jury-unanimity

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25-6241 Vincent Gerald Garcia v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-11-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy criminal-procedure jury-unanimity plain-error sixth-amendment vicar-prosecution Whether a district court commits plain error and violates a defendant's Sixth Amendment right to a unanimous jury verdict when it fails to give a spec…
25-5219 Mao Hin v. California California 2025-07-29 Denied IFP capital-sentencing constitutional-rights death-penalty jury-unanimity reasonable-doubt sentencing-procedure Whether California's capital-sentencing scheme violates the Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments because it fails to require the jury to fi…
24-882 Derrick Chatman v. Mississippi Mississippi 2025-02-18 Denied Response Waived constitutional-law criminal-procedure direct-remand jury-unanimity lesser-included-offense sixth-amendment Does a state court direct-remand rule that infers jury unanimity on a lesser-included offense violate the Sixth Amendment, where the jury's verdict wa…
24-5987 Brandon Howard Mauk v. Michigan Michigan 2024-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure jury-unanimity multiple-acts state-supreme-court verdict-violation Does Michigan violate a defendant's constitutional right to jury unanimity when the State Supreme Court refuses to recognize the difference in unanimi…
24-404 Ji Chaoqun v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-10-10 Denied Response Waived criminal-statute federal-criminal-law foreign-agent jury-unanimity prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation Must a jury unanimously decide which act a defendant committed subject to the direction or control of a foreign government to convict under 18 U.S.C. …
24A298 James Herard v. Florida Florida 2024-09-27 Presumed Complete capital-sentencing constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment jury-unanimity Whether the Eighth Amendment requires jury unanimity in capital sentencing decisions and whether a judge may impose a death sentence after a non-unani…
24-5368 Joseph Roach v. Amy Robey, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP accomplice-liability criminal-conviction due-process jackson-v-virginia jury-unanimity sixth-circuit Whether a defendant was denied due process and a unanimous jury verdict when convicted under alternative theories of culpability and affirmed by the S…
23-7266 Nathaniel O. Robinson v. Louisiana Louisiana 2024-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure direct-review fourteenth-amendment griffin-v-kentucky jury-unanimity ramos-v-louisiana sixth-amendment state-proceedings Whether a conviction can be obtained, in light of Ramos v. Louisiana holding that the Sixth Amendment requires a unanimous jury to convict, when the r…
23-6944 In Re Bob Eugene West 2024-03-08 Denied IFP 14th-amendment due-process federal-relief habeas-corpus jury-unanimity oregon post-conviction-relief ramos-ruling ramos-v-louisiana state-inmate Can an Oregon State inmate file a federal habeas corpus petition to vacate a conviction under Ramos v. Louisiana?
23-242 Jonathan M. Martinez v. United States Armed Forces 2023-09-14 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial jury-unanimity military-conviction military-justice sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict uniform-code-military-justice Whether military convictions for serious offenses must be unanimous
23-5454 Moses Crowe v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-08-25 Denied IFP confrontation-clause confrontation-right criminal-procedure cross-examination drug-abuse due-process intoxication jury-unanimity methamphetamine witness-credibility Whether Petitioner's constitutional right to confrontation was violated
22-7512 Eric Scott Kindley v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-05-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2412 causation civil-rights constitutional-error criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process false-evidence government-agents judicial-review jury-unanimity Whether the jury needs to be unanimous, to decide on elements that are the causation of deprivation under 18 USC 2412, and whether specifically instru…
22-7071 Elmer D. Baker v. Ron Neal, Warden Seventh Circuit 2023-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights directed-verdict due-process ex-post-facto jurisdiction jury-unanimity state-jurisdiction statute-of-limitations verdict-direction Is it a denial of due process when a state imports a due process right and then acquiesces the defendant was denied this right and then arbitrarily ta…
22-6819 Donald Dillbeck v. Florida, et al. Florida 2023-02-20 Denied Amici (1)IFP atkins-v-florida eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intellectual-disability jury-unanimity medical-community medical-consensus neurobehavioral-disorder prenatal-alcohol-exposure Whether a state court's refusal to consider a defendant's claim that he is exempt from execution under Atkins v. Virginia due to Neurobehavioral Disor…
22-5956 Charles Wallace v. Louisiana Louisiana 2022-11-01 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jury-trial jury-unanimity retroactivity state-constitution state-jurisdiction Whether non-unanimous jury instructions are constitutional
22-5746 Chrystal Clues-Alexander v. Louisiana Louisiana 2022-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-waiver criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea jury-unanimity plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal ramos-retroactivity retroactivity right-to-jury-trial unanimous-jury Whether this Court's decision in Ramos v. Louisiana, 590 U.S. __ (2020), provides grounds for a defendant to withdraw her pre-Ramos plea of guilty bef…
