks to defend the case
24-5591 Guy Benjamin Bowman v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP jury-selection peremptory-strikes racial-bias structural-error trial-procedure voir-dire Whether the trial court's refusal to ask voir dire questions on racial bias, deprivation of venire information, and usurpation of peremptory strikes c…
24A251 Darryl Carter, et al. v. James E. Stewart, Sr., in his Official Capacity as District Attorney of Caddo Parish, Louisiana Fifth Circuit 2024-09-10 Presumed Complete civil-rights fourteenth-amendment jury-selection peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination summary-judgment Whether the Fourteenth Amendment permits civil rights lawsuits by prospective jurors challenging racially-motivated peremptory challenges when statist…
24A194 Hector Acosta v. Texas Texas 2024-08-22 Presumed Complete capital-murder death-sentence equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-selection racial-bias Whether racial bias in the jury selection process violated the defendant's Fourteenth Amendment right to equal protection in a capital murder case
24A185 Derek Don Posey v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-08-19 Presumed Complete capital-punishment eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-selection sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments were violated by the improper dismissal of prospective jurors and whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendm…
24-5227 James W. Johnson v. United States Third Circuit 2024-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process impartial-jury impartiality jury-selection peremptory-challenge racial-bias sixth-amendment Whether a criminal defendant is denied his Due Process and Sixth Amendment right to an impartial jury when the trial court determines that a potential…
24-5169 Jeremy David Spielbauer v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-07-30 Denied IFP challenges-for-cause constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection media-coverage trial-procedure use-immunity venue Question not identified.
24-5173 Sir Mario Owens v. Colorado Colorado 2024-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky criminal-justice-system driving-while-black equal-protection juror-bias jury-selection peremptory-strike peremptory-strikes race-neutral race-neutral-justification racial-discrimination Whether expressly linking a black juror's remark in a jury questionnaire indicating that he had an 'unpleasant experience' with police (namely, 'drivi…
24-5160 Duane Leo Ehmer, Darryl William Thorn, and Jake Ryan v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-07-29 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution ex-parte jury-selection jury-trial petty-offenses presley-v-georgia sixth-amendment structural-error sua-sponte Whether the district court's sua sponte, ex parte, and case-specific excusal of trial jurors for cause constituted reversible structural error?
24-5162 Johnny Ho v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fair-trial impartial-jury judicial-discretion jury-selection peremptory-challenges sixth-amendment voir-dire Defendant's right to a fair trial by impartial jury
24-5072 Juan Rangel-Rubio v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge equal-protection juror-discrimination jury-selection peremptory-strike race-neutral-reasons voir-dire Did the district courts err in denying Mr. Rangel-Rubio's Batson challenge to the government's peremptory strike of juror number 31?
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
23A1149 James W. Johnson v. United States Third Circuit 2024-06-25 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights criminal-procedure juror-impartiality jury-selection racial-bias voir-dire Whether a prospective juror's acknowledgment of implicit racial bias and commitment to consciously guard against its influence constitutes grounds for…
23-7765 Leon Davis, Jr. v. Florida, et al. Florida 2024-06-20 Denied IFP capital-punishment cumulative-error death-penalty ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection prosecutorial-discretion strickland-prejudice strickland-standard Counsel's-failure-to-object-to-trial-court's-comments-during-jury-selection
23-7724 In Re Shomas T. Winston 2024-06-14 Denied IFP evidentiary-hearing fair-trial fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury juror-misconduct jury-selection sixth-amendment voir-dire Whether a petitioner should be denied an evidentiary hearing to question a juror who failed to disclose information
23-7716 Donte Solomon v. Robert St. Andre, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP alcohol-and-drugs constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process heat-of-passion jealousy judicial-review jury-instructions jury-selection legal-challenge mental-state provocation Question not identified
23-7674 Eric Wright v. Kris Mayes, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky constitutional-law due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus jury-selection racial-discrimination Did the court of appeals' refusal to grant Mr. Wright habeas corpus relief in respect to his claim of unlawful racial discrimination in the selection …
23-1267 David W. Murphy, Individually and as Personal Representative for the Estate of Kathleen J. Murphy v. Medical Oncology Associates, P.S., et al. Washington 2024-06-04 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-selection medical-negligence patient-relationship patient-treatment standing voir-dire Whether the plaintiffs Fourteenth Amendment right to due process was violated by seating a juror whose brother had been successfully treated by, and w…
23-7499 Russell William Tucker v. North Carolina North Carolina 2024-05-17 Denied IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky burden-of-proof disparate-treatment equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-strikes prima-facie-case prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination Whether the Supreme Court of North Carolina was free to reject evidence of disparate treatment and impose on Petitioner the crippling burden of showin…
23-7409 Fernando Ramirez v. New York New York 2024-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-right criminal-procedure demeanor-observation due-process fair-trial impartiality jury-selection right-to-counsel sixth-amendment voir-dire Whether the Constitution requires that a defendant have a simultaneous, unobstructed view of a prospective juror's facial expression to observe their …
23-7356 Jonathan Burnett v. Georgia Georgia 2024-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-molestation crime-victims criminal-procedure criminal-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection voir-dire Whether trial counsel's failure during voir dire in a child molestation case to explore and investigate whether jurors had been crime victims (directl…
23-7316 David James Lack v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California Ninth Circuit 2024-04-26 Denied IFP case-document civil-rights court-filing due-process judicial-process juror-misconduct jury-selection legal-document new-trial petition prosecutorial-misconduct related-cases Whether a juror who concealed material information during voir dire should be disqualified from serving on a jury, and whether a juror's improper cond…
23-7167 Joseph Lochuch Ewalan v. Washington Washington 2024-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination standing Whether the defendant has been denied the right to trial by an impartial jury when racial discrimination in jury selection compromises the right of tr…
23A806 Russell William Tucker v. North Carolina North Carolina 2024-03-01 Presumed Complete batson-challenge death-penalty equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination Whether the prosecution's peremptory jury strikes of African American jurors violated the Equal Protection Clause under Batson v. Kentucky, given evid…
23-6804 Jonathan Douglas Richardson v. North Carolina North Carolina 2024-02-21 Denied IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky constitutional-rights flowers-v-mississippi jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes prosecutorial-misconduct racial-animus racial-discrimination Whether the Supreme Court of North Carolina violated this Court's clear precedent when it held that trial judges have 'broad discretion' to refuse to …
23-6648 Anthony Christopher Mendonca v. United States Second Circuit 2024-02-01 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial first-amendment jury-selection plain-error-review public-trial public-trial-right sixth-amendment structural-error Does the plainly erroneous exclusion of the public from jury selection in a criminal trial seriously affect the fairness, integrity, and public reputa…
23-6605 In Re Darius Lake 2024-01-29 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection judicial-review jury-selection legal-procedure precedent racial-discrimination sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Whether the district attorney's striking of the only Black juror in the petitioner's trial violated the petitioner's constitutional rights
23-6534 Lucious M. Jackson v. Florida Florida 2024-01-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fraud jury-selection peremptory-strike racial-discrimination scotus Whether the state court's disregard of a Officer of the Court Reliance on FRAUD to Justify A Discriminatory Jury Strike Contradicts the Holding of the…
23A588 Justin Willis v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-27 Presumed Complete constitutional-right habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-selection peremptory-challenges strickland-standard Whether trial counsel's failure to object to a limitation on peremptory challenges constitutes ineffective assistance of counsel under the Strickland …
23A569 Stephen Elliot Powers v. Mississippi Mississippi 2023-12-21 Presumed Complete batson-challenge constitutional-law ineffective-assistance jury-selection racial-discrimination strickland-standard Whether a state supreme court can impose an impermissibly high standard of prejudice review that effectively nullifies the constitutional protections …
23-668 Warren King v. Shawn Emmons, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-20 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (13) 28-usc-2254 batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky equal-protection federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-determination jury-selection racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review Whether the Georgia Supreme Court's decision was based on an unreasonable determination of the facts
23A515 Jonathan Douglas Richardson v. North Carolina North Carolina 2023-12-06 Presumed Complete batson-challenge equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-selection peremptory-challenge racial-discrimination Whether the use of a peremptory challenge to remove a Black woman from a jury panel violates the Equal Protection Clause under Batson v. Kentucky and …
23-6075 William Phillip Neidinger v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-remedy constitutional-interpretation due-process effective-counsel identity-rights judicial-defect judicial-review jury-selection mandamus presumption-of-innocence selective-prosecution Is not having actual availability of effective counsel and actual presumption of innocence, particularly in cases deriving from previous judicial defe…
23-5992 In Re John Bailey 2023-11-13 Denied Relisted (3)IFP constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection habitual-offender judicial-discretion jury-selection legal-interpretation sentencing state-law trial-procedure unconstitutional Question not identified
23-471 Casey A. McWhorter v. Alabama Alabama 2023-11-03 Denied 8th-amendment age-discrimination capital-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection jury-selection juvenile-justice Does Alabama's exclusion of 18-year-olds from jury service, coupled with its permitting them to be tried as adults, deny 18-year-old defendants their …
23-5890 Jerry Smith v. Alabama Alabama 2023-10-26 Denied IFP ake-v-oklahoma capital-punishment capital-trials due-process fourteenth-amendment indigent-defendants indigent-defense jury-selection mitigation-experts racial-discrimination Whether Ake v. Oklahoma and the Fourteenth Amendment's due process guarantee require courts to provide funds for prison mitigation experts to indigent…
23-5710 Darryl Burghardt v. Tammy L. Campbell, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge civil-rights due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance jury-selection peremptory-strike racial-discrimination Whether Petitioner Darryl Burghardt's trial counsel performed deficiently by refusing to raise, and thereby waiving, a meritorious Batson objection
23-5682 Dillion Gage Compton v. Texas Texas 2023-10-02 Denied Relisted (10)IFP constitutional-law disparate-treatment equal-protection gender-discrimination jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes side-by-side-analysis trial-procedure Whether a court's comparison of generalizations about all the female prospective jurors who were struck by the prosecution with generalizations about …
23-5659 Cedric Theodis Hobbs, Jr. v. North Carolina North Carolina 2023-09-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky comparative-juror-analysis constitutional-rights equal-protection jury-selection post-hoc-justifications racial-discrimination voir-dire Whether a court conducting a comparative juror analysis can consider 'favorable characteristics' in otherwise comparable jurors when those characteris…
23-5618 Gustavo Tijerina Sandoval v. Texas Texas 2023-09-20 Denied Relisted (10)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process jury-empanelment jury-selection lower-court-split trial-procedure When does jury empanelment begin for purposes of the due process right to be present?
23-248 James Garfield Broadnax v. Texas Texas 2023-09-14 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (9) batson-challenge batson-violations black-defendant capital-case equal-protection habeas-corpus jury-selection prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination white-victims Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals' decision that Mr. Broadnax failed to establish a prima facie equal protection claim conflicts with this C…
23-203 Missouri Department of Corrections v. Jean Finney Missouri 2023-09-05 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (9) batson-challenge civil-rights equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-selection religious-beliefs religious-discrimination structural-error voir-dire Whether the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits relying on stereotypes about religious views to strike jurors
23-5089 Garland Bernell Harper v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-07-13 Denied IFP batson batson-challenge certificate-of-appealability equal-protection fifth-circuit habeas ineffective-assistance jury-selection peremptory-strike race-discrimination Does the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals' methodology for evaluating a prosecutor's facially race-neutral reasons for purposeful discrimination violate…
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…
23-5023 Kirby R. Thomas v. Louisiana Louisiana 2023-07-03 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights criminal-trial due-process equal-protection fair-trial impartial-jury jury-selection petit-venire racial-discrimination Whether Louisiana deprived Mr. Thomas of his right to an impartial jury trial before his peers
22-7700 Michael Tisius v. David Vandergriff, Warden Eighth Circuit 2023-06-04 Denied IFP death-penalty due-process habeas-corpus juror-disqualification jury-selection procedural-claim state-concealment statutory-disqualification statutory-violation voir-dire Whether a federal petition raising a Hicks v. Oklahoma, 447 U.S. 348 (1980) claim is 'second or successive' under 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(2)
22-7699 Michael Tisius v. David Vandergriff, Warden Missouri 2023-06-02 Denied IFP due-process illiteracy juror-qualification juror-qualifications jury-selection missouri-law right-to-fair-trial voir-dire Did the Missouri Supreme Court's failure to enforce Missouri's mandatory exclusion from the jury of persons who cannot read or write violate Mr. Tisiu…
22-7673 James Michael Wells v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP anonymous-jury apprendi-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-selection jury-trial public-trial restitution-order sixth-amendment Whether a criminal defendant has a Sixth Amendment right to a public jury
22-7539 Stacy Gallman v. United States Third Circuit 2023-05-12 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP court-proceedings criminal-procedure cross-examination evidence evidence-ruling jury-selection public-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment's public trial guarantee extends to proceedings after a jury has been seated in which the court rules on challenged eviden…
22-7529 Storm N. Rivera v. New York New York 2023-05-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel juror-bias jury-selection mode-of-proceedings mode-of-proceedings-error rape-prosecution sexual-abuse Whether a juror who failed to disclose during jury selection that she was a victim of sexual abuse should have been disqualified
22-7374 Earl McCoy v. United States Second Circuit 2023-04-26 Denied IFP court-of-appeals due-process false-statements juror-bias jury-selection mcdonongh-test mcdonough-standard new-trial sixth-amendment voir-dire whether-the-court-of-appeals-misapplied-mcdonongh
22-7345 Ali F. Elmezayen v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure domestic-abuse due-process fair-trial impartial-jury jury-selection sixth-amendment voir-dire Whether a district court may refuse to inform the venire during jury selection about key emotional issues in the case, such as allegations of domestic…
22-7185 Brandon Scott Donaldson v. Tennessee Tennessee 2023-04-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky but-for-cause civil-rights fair-cross-section jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike pretext race-neutral race-neutral-explanation systematic-underrepresentation Whether a peremptory challenge complies with Batson if a prosecutor voiced a race-neutral explanation for his strike in addition to pretextual, improp…
22-6955 Jaime Piero Cole v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-03-07 Denied IFP caldwell-v-mississippi caldwell-violation certificate-of-appealability death-penalty fifth-circuit-ruling ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection procedural-default voir-dire Was the Fifth Circuit's ruling that a court's comments during voir dire cannot give rise to a Caldwell violation erroneous and in tension with rulings…
22-6934 Jack V. Smalley v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-03-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP batson-challenge batson-claim comparative-juror-analysis discrimination discriminatory-purpose due-process jury-selection peremptory-challenge voir-dire Does a comparative-juror analysis on a Batson claim depend on the reasons a party actually gave for exercising a peremptory challenge, or does it exte…
22-6858 In Re Zumar H. Dubose 2023-02-24 Denied IFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury indictment jury-selection personal-jurisdiction sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction trial-rights Whether the U.S. District Court has personal or subject-matter jurisdiction over an indictment that was not filed in open court or voted on by 10 or m…
22-6864 In Re Abdush S. DuBose 2023-02-24 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-procedure criminal-defendant due-process grand-jury indictment judicial-discretion jurisdiction jury-selection standing trial-rights Whether the U.S. District Court has personal or subject-matter jurisdiction over an indictment that was not filed in open court or voted on by a grand…
22-6775 Josue Anahun Marquez-Oseguera v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP Batson-challenge constitutional-law equal-protection implicit-bias jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike race-discrimination race-neutral-reason Whether unstable work history automatically qualifies as a race-neutral reason for a peremptory strike in response to a Batson challenge
22-6745 Robert Hill v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP Batson-challenge civil-rights constitutional-procedure due-process eighth-circuit equal-protection jury-selection prima-facie-evidence prosecutorial-discretion standard-of-review Whether petitioner established prima facie evidence demonstrating countervailing factors excusing him from making his similarly situated Batson-based …
22-6678 Cortez Watts v. Mississippi Mississippi 2023-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process extraneous-evidence impartial-jury juror-misconduct jury-bias jury-selection trial-procedure Whether the trial court properly applied the Darden test of Juror Misconduct
22-6662 Wesley Ruiz v. Texas Texas 2023-01-31 Denied IFP constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process equal-protection juror-misconduct jury-selection racial-bias sixth-amendment Does Peria-Rodriguez apply to Petitioner's evidence that at least one juror relied on anti-Hispanic racial stereotypes and animus to find that he was …
22-6642 Leihinahina Sullivan v. Federal Bureau of Prisons, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-01-26 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial jury-selection public-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a public trial applies to jury selection proceedings
22-6579 Jaime Hoyos v. Ronald Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-01-19 Denied IFP batson-challenge due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination standard-of-review voir-dire Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals violate petitioner's rights under the Fourteenth Amendment?
22-6547 Kashai Jones v. Illinois Illinois 2023-01-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process illinois-supreme-court judicial-discretion jury-instructions jury-selection legal-principles plain-error trial-court wainwright-v-witt Whether the Illinois Supreme Court's rule requiring trial courts to ensure that each juror understands the principles of People v. Zehr, 103 Ill. 2d 4…
22-6483 Eli Sloan v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-01-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure impartial-jury jury-selection prejudicial sixth-amendment trial-procedure voir-dire Whether the voir dire selection was partial or prejudicial, in violation of Petitioner, Eli Sloan's Sixth Amendment right to an impartial jury
22-6438 Tommiel Q. Claiborne, aka Tommie Lee Claiborne, Jr., aka Tommie L. Claiborne v. Mississippi Mississippi 2023-01-03 Denied IFP confrontation constitutional-rights court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure criminal-proceeding due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection legal-assistance peremptory-challenges sixth-amendment Ineffective Assistance of Counsel for Failing to Exercise the Right to Challenge Jurors for Cause or Peremptory Challenge Purposes
22-6353 Furlonzo R. Moran v. Louisiana Louisiana 2022-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fair-trial juror-disqualification jury-selection social-media-evidence trial-court-discretion Is it unconstitutional to disqualify a juror from service without just cause?