22-81 Nathaniel Lambert v. Louisiana Louisiana 2022-07-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process griffith-standard jury-unanimity prejudice rehabilitation sentencing-delay What test applies to excessive sentencing delay claims under the Due Process Clause, including whether prejudice is required and what prejudice counts…
21-7830 Daniel Paul Starr v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma Tenth Circuit 2022-05-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-communication judicial-misconduct jury-instructions jury-note jury-unanimity trial-conduct Whether the trial court erred in allowing the jury to convict the defendant on a lesser charge (misdemeanor) despite the indictment for a felony charg…
21-7207 Robert Brewer v. New York New York 2022-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP accomplice-liability constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process jury-unanimity precedent state-courts supreme-court-precedent Whether Saad v Arizona continues to apply following Ramos v. Louisiana and Edwards v Vannoy
21-1135 Goyko Gustav Kuburovich v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-02-16 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy bankruptcy-fraud criminal-procedure due-process false-statements federal-prosecution fraud jury-instructions jury-unanimity statutory-interpretation sua-sponte Whether a district court has an obligation to issue a sua sponte jury unanimity instruction when a criminal defendant is prosecuted for a single count…
21-6391 Hai A. Duong v. Darryl Vannoy, Warden Louisiana 2021-11-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-unanimity legislative-amendment non-unanimous-verdict sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation Can Louisiana's 1997 and 1998 legislative amendments to La. R.S. 14:42 (C) and (D) qualify, absent a constitutional amendment, as the attendant provis…
21-6367 Dacoby Reshard Wooten v. Florida Florida 2021-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP alternative-theories criminal-procedure felony-murder first-degree-murder jury-unanimity premeditated-murder sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment requires jury unanimity as to whether a defendant committed premeditated murder or felony murder when the state proceeds o…
21-483 David Klug v. Florida Florida 2021-10-01 Denied Response Waived charging-document criminal-charging due-process fifth-amendment jury-unanimity lewd-and-lascivious-molestation sexual-offenses sixth-amendment Whether a state prosecuting authority may bundle several single-act offenses concerning the lewd and lascivious molestation of a minor into the same s…
21-5770 Arthur Perrault v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-09-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 403-balancing-test due-process fair-trial federal-rules-of-evidence jury-unanimity sexual-misconduct Does the uncertainty engendered by the lack of uniform application of Federal Rules of Evidence 413/414 and the 403 balancing test permit district cou…
21-5192 Gilberto Antonio Guillen-Hernandez v. Texas Texas 2021-07-23 Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-requirement continuous-sexual-abuse criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process jury-conviction jury-unanimity sexual-abuse sixth-amendment Does the constitutional requirement of jury unanimity, contained within the Sixth Amendment of the United States Constitution, require a jury to be un…
20-8450 Ronald Anthony Gomez v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-06-30 Denied IFP apodaca-v-oregon criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jury-unanimity schad-v-arizona sixth-amendment Does a state trial court's failure to give a unanimity instruction to a jury in a criminal trial raise a debatable valid claim of the denial of a cons…
20-1571 Andrew Raymond and Brian Requena v. United States Second Circuit 2021-05-12 Denied Response Waived analogue-act analogue-enforcement-act controlled-substances criminal-procedure due-process jury-unanimity sixth-amendment vagueness-doctrine Whether the Controlled Substances Analogue Enforcement Act of 1986 is void for vagueness
20-7017 Dennis Martin Beyer, Jr. v. Texas Texas 2021-02-02 Denied IFP constitutional-requirement continuous-sexual-abuse criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process jury-conviction jury-unanimity sixth-amendment texas-court-of-criminal-appeals Does the constitutional requirement of jury unanimity require a jury to be unanimous as to specific acts of sexual abuse in order to convict a defenda…
20-6935 Melvin Wofford v. Jeffrey Woods, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-question criminal-trial deliberating-juror deliberation-process judicial-discretion juror-dismissal juror-removal jury-unanimity merits-of-the-case sixth-amendment unanimous-jury-verdict Does a trial court violate the defendant's Sixth Amendment right to a unanimous jury verdict when the record establishes a reasonable possibility that…
20-973 Ricky Haywood-Watson v. Texas Texas 2021-01-15 Denied apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-guarantee continuous-sexual-abuse criminal-procedure jury-unanimity ramos-v-louisiana richardson-v-united-states schad-v-arizona sexual-abuse texas-penal-code Does Section 21.02(d) of the Texas Penal Code violate the constitutional guarantee of jury unanimity?