22-6107 Jarmal Williamson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky circuit-split equal-protection flowers-v-mississippi jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination Does Batson v. Kentucky and its progeny instruct courts to consider repeated misstatements of the record by a prosecutor as suggestive of pretext when…
22-6057 Tony Terrell Clark v. Mississippi Mississippi 2022-11-15 Denied Relisted (15)IFP batson-v-kentucky civil-rights due-process flowers-v-mississippi jury-selection racial-discrimination Whether Mississippi continues to misapply Batson v. Kentucky
22-5839 Daniel Mason v. Colorado Colorado 2022-10-14 Denied IFP batson-challenge constitutional-law due-process equal-protection fair-trial jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike racial-discrimination Whether the Colorado Supreme Court erred in finding no Equal Protection violation when the prosecution impermissibly used race as a reason for the per…
22-5840 Joseph Shook v. Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-10-14 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-trial due-process evidence evidence-admission evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jury-selection life-sentence prejudice prejudicial-testimony right-to-remain-silent Whether a Petitioner who is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole is denied his constitutional rights
22-5818 In Re Errol Victor, Sr. 2022-10-12 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-privileges criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jury-selection racial-discrimination speedy-trial trial-rights Whether the Louisiana Supreme Court violated the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses by denying petitioner's request for a…
22-5679 Dwandarrius Jamar Robinson v. Arizona Arizona 2022-09-26 Denied IFP batson-challenge discriminatory-intent disparate-impact due-process equal-protection jury-selection misstatements-of-fact peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination Must a court reviewing a Batson challenge consider both a substantial disparate impact on minority jurors and the cumulative nature of the State's mis…
22-5671 Andre Juvell Byrd v. Georgia Georgia 2022-09-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-framework batson-v-kentucky due-process equal-protection intentional-discrimination jury-selection mccollum-v-georgia peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination Did the Supreme Court of Georgia violate the Equal Protection of the Laws
22-161 Robert Nieto and Darrick R. Vallodolid v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-08-22 Denied Response Waived batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky constitutional-rights equal-protection jury-selection prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether the prosecutor's peremptory striking of Hispanic prospective jurors violated the Equal Protection Clause
22-5377 Malik Breyon Hollis v. Matthew Magnusson, Warden First Circuit 2022-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jury-composition jury-selection peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination Whether peremptory challenges of racial minorities during jury selection in criminal trials should be subjected to a heightened judicial inquiry of st…
22-5300 Michael G. Peters v. Andrew S. Hanen Fifth Circuit 2022-08-05 Dismissed IFP 6th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-selection public-trial Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a public trial applies to jury selection proceedings
22-5285 Alifonso Eduardo Garcia v. Kansas Kansas 2022-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP autopsy-evidence criminal-procedure due-process jury-questionnaire jury-selection lesser-included-offense presumed-prejudice skilling-factors standard-of-review venue venue-prejudice Whether the Kansas Supreme Court erred in finding no presumed prejudice in the venue of Rooks County
22-5187 Jesus Maya-Zapata v. California California 2022-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky credibility-determination judicial-procedure jury-selection peremptory-challenge peremptory-excusal-of-a-juror reasonableness-of-stated-justifications sixth-amendment Whether there is a single deferential standard of appellate review for Sixth-Amendment-claims-arising-under-Batson-v-Kentucky or whether appellate cou…
22-5163 Diann Ramcharan v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection immigration immigration-fraud jury-selection race-discrimination racial-bias voir-dire Is it an abuse of discretion for a district court, when there is a proper request by the accused, to refuse to conduct reasonable voir dire inquiry in…
22-44 Westley Devone Harris v. Alabama Alabama 2022-07-15 Denied criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury juror-misconduct jury-selection sixth-amendment voir-dire Whether a criminal defendant is deprived of his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to an impartial jury when a jury member gives dishonest and inco…
21-8279 Randy William Gay v. Arkansas Arkansas 2022-06-29 Denied IFP capital-defendant capital-punishment effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-jury fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection sixth-amendment voir-dire Whether a capital defendant's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments rights to a fair and impartial jury and to the effective assistance of counsel are viola…
21-8132 James E. Sanicki, Jr. v. Chris S. Buesgen, Warden Seventh Circuit 2022-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review biased-juror constitutional-review due-process judicial-procedure jury-selection legal-standard peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes reversal standard-of-review Whether errors in jury selection resulted in seating a biased juror, or deprivation of the mandated number of peremptory challenges should have been r…
21-7911 Lincoln Dille, aka Lincoln Dille II v. Mississippi Mississippi 2022-05-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection evidence-sufficiency jury-instructions jury-selection racial-discrimination speedy-trial standing whether-the-state-used-all-of-its-peremptory-challenges-against-african-american-jurors
21-1423 Anthony Hoti v. City of Warren, Michigan Michigan 2022-05-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3) arrest-authority civil-rights due-process jury-selection jury-tampering law-enforcement-discretion probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct standing trial-procedure Whether the prior secret contacts between the prosecutor and a sitting juror constituted an external influence on the jury
21-7722 Santonio Byars v. Illinois Illinois 2022-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky civil-rights equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination voir-dire Whether the Illinois Appellate Court erred in not finding the State's reason for removing two Black prospective jurors was pretext for discrimination
21-7584 William O. Dickerson v. South Carolina South Carolina 2022-04-11 Denied IFP batson-challenge civil-rights comparative-juror-analysis due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection peremptory-strikes post-conviction-review racial-discrimination standing voir-dire Did the state postconviction court violate Batson-and-its-progeny
21-7566 Andrew James Johnston v. John Devries Seventh Circuit 2022-04-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial jury-selection public-trial sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a public trial applies to voir dire proceedings
21-7522 Jerry Wayne Phillips v. Martin Frink, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto grand-jury indictment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection sexual-battery standard-of-review Can convictions of aggravated-sexual-battery be sustained when the state-failed-to-prove-elements
21-7475 Edward James Rose v. Arizona Arizona 2022-03-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky constitutional-inquiry discriminatory-purpose equal-protection judicial-speculation jury-selection peremptory-strikes prosecutorial-discretion Whether a court can use its own speculation to supplant facts necessary to make findings at each step of the Batson inquiry
21-7455 Don'te Lamont McDaniel v. California California 2022-03-24 Denied IFP batson-challenge civil-rights due-process equal-protection jury-selection mixed-motive peremptory-strikes prosecutorial-bias racial-bias racial-discrimination racial-stereotypes Proper method for assessing mixed motive in Batson cases
21-7437 Steven Hutchinson v. Michael Zaken, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Greene, et al. Third Circuit 2022-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge Batson-v-Kentucky constitutional-violation ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection presumption-of-prejudice racial-discrimination strickland-standard Strickland-v-Washington Should prejudice under Strickland v. Washington be presumed for an ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claim based on counsel's failure to object to unc…
21-7381 Jessie D. Hoffman, Jr. v. Louisiana Louisiana 2022-03-16 Denied Amici (1)IFP capital-case criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process juror-misconduct jury-selection no-impeachment-rule peña-rodriguez racial-bias Did the Louisiana Supreme Court err in failing to consider clear evidence of juror racial bias under Peña-Rodriguez in the extraordinary circumstances…
21-7371 Sherman Collins v. Alabama Alabama 2022-03-15 Denied IFP capital-trial cause-challenge civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment juror-bias jury-selection prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-relationship standing Does a trial court's erroneous failure to remove for cause jurors with personal and professional relationships with a prosecuting attorney violate the…
21-7358 Joseph Elliott v. George Little, Acting Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2022-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP capital-case certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause ineffective-assistance jury-selection out-of-court-statements right-to-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-preparation Whether trial counsel was ineffective under Strickland v. Washington where counsel met with petitioner for less than 15 minutes before trial
21-7300 LeMaricus Davidson v. Tennessee Tennessee 2022-03-08 Denied IFP actual-prejudice death-penalty fair-trial fundamental-fairness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection post-conviction prejudice-presumption structural-error Should prejudice in an ineffective-assistance-of-counsel case be presumed where the deficient performance of counsel resulted in a structural-error co…
21-7302 Christian Peterson v. Kansas Kansas 2022-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge Batson-v-Kentucky civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure jury-selection race-discrimination racial-discrimination Did the Kansas courts err in failing to recognize race discrimination under Batson
21-7307 Jennifer McFarland v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike racial-discrimination venireperson Whether the government's preemptory strike of Prospective Juror 128, the sole black venireperson in the 31-member pool of potential jurors, violated M…
21-1110 Travis Boys v. Louisiana Louisiana 2022-02-10 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived batson-challenge Batson-v-Kentucky due-process Johnson-v-California jury-selection peremptory-strikes prima-facie-case racial-discrimination Whether the Louisiana appellate court applied an impermissibly high burden of proof at the first step of Batson by creating an unattainable statistica…
21-7071 Keaon Wilson v. United States Third Circuit 2022-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process juror-misconduct juror-numbers jury-selection mix-up sixth-amendment structural-error trial-procedure Is it structural error in violation of the Sixth Amendment for a juror to sit on a jury when that juror was not actually selected to be on the jury du…
21-1094 Jacques Jean Kabongo v. Michigan Michigan 2022-02-07 Denied appellate-review batson-challenge due-process equal-protection fair-trial jury-selection structural-error supreme-court-review Whether the Michigan Supreme Court's application of Batson was objectively unreasonable
21-7016 Tony Gonzalez v. Rhode Island Rhode Island 2022-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion brady-violation cellphone-search criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment jury-selection jury-venire motion-to-suppress sixth-amendment standing Did the trial Justice err, when the Jury Venire challenge, had been inappropriately addressed, concerning a proper sixth Amendment challenge? And Tria…
21-7025 Derrick Garrell Samuels v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-rights due-process equal-protection expert-testimony fair-trial fifth-amendment jury-composition jury-selection prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination sixth-amendment Whether Samuel's Fifth Amendment rights were violated when he was forced to proceed to trial as the only black person in the courtroom
21-6771 Charles Reddicks v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2022-01-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-records equal-protection fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury jury-selection race-neutral racial-discrimination sixth-amendment Whether permitting the Government to run criminal records for potential jurors, then use the records of the record check to strike jurors of color, vi…
21-6772 Jerry Lee Canfield v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-01-06 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-error due-process harmless-error jury-bias jury-impartiality jury-selection structural-error voir-dire Whether the Fifth Circuit's newly created rule under the principle of 'interpretati logica' allowing rehabilitation of a biased juror is contrary to t…
21-6747 Victor Dewayne Taylor v. Scott Jordan, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-12-29 Denied IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky capital-case constitutional-law habeas-corpus jury-selection peremptory-challenges race-discrimination race-neutral-reason sixth-circuit Is a prosecutor's statement that he believed he could discriminatorily remove African-American jurors from the panel as long as he left one African-Am…
21-6661 Alonzo Cortez Johnson v. Jimmy Martin, Warden Tenth Circuit 2021-12-20 Denied IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky criminal-procedure habeas-corpus jury-selection peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination reconstruction-hearing waiver Do the normal rules of waiver apply in a situation like this to preclude a reconstruction hearing where the State has failed to offer any reasons for …
21-896 Jimmy Martin, Warden v. Alonzo Cortez Johnson Tenth Circuit 2021-12-16 Denied anti-terrorism-act batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky direct-appeal federal-court-proceedings habeas-corpus jury-selection standard-of-review state-court-proceedings tenth-circuit whether-the-tenth-circuit-violated-the-antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act
21-6468 Joshua Fernandes v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2021-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP age-discrimination constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fair-cross-section jury-selection peremptory-challenge race-neutral-reasons Whether age is a protected class and whether excluding young potential jurors violates Equal Protection
21-6484 Thomas Lee Battle v. California California 2021-12-01 Denied IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky burden-shifting civil-rights discrimination hypothetical-justifications jury-selection prima-facie prima-facie-case prosecutorial-discretion title-vii Should analysis of a prima facie case of discrimination under Batson prohibit reliance upon hypothetical justifications never advanced by the prosecut…
21-6435 James Worley v. Ohio Ohio 2021-11-29 Denied IFP capital-conviction capital-punishment constitutional-rights fair-jury fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-selection sixth-amendment voir-dire Is a capital conviction and sentence invalid and imposed in violation of the capital defendant's constitutional rights to a fair jury under the Fifth,…
21-6348 Rafael Ramiro-Medina v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-22 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review batson-challenge criminal-procedure discriminatory-intent equal-protection fact-finding jury-selection procedural-error racial-discrimination standard-of-review Whether a federal court of appeals can conduct appellate fact-finding and resolve the factual question of discriminatory intent under Batson v. Kentuc…
21-6341 Donald D. Foltz, Jr. v. Wyoming Department of Corrections, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment implied-bias jury-bias jury-selection prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment Was the seating of juror who should have been dismissed for cause requires reversal because implied biased applies to Juror foreman, 1301, married to …
21-6267 Adrienne Brown-Mallard v. Potomac Concrete Company, Inc., et al. Maryland 2021-11-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky civil-rights civil-rights-act constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection j-e-b-v-alabama jury-selection Whether the use of peremptory challenges removing available potential jurors of both the same race and same gender (White Men, White Women, also Black…
21-6245 Robin Moore v. James David Green, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-11-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge civil-rights due-process fair-trial jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike racial-discrimination Whether the (Court's) failure to specifically find that the prosecution had made a preliminary showing of racial discrimination when denying a crimina…
21-6147 Joshua Komisarjevsky v. Connecticut Connecticut 2021-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-prejudice actual-prejudice-analysis emotional-nature-of-case guilty-verdict jury-selection presumed-prejudice-analysis presumption-of-prejudice pretrial-publicity venue-change voir-dire What consideration must courts give to (a) a guilty verdict, (b) the disruption to proceedings from pretrial publicity, and (c) the jury selection pro…
21-6083 James Osgood v. Alabama Alabama 2021-10-26 Denied IFP capital-punishment credibility-determinations death-penalty juror-challenge jury-selection sentencing-determination sixth-amendment trial-court witherspoon-v-illinois Can a reviewing court, consistent with the Sixth Amendment, uphold a challenge for cause in a capital case on the basis of a potential juror's persona…
21-6008 Keyaira Porter v. Arizona Arizona 2021-10-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review batson-challenge comparative-juror-analysis criminal-procedure equal-protection jury-selection racial-discrimination standard-of-review trial-procedure Whether a trial court must make express rulings at Batson's third step
21-5957 Manuela Villa de Morales v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-10-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-v-kentucky civil-rights fifth-circuit jury-selection racial-discrimination supervisory-powers Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed the decision of the United States Magistrate Judge denying M…
21-5923 Deonte Kinwan McCoy v. Michigan Michigan 2021-10-08 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance judicial-fact-finding jury-selection reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence Was the evidence insufficient to convict Mr. McCoy of each offense, and should this court reverse his convictions pursuant to federal and state consti…
21-5861 Bradley Garrett v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-legal-materials constitutional-violation dna-evidence due-process evidence-standards incarceration-rights jury-selection legal-access perjury procedural-protections standards-of-proof Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims regarding due process violations related to access to legal materials, perjured tes…
21-5893 In Re Sandra Black 2021-10-05 Denied IFP access-to-justice civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination standing systematic-exclusion systemic-racism Whether a black person can be treated equally to white persons in terms of constitutional rights, privileges, benefits, and advantages, given the fact…
21-5767 James Felton v. United States Second Circuit 2021-09-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process implicit-bias jury-impartiality jury-selection racial-bias racial-prejudice sixth-amendment voir-dire Does our society's evolving understanding of the impact of implicit bias on jury behavior justify overturning the 'substantial circumstances' test
21-5649 Javon Pierre Shelby v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-09-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky discriminatory-purpose equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-strike peremptory-strikes racial-bias racial-discrimination step-three-finding When a trial court denies a Batson motion as to one juror at step one and then, in response to a second Batson motion as to a subsequently struck juro…
21-5568 Carl Anthony Wilson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-09-03 Denied Relisted (2)IFP blood-evidence blood-search constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence fourth-amendment jury-selection prosecutorial-misconduct retroactivity Was evidence favorable to the defendant excluded?
21-5552 Brian Green v. Clinton Perry, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-01 Denied IFP constitutional-violation fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jury-selection procedural-default sixth-amendment warrantless-search warrantless-search-and-seizure Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in holding that no constitutional violations in Green's trial
21-5439 Michael Geoffrey Peters v. Bobby Lumpkin. Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-08-20 Denied IFP brady-evidence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct jurisdiction jury-selection trial-procedure Whether I am guilty on Count No.1 of the indictment
21-5347 Damantae Graham v. Ohio Ohio 2021-08-11 Denied IFP capital-punishment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection racial-bias racial-prejudice sixth-amendment voir-dire Is capital appellate counsel ineffective under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments when they do not raise that both the trial court and trial defense …
21-5237 Taurice Leonard Brown v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas-review jury-selection merits-decision sixth-amendment supremacy-clause Whether the Florida courts are refusing to consider Sixth Amendment claims in violation of the Supremacy Clause by not treating such claims as decisio…
21-5147 Firas Ayoubi v. Illinois Illinois 2021-07-20 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-law descamps-v-united-states divisible-statutes due-process equal-protection jury-selection mathis-v-united-states peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation united-states-v-cardena Whether the Tihnors Kidnapping Statute's divisible state statutes, as defined in Mathis v. United States (136 S.Ct. 2243 (2016)) and Descamps v. Unite…
21-5117 Christopher Allan Allred v. Washington Ninth Circuit 2021-07-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fair-trial jurisdiction jury-selection standing Whether the Harless v. Calbeaia filing, Can rhebes, if they so choose, substitute a preliminary hearing for a grand jury, by determining whether prose…
21-5094 Stanley Jalowiec v. Ohio Ohio 2021-07-13 Denied IFP caldwell-v-mississippi capital-case capital-punishment constitutional-error death-penalty hurst-v-florida jury-responsibility jury-selection sentencing-responsibility trial-procedure Is telling the jury that their decision is only a mere recommendation unconstitutional under Hurst v. Florida?
21-5050 Kristopher Love v. Texas Texas 2021-07-09 Denied Relisted (12)IFP court-of-criminal-appeals death-penalty due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment jury-selection racial-bias sixth-amendment Whether Texas' Court of Criminal Appeals has decided an important federal question concerning a racially biased juror being allowed on a capital death…
20-8449 Brian Keith Gorham v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-06-30 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus impartial-jury ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-bias jury-selection procedural-default sixth-amendment trial-procedure Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in finding no prejudice from the bias implied by an unqualified juror being seated on Gorham's jury, the court's abuse…
20-8458 Patrick Eugene Stein v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-06-30 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure district-court due-process jury-act jury-selection standing tenth-circuit weapon-of-mass-destruction Does this practice substantially violate the plain language of the Jury Act under 28 U.S.C. § 1861, and was the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals wrong t…
20-8414 Cynthia Stiger v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-06-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP alternate-jurors bias circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process health-care-fraud judicial-discretion juror-bias jury-selection restitution-liability supervised-release Did the Fifth Circuit err in holding that the district court did not abuse its discretion in refusing to strike a juror during trial based on perceive…
20-1799 Hozie Rowell v. Joan Ferreira, et al. Second Circuit 2021-06-24 Denied Response Waived batson-challenge civil-rights due-process equal-protection juror-bias jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike racial-discrimination Did the court of appeals contravene Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986)
20-8169 Yessenia Jimenez v. United States Second Circuit 2021-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge civil-rights cross-examination due-process fifth-amendment hispanic jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes pretextual-reasons Whether the government violated Batson v. Kentucky
20-8000 Natalie Marie Keepers v. Virginia Virginia 2021-05-12 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial impartial-jury interrogation-tactics jury-selection miranda-warnings peremptory-challenges sixth-amendment Whether a trial court's refusal to remove a potential juror who admits she cannot be certain she can be fair violates the Sixth Amendment guarantee of…
20-1560 Lowndes County Health Services, LLC v. Gregory Copeland, et al. Georgia 2021-05-11 Denied Response Waived appellate-review batson-challenge civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection juror-discrimination jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike race-neutrality racial-discrimination Whether striking a juror based on allegations of racial prejudice is a facially race-neutral explanation under Batson
20-7959 Thomas J. Connerton v. United States Second Circuit 2021-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process judicial-inquiry juror-discharge jury jury-selection reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment Should certiorari be granted where the District Court discharged a juror, without 'good cause' under rule 23(b)(3) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Pr…
20-1523 Rolando Cruz, Jr., Marc Hernandez, and Roscoe Villega v. United States Third Circuit 2021-04-30 Denied constitutional-rights drug-conspiracy integrity-of-courts jury-selection plain-error-review public-interest sentencing structural-error substantial-rights Whether a structural error that is both obvious and affects substantial rights can be excused on plain error review due to the potential costs of retr…
20-1512 Gregory C. Dacanay v. Illinois Illinois 2021-04-28 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury impartiality jury-selection law-enforcement sixth-amendment structural-error Whether law enforcement officers can be fair and impartial jury members in a criminal trial
20-7868 Douglas Kelly v. United States Third Circuit 2021-04-28 Denied IFP alleyne-precedent automatic-reversal direct-appeal drug-conspiracy jury-selection prejudice public-trial rico-conspiracy sentencing-enhancement structural-error Whether, in the context of a structural error involving a public trial violation during jury selection where no trial objection was made but the error…
20-7865 Terry Lee Froman v. Ohio Ohio 2021-04-27 Denied IFP capital-punishment constitutional-duty death-penalty fair-trial jury-selection racial-bias structural-error voir-dire Does trial counsel have an obligation to conduct a meaningful and comprehensive voir dire as it relates to racial bias, explicit or implicit, of juror…
20-7804 Michael William Ledford v. Warden, Georgia Diagnostic Prison Eleventh Circuit 2021-04-20 Denied IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky capital-sentencing civil-rights due-process gender-discrimination ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel j.e.b-v-alabama jury-selection psychopathy-evidence Whether Batson v. Kentucky allows an inference of discrimination based on a pattern of strikes against black or women jurors
20-7794 Kamau Davis v. California California 2021-04-16 Denied IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky due-process jury-selection meaningful-appeal peremptory-challenge seat-number transcript voir-dire Whether the voir dire transcript that identifies jurors by a changing seat number violates the due process right to a meaningful appeal when there wer…
20-7758 Benjamin E. Vance v. Frank B. Bishop, Jr., Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-04-14 Denied IFP batson-challenge constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial jury-selection peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination Did the lower courts violate Petitioner's Constitutional rights under the 14th Amendment to Due Process, Equal Protection clause, and U.S. Amendment V…
20-7764 Jamil Stefon Carter v. O'Bell T. Winn, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection motion-to-suppress plea-withdrawal right-to-appeal Whether due process requires plea withdrawal where the petitioner was unaware that his guilty plea waived his right to appeal the denial of a pre-tria…
20-1431 Charmell Brown v. Alex Jones, Acting Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-04-13 Denied Response Waived batson-framework batson-v-kentucky jury-selection peremptory-strike pretext prima-facie-case prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination Whether a court may rely on factors apparent in the record to explain a prosecutor's seemingly discriminatory peremptory strike at Batson's first step
20-7727 Hasan Shareef v. Brian Palko, et al. Third Circuit 2021-04-13 Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP 6th-amendment case-statement civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction jury-selection legal-reasoning public-trial statutory-provisions writ Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a public trial applies to jury selection proceedings
20-7683 Paul Wesley Baker v. California California 2021-04-07 Denied IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky constitutional-standard equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination standard-of-review What showing must a trial court make to demonstrate a 'sensitive inquiry' under Batson v. Kentucky?