20-6652 Rex Duane Stephenson v. Brandon Kelly, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Ninth Circuit 2020-12-18 Denied IFP collateral-review constitutional-rights criminal-trial direct-appeal federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-unanimity post-conviction-relief ramos-v-louisiana sixth-amendment Whether counsel provides ineffective assistance
20-6515 Anthony Ponticelli v. Florida Florida 2020-12-03 Denied IFP capital-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-state jury-unanimity retroactivity statutory-construction substantive-law Whether the Florida Supreme Court's statutory construction in Hurst v. State constitutes substantive law, and if so, whether the Due Process Clause of…
20-6218 Terance Valentine v. Florida Florida 2020-11-05 Denied IFP constitutional-waiver criminal-procedure death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-fact-finding jury-unanimity ring-v-arizona Whether a waiver to an advisory, non-unanimous jury verdict lacking in any fact finding requirement under a death penalty scheme later determined to b…
20-5848 Richard Bridgeman Gustafson v. Oregon Oregon 2020-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-unanimity ramos-v-louisiana sixth-amendment state-trial-procedure Whether a criminal trial in the State of Oregon that did not guarantee a unanimous verdict, leading the defendant to choose a bench trial, was unconst…
20-419 Stephen Robert Deck v. California California 2020-10-01 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment attempt attempt-offense custodial-arrest due-process jury-instructions jury-unanimity right-to-counsel search-warrant temporal-element unanimity Whether the temporal direct step element of an attempt offense may be changed by jury instructions
20-5610 Eric J. Brown v. Louisiana Louisiana 2020-09-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure direct-appeal jury-unanimity juvenile-offenders retroactivity sentencing Whether a defendant whose conviction was final before Ramos v. Louisiana, but who is still on direct appeal from resentencing, is entitled to the bene…
20-5363 Reginald Jones v. Louisiana Louisiana 2020-08-14 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony-conviction firearm jury-trial jury-unanimity obstruction-of-justice ramos-precedent ramos-v-louisiana Whether the Petitioner is entitled to be released from prison due to the State's failure to prove guilt by a unanimous jury verdict as required by Ram…
20-5058 Randy Estevez v. United States Second Circuit 2020-07-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process felony-enhancement firearm-possession jury-instructions jury-unanimity sentencing sentencing-reasonableness u-s-sentencing-guidelines unanimity Whether the district court erred in not instructing the jury that it should be unanimous on the date and location of his alleged possession of the fir…
19-8845 Charles Grover Brant v. Florida Florida 2020-06-29 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fact-finding fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-trial jury-unanimity jury-waiver Whether a waiver to an advisory, non-unanimous jury verdict lacking in any fact finding requirement under a death penalty scheme later determined to b…
19-8711 Willie Dunn v. Louisiana Louisiana 2020-06-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment state-courts Whether petitioner's conviction based upon a non-unanimous verdict violated the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution?
19-8688 Richard Dale Ingram, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-06-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP arkansas-law categorical-approach criminal-law divisibility divisibility-analysis eighth-circuit jury-unanimity mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states statutory-interpretation terroristic-threatening Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals incorrectly applied the divisibility analysis prescribed in Mathis v. United States, 136 S. Ct. 2243 (2016…
19-8062 Troy Anthony LeBouef v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-amendments criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict Was LeBouef entitled to a unanimous jury verdict under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution?