20-7661 Rodney Russell v. United States First Circuit 2021-04-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review due-process ex-parte-communication juror-bias juror-dishonesty jury-selection motive structural-error Whether the district court violated due process by appointing the Federal Defender to represent a juror and inform the juror of the legitimacy of the …
20-1308 Roger D. White v. Super Gasoline, Inc., et al. Virginia 2021-03-19 Denied Response Waived 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial impartial-jury jury-selection racial-discrimination voir-dire Does the trial court's actions in tainting the jury violate the defendant's right to a fair trial and an impartial jury?
20-1262 MarySusan Ward v. Louisville Metro Government Kentucky 2021-03-11 Denied batson-v-kentucky civil-rights equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges supremacy-clause Whether the constitutional principles underlying Batson require trial courts to craft a meaningful remedy when a violation occurs
20-7396 Marlina Calhoun v. Walmart Stores East, LP Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights court-procedure court-representation deposition-misconduct disability-discrimination due-process jury-selection medical-evidence mental-health personal-injury workplace-injury Whether the plaintiff's constitutional rights were violated due to the court's failure to provide an interpreter and accommodate her mental health iss…
20-1186 Dynasty Group, Inc. v. Stephen Smith, Trustee for Bankruptcy Estate of Heritage Real Estate Investment Corporation Alabama 2021-02-25 Denied criminal-procedure jury-selection prejudicial-statements reversible-error trial-judge voir-dire Whether the Trial Judge Committed Reversible Error When He Refused to Strike the Jury Venire Due to the Taint of Prejudicial Statements Made During Vo…
20-6990 Allyn Akeem Smith v. Arizona Arizona 2021-01-29 Denied IFP 4th-amendment Batson-challenge cell-site-location-information csli exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception jury-selection search-and-seizure standing Does the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule obviate an illegal seizure of CSLI?
20-6915 Scott Lee Peterson v. California California 2021-01-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP capital-murder death-penalty eighth-amendment jury-selection sixth-amendment voir-dire witherspoon-challenge witherspoon-v-illinois Whether the Eighth Amendment permits a verdict of guilt returned by a jury from which all prospective jurors opposed to the death penalty have been im…
20-6896 Phillip A. Benjamin v. Florida Florida 2021-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fair-trial fourteenth-amendment jury-selection sixth-amendment witness-testimony Did the Trial Court err when limiting the testimonies of the defense witness from testifying of vital information, therefore, hindering the Defendant …
20-910 Anthony M. Lee v. Heath Parshall Seventh Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied civil-rights due-process judicial-discretion jury jury-selection racial-bias section-1983 standing voir-dire Whether the district court's refusal to probe potential jurors for bias or prejudice was an abuse of discretion under Rule 47(a)
20-6786 Erica Yvonne Sheppard v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-01-05 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2254 batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection mitigation-evidence section-2254 wilson-v-sellers Whether the Fifth Circuit's application of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) survives Wilson v. Sellers and whether the court must consider the impact of all mitiga…
20-6661 Brian Keith Figge v. Scott Frauenheim, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-12-18 Denied IFP criminal-defendant criminal-procedure deliberation-process due-process judicial-misconduct juror-dismissal jury-deliberations jury-selection jury-trial sixth-amendment trial-by-jury Does a trial court violate a criminal defendant's Sixth Amendment right to trial by jury when it dismisses a defense holdout juror on the third day of…
20-6628 Rodane Lamb v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy-charges criminal-procedure dea-testimony due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions jury-selection trial-errors Was counsel ineffective for not challenging issues
20-808 Johnny Duane Miles v. California California 2020-12-15 Denied Amici (1) batson-challenge batson-claim comparative-juror-analysis death-penalty jury-selection peremptory-challenges pretext prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination Whether a court reviewing a Batson claim may consider reasons distinguishing stricken jurors from those accepted by the prosecutor when the prosecutor…
20-6554 Jeffrey Fay Pike v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial impartial-jury jury-anonymity jury-selection presumption-of-innocence sixth-amendment Whether cloaking jurors in anonymity impermissibly impairs the presumption of innocence and the right of the accused to an impartial jury
20-6386 James Ray Earl Walker v. Nevada Nevada 2020-11-19 Denied IFP batson-framework death-penalty juror-selection jury-selection peremptory-strike race-discrimination racial-discrimination state-courts voir-dire Did the Nevada courts err in failing to observe and follow the three step Batson framework and failing to recognize the prosecutor's blatant discrimin…
20-6245 Jovon C. Davis v. Willis Chapman, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-11-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-selection sixth-amendment trial-counsel Denial of Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights
20-6260 Sherman Johnson, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-11-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP eighth-circuit equal-protection fifth-amendment flowers-v-mississippi foster-v-chatman juror-strikes jury-selection miller-el-v-dretke prosecutorial-discrimination voir-dire Whether the District Court and United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit considered the full context of the other evidence of discriminati…
20-497 Jamal A. Azeez v. West Virginia West Virginia 2020-10-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) actual-innocence civil-rights constitutional-rights ex-post-facto false-arrest jury-selection megan-laws perjury prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination Did the lower court condone systemic injustice against Petitioner?
20-5987 William J. Truesdale v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2020-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge civil-rights due-process equal-protection jury-selection neil-challenge peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination standing Whether a state trial court's brief colloquy and abbreviated review of evidence relevant to a Batson challenge satisfied its obligation under step thr…
20-5814 Anthony Kinta Webb v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-09-25 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment jury-selection probable-cause public-trial search-and-seizure Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a public trial applies to jury selection proceedings
20-5737 Jesse Lewis v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process juror-misconduct jury-impartiality jury-selection religious-bias sex-trafficking sixth-amendment Whether the presence of a juror with religious bias violated the defendant's Sixth Amendment right to an impartial jury
20-5728 Derrick A. Dotson v. Louisiana Louisiana 2020-09-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP batson-challenge collateral-review criminal-procedure equal-protection jury-selection jury-trial ramos-retroactivity retroactivity sixth-amendment teague-standard Whether Ramos v. Louisiana applies to cases on state collateral review
20-5698 Adrian Hernandez v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-09-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fair-trial federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection post-conviction procedural-default racial-bias standing state-court whether-a-petitioner-was-denied-a-fair-trial-when-a-juror-stated-she-could-not-be-impartial
20-5685 Ruben Sanchez v. Steven Silva, et al. First Circuit 2020-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-selection peremptory-challenge pretext racial-discrimination standard-of-review Whether the prosecutor's peremptory challenge of Hispanic prospective jurors was justified
20-5688 Joseph L. Berry v. Ohio Ohio 2020-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law equal-protection fourteenth-amendment gender-discrimination jury-selection race-discrimination Does discrimination in jury selection at the intersection of race and gender violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Un…
20-5676 Leon Venegas, Jr. v. Randee Rewerts, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-right criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel exculpatory-evidence faretta-inquiry ineffective-assistance jury-selection self-representation timely-request Does a state trial court deprive a criminal defendant of their constitutional right to self-representation?
20-5644 Jonathan Limary v. Maine Maine 2020-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights defense-of-others fair-trial impartial-jury jury-selection self-defense sixth-amendment voir-dire Did the lower court deny Jonathan Limary the right to a fair and impartial jury under the Sixth Amendment of the United States Constitution, by denyin…
20-5615 Michael Gordon v. United States First Circuit 2020-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-prosecution juror-impartiality jury-impartiality jury-selection marijuana-legalization marijuana-prosecution voir-dire When empaneling a jury for a federal marijuana prosecution in a state where marijuana is legal, must the voir dire be more keenly focused on whether a…
20-5598 Gary Richardson v. Colorado Colorado 2020-09-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process family-member impartial-jury jury-selection sixth-amendment structural-error Whether a trial judge commits structural error violating a defendant's Sixth Amendment and due process rights to an impartial and independent jury by …
20-5582 In Re Karl-Heinz Dupuy 2020-09-03 Denied IFP batson-hearing constitutional-rights deliberation-errors due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juror-bias jury-selection trial-procedure Whether the failure of counsel to seek a Batson hearing to present evidence of a pattern of discrimination in jury selection, and the failure to prese…
20-5440 Jose Tejada v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2020-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ethnic-bias fourteenth-amendment jury-selection sixth-amendment whether-the-right-to-a-fair-trial-requires-questioning-prospective-jurors-on-bias-against-hispanics
20-5398 Lezmond Charles Mitchell v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-08-18 Denied IFP civil-rights death-penalty due-process extraordinary-circumstance juror-interviews jury-selection pena-rodriguez racial-bias rule-60b Whether district courts can validly bar death-sentenced inmates from interviewing trial jurors post-verdict concerning racial bias
20-5286 Tomas Rodriguez Infante v. Michael Martel, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-defendant due-process equal-protection impartial-jury jury-selection peremptory-challenges racial-bias racial-discrimination Whether a trial court violates the Equal Protection Clause by removing a Filipino juror over the objection of a Filipino criminal defendant because it…
20-5036 Jermond Perry v. Jeffrey Woods, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky equal-protection habeas-corpus jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination sixth-amendment Was counsel's objection at the moment the pattern emerged sufficient to warrant a full Batson inquiry with respect to all strikes in the alleged patte…
20-5085 Joe Edward Johnson v. California California 2020-07-16 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (5)IFP batson-challenge criminal-procedure due-process faretta-motion faretta-v-california jury-selection legal-timeliness self-representation timeliness totality-of-circumstances Whether a pretrial request for self-representation can be held 'untimely'
20-5048 Josh L. Bowman v. Bert Boyd, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-07-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 5th-amendment batson-challenge confession confession-suppression constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-selection police-misconduct police-threats suppression Whether Mr. Bowman's confession should have been suppressed due to threats by police?
19-8898 Angelo Peter Efthimiatos v. United States Second Circuit 2020-07-06 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-circuit-split calendar criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion jury-selection presentation-of-evidence speedy-trial-act trial-delay uniformity Whether the Speedy Trial Act permits district courts to conduct jury selection within the time limits of the speedy trial clock but delay presentation…
19-8831 Eric Reid v. Arkansas Arkansas 2020-06-26 Denied IFP capital-case capital-cases constitutional-procedure criminal-trial death-penalty due-process jury-selection morgan-v-illinois voir-dire Whether the Arkansas' voir dire framework in capital cases conflicts with this Court's ruling in Morgan v. Illinois
19-1421 Michael Wilford LaFlamme v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-06-25 Denied Relisted (2) 6th-amendment bias constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission expert-testimony judicial-discretion jury-selection jury-selection-bias law-enforcement law-enforcement-bias trial-procedure voir-dire Was Petitioner Prejudiced When Several Prospective Jurors Withheld Crucial Information Pertaining To Employment As Law Enforcement When Asked During V…
19-8798 Rafeeq Salahuddin v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections Arizona 2020-06-24 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appeal-rights batson-rule civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jury-selection legal-procedure retroactivity Whether a State Court of last resort has power to destroy a defendant's Constitutional right to trial by jury whose members are selected by non-discri…
19-8783 Alfredo Gonzalez v. United States First Circuit 2020-06-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-851 dimaya-v-sessions due-process felony-drug-offense first-step-act johnson-v-united-states jury-selection plain-error-review sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment void-for-vagueness Whether the definition of 'felony drug offense' for the purposes of 21 U.S.C. §851 is void for vagueness
19-8487 Jerrell Berger v. Robert Adams, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2020-05-18 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection multiple-charges murder-charge sentencing sentencing-decision sixth-amendment trial-court Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the trial court's denial of his motion to dismiss the charges against him
19-8419 Erik Wilhelm Traczyk v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2020-05-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals civil-rights constitutional-standards due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jury-impartiality jury-selection state-court-proceedings trial-procedure Whether a state court's denial of a federal habeas corpus petition can be appealed to federal court when no state remedy is available
19-8420 Charles Wilson v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2020-05-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-ruling ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions jury-selection prosecutorial-discretion trial-court-discretion witness-testimony Whether the trial court abused its discretion when it excluded several jurors for failing to follow the voir dire process
19-8402 John Pacchiana v. Florida Florida 2020-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech jury-selection peremptory-strike racial-discrimination standing Whether this Court should grant a Writ of Certiorari to review the decision of the Florida Supreme Court finding that counsel failed to preserve an ob…
19-8378 Joseph Howell v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit 2020-04-30 Denied IFP absolute-disparity duren-v-missouri fair-cross-section jury-pool jury-selection minority-representation presumption-of-legitimacy sixth-amendment systematic-exclusion venire-study May a court deny a fair cross-section challenge to the jury pool simply because the 'absolute disparity' is less than 10%, thereby sanctioning the com…
19-8332 Robert Boyd Rhoades v. California California 2020-04-22 Denied Relisted (4)IFP batson-challenge civil-rights due-process equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenge peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination Whether the California Supreme Court erred in ruling that the trial court properly declined to find an inference of discrimination at step one of Bats…
19-8251 Kevin Duane Talkington v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-04-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juror-bias jury-instructions jury-selection Counsel's failure to strike biased juror,counsel's failure to investigate and present exculpatory evidence,court's failure to provide oral verbatim ju…
19-8232 William Lynn Jackson v. Mississippi Mississippi 2020-04-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge district-mapping due-process equal-protection jury-selection minority-representation racial-discrimination racial-gerrymandering standing voting-rights Whether the Petitioner is another example of the deprivation of the Equal Protection Clause which forbids the State's to exclude black persons from se…
19-8196 Larry Grant Gentry v. Arizona Arizona 2020-04-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP and whether a court should assess such a strike u batson-challenge Batson-v-Kentucky civil-rights due-process jury-selection objective-observer-test peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike purposeful-discrimination racial-discrimination Whether a party taints the entire jury selection proceedings by providing a racially discriminatory basis for exercising a peremptory strike at the se…
19-8197 Fred Furnish v. Kentucky Kentucky 2020-04-07 Denied IFP criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process habeas-corpus hearing-impairment impartial-jury juror-bias juror-impartiality jury-selection right-to-fair-trial When a juror realizes that he has been in an identical situation vis-a-vis the defendant as the victims of the defendant's crimes, is that juror unqua…
19-8047 Richard E. Daniel v. Timothy C. Ward, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-19 Denied IFP coercion constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination right-to-trial Whether a defendant has a constitutional right to withdraw a plea of not guilty and enter a plea of guilty over the objection of the trial judge
19-8021 Henry L. Jackson v. Utah, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP destruction-of-evidence due-process equal-protection evidence evidence-destruction fair-trial fourteenth-amendment jury-selection peremptory-challenge vehicle Whether the state violated petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment right to due process and a fair trial when it released petitioner's vehicle to the lienho…
19-7969 Embery J. McBride v. Walter Berry, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-13 Denied IFP civil-rights conviction cruel-punishment due-process equal-protection fair-trial fraud fundamental-fairness indictment-challenge ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection presentment sentencing special-presentment standing Whether the Court should grant the writ of certiorari to review the lower court's decision
19-7857 Chance Dechristian Adams v. Minnesota Minnesota 2020-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky circuit-split equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-strike peremptory-strikes pretext prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination standard-of-review When a peremptory strike of a prospective juror is challenged under Batson v. Kentucky, must the reviewing court examine each proffered reason for the…
19-7694 Malcolm J. Sanders v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2020-02-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenge racial-discrimination stop-and-frisk voir-dire Whether qualified persons of color may constitutionally be stricken from juries based solely on prior experiences of being stopped for Driving While B…
19-7654 Jean Roussel Eloi v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-process appeal-stages closing-arguments conviction defenses government-misconduct ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection relationship-evidence sealed-records sentencing-guidelines Whether counsel was ineffective for not pursuing all the way through the appeal stages, the government's statement during closing arguments that it sh…
19-7496 Garry Dean Stroner v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-01-30 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights discrimination due-process effective-counsel fair-cross-section fair-trial impartial-jury intentional-exclusion jury-composition jury-selection presumption-of-innocence prosecutorial-misconduct systematic-exclusion Whether the right to an impartial jury was violated by the systematic exclusion of male venirepersons
19-7467 Frankie Beqiraj v. United States Second Circuit 2020-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-presence due-process jury-selection peremptory-challenges right-to-be-present waiver Whether a defendant has a constitutional right to be present during a conference at which the parties exercise their peremptory challenges to strike p…
19-7468 Donald R. Phillips v. Kentucky Kentucky 2020-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights due-process false-answer implied-bias jury-selection material-error material-question prosecutorial-misconduct standing statutory-provisions voir-dire Whether a juror's responsibility to answer questions truthfully on voir dire continues through trial
19-7108 Devell Moore v. Robert LeGrand, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky equal-protection fair-trial jury-selection ninth-circuit peremptory-challenges purkett-v-elem trial-procedure Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in denying a Certificate of Appealability on Moore's claim he was denied equal protection of the law, and a fair trial…
19-7061 Charles Edward Smith v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-27 Denied IFP appellate-review batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky burden-shifting clearly-erroneous-standard jury-selection peremptory-challenge prima-facie-case racial-discrimination standard-of-review What is the standard of appellate review applicable to an adverse first-step Batson determination?
19-7001 Haji Bagcho, aka Haji Bagh Chagul, aka Haji Bagchagul v. United States District of Columbia 2019-12-18 Denied IFP acquittal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment jury-selection jury-selection-and-service-act racial-bias racial-discrimination sixth-amendment Whether a criminal defendant can be denied time to inspect jury records where the jury office's policy prohibited earlier observation of the venire or…
19-6861 Tony L. Henderson v. Arkansas Arkansas 2019-12-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-amendment criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process equal-protection jury-selection race-conscious venire Does a discretionary, race-conscious selection process for the venire called in a particular criminal trial violate the 6th and 14th Amendments to the…
19-6871 Justin Vazquez v. United States Second Circuit 2019-12-05 GVR IFP 6th-amendment civil-rights conflict-of-interest confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process evidence-admission ineffective-assistance jury-selection professional-conduct sentencing speedy-trial trial-procedure Whether assigned counsel were ineffective in violation of the 6th Amendment
19-6839 Patrick R. Smith v. Barbara D. Underwood, Attorney General of New York, et al. Second Circuit 2019-12-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection jury-selection racial-discrimination standing Whether the lower courts erred in upholding the racial discrimination in jury selection in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment
19-6743 Kenneth Dewayne Nelson v. Texas Texas 2019-11-25 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-selection plea-change right-to-jury right-to-trial sixth-amendment texas-code-of-criminal-procedure texas-constitution trial-by-jury venire-panel Was Nelson entitled to a new venire panel after changing his pleas from guilty to not guilty?
19-6647 Michael J. Baxter v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-15 Denied IFP acquitted-conduct batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jury-selection racial-discrimination reasonable-doubt sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment united-states-v-watts Whether the striking of two out of three black veniremembers demonstrates a 'pattern of discrimination' as necessary to satisfy the first step of the …
19-6603 Dijon Rasheed Brown v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment anticipatory-warrant controlled-delivery drug-possession fourth-amendment jury-selection probable-cause search-and-seizure standing Whether the Fourth Amendment tolerates the mere placing of a package containing drugs on a person's property, then executing the warrant when any pers…
19-6328 Antonio Leonard Brown v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-10-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection federalism habeas-corpus jurisdictional-issue jury-selection mandatory-minimum state-criminal-procedure Whether the same conduct can constitute both a state constitutional violation and a United States Constitutional violation
19-6272 Mauricio Lara-Bonilla v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky civil-rights discriminatory-intent due-process equal-protection juror-bias jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike trial-court-discretion Whether a party's challenge for cause to a minority juror is a relevant circumstance a trial court should consider when evaluating claims of discrimin…
19-6252 Edinson Herrera Ramirez v. Maryland Maryland 2019-10-11 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review biased-jury criminal-procedure discretion ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion jury-selection legal-standard maryland-court-of-appeals peremptory-challenge peremptory-strike prejudice Whether the Maryland court erred in holding that petitioner received ineffective assistance of counsel but failed to prove prejudice
19-6204 James Michael Biela v. Nevada Nevada 2019-10-08 Denied IFP appellate-counsel appellate-procedure constitutional-amendments due-process fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-impartiality jury-selection sixth-amendment standard-of-review Whether the Nevada Supreme Court committed error when it applied the wrong standard in failing to grant Mr. Biela relief based upon an unfair and impa…
19-6190 Jermaine Gerald Cook, et al. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination racial-quotas sixth-amendment Did the Ninth Circuit's disposition of Petitioners' Batson claim conflict with the Second Circuit and Sixth Circuit?
19-6043 Larry Craig Cash v. Vance Laughlin, Warden Georgia 2019-09-25 Denied IFP 14th-amendment constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process effective-assistance fourteenth-amendment jury-selection murder-trial racial-discrimination standing state-action trial-duty Whether the rights of a defendant under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment were properly utilized by the State of Georgia
19-5807 Thedrick Edwards v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-09-04 Judgment Issued Amici (20)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-selection jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment state-law Whether Louisiana's non-unanimous jury requirement for crimes requiring life sentences violates the Sixth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment of the Un…
19-5761 Javon Laren Martin v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2019-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection evidence jury-selection mistrial peremptory-strike racial-discrimination Whether the court erred in allowing the prosecution to use a peremptory strike without a race-neutral basis
19-5655 Chadwick N. Barner v. Illinois Illinois 2019-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fair-trial illinois-supreme-court-rule-431(b) impartial-jury jury-selection post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment voir-dire Whether the trial court violated the defendant's constitutional rights by failing to properly administer the jury selection process under Illinois Sup…
19-5591 Kirk Saintcalle v. Jeffrey A. Uttecht, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-08-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jury-selection peremptory-challenge racial-discrimination Did the Ninth Circuit err in affirming the district court's denial of Kirk Saintcalle's petition for a writ of habeas corpus on the grounds that the s…
19-5532 Timothy W. Sparrow v. Rusty Washburn, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-defective-indictment,double-jeo due-process evidentiary-rulings indictment-defect ineffective-assistance judicial-misconduct jury-representation jury-selection prosecutorial-misconduct sufficiency-of-evidence Was the indictment defective?
19-5449 Richard Shelley v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial jury-selection peremptory-strike sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-fair-trial Whether the district court erred in finding that Shelley failed to object to the government's use of a peremptory strike, thereby causing a 5th Amendm…
19-5132 Kenneth D. Sills v. Anne L. Precythe, Director, Missouri Department of Corrections Eighth Circuit 2019-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-v-kentucky constitutional-rights criminal-procedure flowers-v-mississippi ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection peremptory-challenges prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination sixth-amendment Whether certiorari should be granted where trial counsel was ineffective in failing to object to the prosecution's pretextual explanation for exercisi…
19-5011 Danny P. Phipps v. New York New York 2019-06-28 Denied IFP 4th-amendment abandonment abandonment-property burden-of-proof burden-shifting civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process jury-selection pro-se-representation property-abandonment search-and-seizure standing Can Appellate Division develop a rule that shifts the burden from the People to a defendant to prove he or she did not abandon property making it subj…
18-9824 Steven G. Patten v. California California 2019-06-27 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection flight-instruction fourteenth-amendment harmless-error jury-selection peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination self-defense Whether Petitioner can establish a prima facie case of discrimination under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
18-9710 Lee Turner, Jr. v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-06-18 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky civil-rights comparative-juror-analysis discrimination due-process equal-protection johnson-v-california jury-selection prima-facie-case prima-facie-discrimination prosecutorial-strikes racial-bias racial-discrimination standard-of-proof Whether mere statistics are sufficient to demonstrate a prima facie case of discrimination
18-9648 Jamelle Edward Armstrong v. California California 2019-06-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP african-american batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky due-process equal-protection federal-question jury-selection peremptory-challenges race-neutrality supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review Did the California Supreme Court improperly decide the issue of the race-neutrality of respondent's exercise of its trial peremptory challenges to exc…
18-9652 Cedric McDonald v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jury-selection racial-bias sixth-amendment trial-counsel voir-dire Whether trial counsel rendered ineffective counsel in failing to object to district court's use of a video in voir dire, which was designed to get jur…
18-9637 Robert Travis Jenkins v. Kansas Kansas 2019-06-12 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-rights compliance-burden constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-regulations judicial-review jury-selection prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation Whether the trial court erred in denying Jenkins' Batson challenge during jury selection
18-9598 James W. Guy v. Ohio Ohio 2019-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech jury-bias jury-selection prejudice religion religious-discrimination religious-freedom sixth-amendment Did the trial court violate a Muslim defendant's Constitutional Rights under the First, Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitut…
18-9606 Curtis Wayne Givens v. Virginia Virginia 2019-06-11 Denied IFP 4th-amendment Arrest criminal-procedure due-process evidence-seizure Fifth-Amendment Jury-Selection motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure standing Voir-Dire witness-examination Whether the trial court properly overruled the Petitioner's motion to suppress evidence seized without probable cause
18-9534 Femi Alexander Mewase v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553a confrontation-clause criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-jury-selection due-process federal-rules-of-evidence jury-selection sentencing Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by affirming the improper removal of Juror 20
18-9558 Oladimeji Ayelotan v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment jury-selection sentencing shackling Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred
18-9487 Willie Lee Johnson v. Brad Cain, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2019-05-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-interpretation jury-selection legal-ethics oregon-state-bar presumption-of-innocence Whether the Oregon State Bar and the Oregon Supreme Court's Chief Justice's approved adoption of the American Bar Association's Model Rules of Profess…
18-9423 Ayanna Angle v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-05-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky constitutional-procedure equal-protection harmless-error judicial-review jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination Whether a court of appeals should grant a new trial when it finds that the district court failed to complete all three steps of the Batson analysis
18A1208 Herron Kent Duckett v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-05-22 Presumed Complete batson-challenge constitutional-right habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-selection state-court-review Whether ineffective assistance of counsel claims involving failure to investigate and challenge jury selection require federal habeas relief when the …
18-9339 Anthony Dajuan Yates v. California California 2019-05-20 Denied IFP batson batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky criminal-procedure disparate-impact equal-protection juror-selection jury-selection peremptory-challenge peremptory-challenges race-neutral-explanation racial-profiling Does a prosecutor's peremptory challenge of a prospective African-American juror based on the juror's perception of racial profiling by law enforcemen…
18-9242 Joel Hayden v. Maine Maine 2019-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection ethnicity fourteenth-amendment jury-selection jury-selection-process language-barrier race-discrimination racial-bias racial-discrimination voir-dire When a party moves to strike a prospective juror for cause due to a 'language barrier', what record must the court make to ensure the strike is not ba…
18-9149 John David Brookins v. Tammy Ferguson, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Phoenix, et al. Third Circuit 2019-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP equal-protection evidence-suppression ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection peremptory-challenges prosecutorial-misconduct constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jury-selection peremptory-challenges prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights of due process and equal protection were violated in the lower court proceedings
18-9118 Emanual Deleon Fields v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination standing Whether the U.S. Constitution's equal protection clause was violated when the trial court denied the petitioner's motion to dismiss due to the prosecu…
18-8895 Kevin Watkins v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2019-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel civil-rights conflicted-jurors conflicts-of-interest criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection open-trial Is a defendant's right to an open trial violated when an attorney observing the trial and was asked to assist with defendant's appeal, was barred from…
18-8802 Eli Vernon, III, aka Eli Mims v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-04-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP counsel-objection criminal-procedure due-process duren-analysis duren-v-missouri equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection peremptory-challenge peremptory-challenges strickland-standard strickland-v-washington systematic-exclusion Does the first prong in Duren v Missouri establish a systematic exclusion for counsel to object?
18-8748 Dajuan A. Alridge v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-04-09 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection jury-selection jury-unanimity juvenile-sentencing non-unanimous-jury prima-facie prima-facie-case racial-discrimination Whether statistics alone are sufficient to demonstrate a prima facie case of discrimination in the first step of a Batson analysis?
18-8692 Jerry Adams, Jr. v. Robert Neuschmid, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-04-03 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2254 appellate-review batson-challenge batson-claim equal-protection habeas-corpus jury-selection prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination standard-of-review state-court-review Whether the Ninth Circuit properly applied 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) to a Batson claim when the California courts' decisions relied upon legal principles in…
18-8643 Joseph Lee Flores v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-04-01 Denied IFP bias criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juror-bias jury-selection sixth-amendment trial-counsel voir-dire WHETHER VENIREMAN WHO STATED DURING VOIR DIRE THAT HIS ABILITY TO BE FAIR WOULD BE AFFECTED BY PRIOR EXPERIENCE WITH CRIME EXPRESS BIAS; RENDERING COU…
18-8612 Jason Johnson v. Paul M. Gonyea, et al. Second Circuit 2019-03-28 Denied IFP batson-v-kentucky civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus jury-selection racial-discrimination Did trial court unreasonably apply Supreme Court's precedent when it bypassed step 3 of the Batson v. Kentucky requirement's in its consideration of p…
18-8307 Dockery Cleveland v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment-search-and-seizure 6th-amendment-jury-trial appellate-review cell-phone cell-phone-search equal-protection fourth-amendment jury-selection ongoing-intrusion peremptory-challenge race-neutral-basis search-and-seizure suppression suppression-of-evidence time-limitation warrant warrant-limitation whether-defendant-must-renew-objection-to-perempto Whether the failure to extract information from a cell phone within the time limitation of a warrant requires suppression of the tardily obtained info…
18-8275 Brian Sawyers v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection implicit-bias jury-instruction jury-instructions jury-selection racial-bias racial-discrimination racial-prejudice sixth-amendment voir-dire Whether the federal district court should give an implicit-bias jury-instruction upon-request
18-8122 Ralph Hall v. Darwin LaClair, et al. Second Circuit 2019-02-25 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jury-selection newly-discovered-evidence public-trial sixth-amendment standing Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a public trial extends to the voir dire process of jury selection
18-8074 Javonte T. Morgan v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP challenge-for-cause civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial judicial-proceedings jury-selection peremptory-challenges standard-of-review standing sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the lower court erred in denying the petitioner's challenge for cause and finding the evidence sufficient to support the conviction
18-7981 Santos Peter Murillo, aka Peter Santos Murillo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson batson-hearing civil-rights discrimination first-amendment fourth-amendment jury-selection public-trial sixth-amendment standing triviality-exception warrantless-search Is there a 'triviality' exception to the First Amendment's and Sixth Amendment's public trial requirement, and, if so, was a hearing regarding Governm…
18-7926 Hubert Babb v. Clara Smith, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied IFP appeals civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution determinative-motive due-process equal-protection jury-selection racial-discrimination sentencing Whether indigent and/or pro se defendants in criminal prosecutions have constitutional protection from the presence of socioeconomic discrimination as…
18-7817 Andrew Paul Ceballos v. California California 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge Batson-v-Kentucky civil-rights disparate-impact due-process equal-protection jury-selection prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination scotus Whether disparate impact on African Americans should be considered at Batson's third step
18-7782 James E. Mason, Jr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-02-06 Denied IFP batson-challenge batson-challenges burden-of-proof confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process impeached-testimony ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel insufficient-evidence jury-instructions jury-selection race-neutral-challenges Whether the State obtained Mr. Mason's conviction with insufficient evidence
18-7756 Roscoe Chambers v. Nicholas Sarcone Eighth Circuit 2019-02-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 2nd-amendment 6th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction jury-selection public-trial standing Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a public trial applies to a criminal defendant's exclusion from the courtroom during jury selection
18-7590 Joshua Jacobs v. Texas Texas 2019-01-28 Denied IFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment bias constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-and-impartial-jury fair-trial impartial-jury judicial-discretion jury-selection trial-counsel trial-procedure voir-dire When trial-judge-imposed limitations on voir dire interfere with trial counsel's ability to identify veniremembers whom may be challengeable for cause…
18-7594 James Randall Rogers v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Georgia 2019-01-28 Denied Relisted (3)IFP capital-cases civil-rights death-penalty equal-protection habeas-corpus jury-discrimination jury-selection peremptory-challenges prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination racial-exclusion standing Does Lanier's systematic discrimination against African Americans violate Strauder v. West Virginia, 380 U.S. 202 (1965), and Foster v. Chatman?
18-7536 Jason M. Reeves v. Darrell Vannoy, Warden Louisiana 2019-01-24 Denied IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes prima-facie-case racial-discrimination side-by-side-comparison voir-dire Whether the Petitioner has established a prima facie case that Batson v. Kentucky had been violated
18-7452 Herminio Garcia-Carillo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process due-process,equal-protection,immigration,prejudice equal-protection fair-trial free-speech immigration immigration-bias impartiality jury-selection prejudice voir-dire Whether a judge must allow voir dire into prejudice against Mexican immigrants when a Mexican immigrant faces trial for illegal reentry after a presid…
18-7224 Jose Alejandro Acuna Valenzuela v. Arizona Arizona 2019-01-03 Denied IFP constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process fair-trial heightened-reliability impartial-jury juror-bias jury-selection motion-to-vacate prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the trial court violated Mr. Acuna's constitutional rights to a fair and impartial jury, to due process, to heightened reliability, and to be …
18-7194 Brandon Lee Colbert v. California California 2018-12-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson batson-challenge impartial-jury jury-selection peremptory-challenge police-misconduct race-neutral race-neutral-reason sixth-amendment Does the Sixth Amendment right to an impartial jury permit the reviewing court, at Batson's first stage, to conclude that a minority venire member's n…
18-7144 Rodney Russell v. United States First Circuit 2018-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky civil-rights criminal-procedure-peremptory-challenges due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-selection peremptory-strike powers-v-ohio racial-discrimination standing Whether a district court has an obligation to inquire of the prosecution as to the substance behind their stated reasons as to why they used a perempt…
18-7094 Floyd Daniel Smith v. California California 2018-12-19 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2)IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky due-process equal-protection flowers-v-mississippi jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination Whether striking black jurors by using racially charged characteristics unrelated to the case is permissibly race-neutral
18-7016 Tuad Damonn Washington v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-12-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky civil-rights constitutional-claims discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-selection peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination sixth-amendment standing whether-district-court-assessment-was-debatable
18-749 JoEllen Mary Crossett v. Michigan Michigan 2018-12-11 Denied conflicts-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel impartial-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juror-bias jury-selection peremptory-challenges prejudice sixth-amendment state-and-federal-rights trial-procedure Was Petitioner denied her state and federal rights to the effective assistance of counsel, and did Michigan Court of Appeals err when it confirmed wit…
18-6961 In Re Michael D. Johnson 2018-12-07 Denied IFP 6th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process jury-reduction jury-selection right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Does the Sixth Amendment demand the assistance of counsel for a defendant during jury selection or jury reduction?
18-6919 Marcelo Joel Santos-Cordero v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-12-06 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP batson batson-challenge circuit-split civil-rights discriminatory-intent due-process equal-protection judicial-review jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike racial-discrimination Following a remand, must a trial court that is retrospectively analyzing whether a peremptory strike violated Batson's prohibition against discriminat…
18-6802 Patrick Kitlas v. F. B. Haws, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied IFP actual-reason actual-reasons batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky due-process equal-protection evidentiary-hearing jury-selection ninth-circuit peremptory-strike prosecutor-reasons prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination Does the Ninth circuit's affirmance of the denial conflict with this Court's actual reason requirement?
18-6819 Keith Tharpe v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability collateral-review death-penalty due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus juror-misconduct jury-selection pena-rodriguez racial-bias racial-bias-in-jury retroactivity Whether a juror's racial bias affected a death sentence
18-6668 Michael Tory, Jr. v. Whited, RNB, et al. Virginia 2018-11-13 Denied IFP civil-procedure common-knowledge due-process jury-determination jury-selection legal-standard medical-malpractice procedural-rights state-authority state-regulation Can the State of Virginia in all medical malpractice cases determine the common knowledge and experience of a jury?
18-6624 Farris Genner Morris v. Tennessee Tennessee 2018-11-08 Denied IFP batson-challenge-review batson-v-kentucky collateral-review due-process equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination Where the trial prosecutor's rationale for striking the lone black juror applied just as well to two white jurors, and the proof that the prosecutor's…
18-6480 Gregory Hill v. James Gammon, Superintendent, Moberly Correctional Center Eighth Circuit 2018-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP anderson-v-bessemer-city batson-challenge batson-claim constitutional-review due-process eighth-circuit eighth-circuit-jurisprudence federal-habeas jury-selection racial-discrimination racial-discrimination-in-jury-selection thomas-v-keohane Whether and to what extent the criminal justice system tolerates racial discrimination in selection of its jurors
18-6411 Ennis Reed v. California California 2018-10-24 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discrimination due-process equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges racial-bias racial-discrimination voir-dire Has California again departed from the federal standards governing determinations of racial bias during jury voir dire?
18-6309 Warren Justin Hardy v. California California 2018-10-12 Denied IFP comparative-analysis equal-protection fair-trial fourteenth-amendment jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination racial-overtones sixth-amendment Whether the California Supreme Court's refusal to conduct a meaningful comparative analysis or infer a likelihood of discriminatory purpose violates t…
18-6286 Lisa Jo Chamberlin v. Pelicia E. Hall, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections Fifth Circuit 2018-10-10 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2)IFP batson batson-v-kentucky civil-rights comparative-juror-analysis equal-protection habeas-corpus jury-selection peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination Whether a court reviewing a Batson claim may consider reasons distinguishing stricken jurors from those accepted by the prosecutor when the distinguis…
18-6108 Sontay T. Smotherman v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-09-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-claim discovery due-process election-integrity jury-selection records-inspection standing voting-rights Whether a defendant has an unqualified right to inspect voter selection records in order to aid in the preparation of a constitutional claim
18-352 South Carolina v. Raymond Lewis Young South Carolina 2018-09-18 Denied appellate-review batson-challenge batson-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure deference-to-trial-court discretionary-review equal-protection federal-question jury-selection peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination trial-court-deference Whether the South Carolina Court of Appeals erred in reversing Respondent's conviction on grounds that the trial court failed to conduct a proper Bats…
18-5928 Ricardo Limon-Urenda v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment ambiguous-answer criminal-procedure hearing impartial-jury impartiality ineffective-assistance juror-impartiality jury-selection prospective-juror right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether trial counsel rendered ineffective assistance under the 6th Amendment
18-5880 Virginia S. Caudill v. Janet Conover, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-09-05 Denied IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky circumstantial-evidence civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-selection peremptory-challenges prosecutorial-discrimination racial-discrimination sixth-amendment standing whether-the-state-court-ruled-contrary-to-or-unreasonably-applied-batson
18-255 George Briscoe v. Texas Texas 2018-08-28 Denied criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process fair-trial indictment indictment-amendment indictment-modification jury-selection prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation texas-criminal-procedure vagueness Can a defendant receive a fair trial when the plain language of a statute is ignored to allow the government to change the indictment after a jury has…
18-5649 Charles Richardson v. Jason Kent, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-08-20 Denied IFP criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection prosecutorial-misconduct recusal trial-counsel venue Whether the prosecutor's improper arguments resulted in an unfair trial and a guilty verdict of murder instead of a lesser charge thereto?
18-5657 Terence Passmore v. Dan O'Fallon, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juror-bias jury-selection sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-fair-trial Whether the presence of a juror who has expressed a belief that the petitioner is guilty rendered his trial unfair and in violation of the Sixth Amend…
18-5631 Steven M. Jacob v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Eighth Circuit 2018-08-17 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aedpa certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review double-jeopardy due-process habeas habeas-corpus jury-selection prejudice presumption-of-impartiality standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent voir-dire Was the Petitioner's demonstration sufficient to require de novo review under the Panetti v. Quarterman standard or the Johnson v. Williams standard, …
18-5271 Roger W. Murray v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections Ninth Circuit 2018-07-18 Denied Relisted (2)IFP batson batson-challenge Batson-v-Kentucky civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jury-selection mitigation-evidence ninth-circuit racial-discrimination voir-dire Whether the Arizona courts unreasonably applied Batson v. Kentucky and unreasonably determined the constitutionally significant facts, thus violating …
18-5233 Edgar Alejandro Radillo, et al. v. Rosemary Ndoh, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-07-13 Denied IFP batson-challenge civil-rights due-process equal-protection Fourteenth-Amendment jury-selection minority-jurors non-minority-jurors peremptory-challenges prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-motivation racial-discrimination Sixth-Amendment Batson-challenge
18-5152 Rodney Howard v. United States Third Circuit 2018-07-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky criminal-procedure equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes prima-facie prima-facie-case prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination Does a black defendant make a prima facie showing of discriminatory use of peremptory strikes under Batson's first step when he demonstrates that the …
18-5118 Shane K. Floyd v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-fairness jury-deliberations jury-selection presumption-of-innocence racial-bias sixth-amendment strickland-standard Whether racial bias can infect a jury's deliberations and decisions, violating the right to a fair trial
24A409 Richard Bernard Moore v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections South Carolina Denied batson-challenge death-penalty equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination Whether the State's peremptory strikes of Black jurors in a capital murder trial violated the Equal Protection Clause under Batson v. Kentucky by impe…
24A286 Marcellus S. Williams v. David Vandergriff, Warden Eighth Circuit Denied batson-violation equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-strike prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination Whether the prosecutor's racially discriminatory peremptory strike of a Black juror during Mr. Williams' capital trial violated his constitutional rig…