19-7236 John Joseph DeBlase v. Alabama Alabama 2020-01-09 Denied IFP capital-case codefendant confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process jury-unanimity sixth-amendment waiver Do the Sixth Amendment and the Due Process Clause permit, in a capital case, the admission of statements of a nontestifying codefendant, acknowledged …
19-6720 James Dwayne Myers v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-11-22 Denied IFP criminal-law criminal-procedure divisibility divisibility-analysis eighth-circuit jury-unanimity mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement state-law statutory-interpretation May a court properly apply the divisibility analysis prescribed in Mathis v. United States, 136 S. Ct. 2243 (2016), without considering the question o…
19-6684 Rakeem Asaad Davis v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-19 GVR IFP 18-usc-922g 6th-amendment 6th-amendment-right-to-jury-trial charged-theories-of-prosecution criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy due-process felon-in-possession jury-unanimity knowledge-element rehaif-v-united-states richardson-standard richardson-v-united-states sixth-amendment unanimous-jury-verdict uncharged-theories-of-prosecution Does the failure to require a unanimous jury verdict on either charged or uncharged theories of prosecution violate the Sixth Amendment right to a ver…
19-6235 Scott Thomas Erskine v. California California 2019-10-10 Denied IFP aggravating-circumstances capital-sentencing constitutional-amendments cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process equal-protection jury-trial jury-unanimity narrowing-requirement sentencing Does California's death penalty statute violate the Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments?
19-5989 Errol Victor, Sr. v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-09-18 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP 13th-amendment 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-provision direct-review due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-unanimity retroactivity state-constitutional-law thirteenth-amendment verdict-retroactivity Whether it denies defendant's Fourteenth and Thirteenth Amendment Rights while on direct review not to retroactively vacate a non-unanimous jury verdi…
19-5817 Kendrick Taylor v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-09-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP apodaca-v-oregon criminal-procedure criminal-trial fourteenth-amendment incorporation-doctrine johnson-v-louisiana jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent unanimous-verdict Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial requires an unanimous jury verdict and, if so, would that unanimity requirement be required in state…
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…
19-5693 Harlow Hutchinson v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-08-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict Whether Petitioner was constitutionally entitled to a unanimous jury under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constituti…
19-5450 Paul Suarez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-924c appeal conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure drug-trafficking firearm-offense jury-unanimity law-of-the-case legal-sufficiency manifest-injustice sufficiency-of-evidence Did the panel err by holding that the 'law of the case' governed its decision in holding that the evidence was legally sufficient to sustain the petit…
19-5301 Aaron Orlando Richards v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-07-25 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection first-degree-murder jury-trial jury-unanimity jury-verdict legislative-amendment non-unanimous-verdict prosecutorial-discretion unanimous-verdict Did the appellate court err in its interpretation of Apodaca and Bertrand?
19-5260 Michael Levon Jackson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-19 GVR IFP 18-usc-922g acquittal constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process element-of-crime jury-instruction jury-instructions jury-unanimity reasonable-doubt sentencing Does an inaccurate jury instruction on an element of a crime violate due process of law?
18-9806 Karlynn Romeo Tones, Donta Lyvoid Blackmon, and Arvin Terrill Carmen v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-conspiracy criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment indictment-specificity jury-instructions jury-unanimity trial-evidence unanimity Do federal criminal defendants have a constitutional right to a specific unanimity instruction requiring the jury to unanimously define the duration a…
18-9787 Jace Crehan v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-06-25 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-jury unanimous-verdict Whether Petitioner was constitutionally entitled to a unanimous jury under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constituti…
18-9754 Daniel Teitelbaum v. Neil Turner, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-06-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation constitutional-violation dna dna-evidence due-process fbi-codis-database guilty-verdict ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel jury-unanimity new-evidence prejudice procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct Did flaws in the FBI's CODIS DNA database prejudice the defendant and lead to a guilty verdict?
18-9693 Kevin Sheppard v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-06-17 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict Whether Petitioner was constitutionally entitled to a unanimous jury under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constituti…
18-9464 Charles William Finney v. Florida Florida 2019-05-29 Denied IFP aggravating-factors capital-murder capital-sentencing death-penalty florida-constitution jury-trial jury-unanimity mitigating-circumstances sixth-amendment Whether Florida's capital sentencing scheme violates the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial by requiring the jury to find only aggravating factors …
18-9463 Michael Joseph Brooks, Jr. v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-05-29 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-amendments criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict Whether Petitioner was constitutionally entitled to a unanimous jury under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constituti…
18-9252 Kevin Foster v. Florida Florida 2019-05-15 Denied IFP capital-murder capital-punishment death-penalty death-sentence due-process eighth-amendment first-degree-murder jury-findings jury-unanimity reasonable-doubt unanimous-verdict Whether Mr. Foster's death sentence is unconstitutional because it violates the Eighth Amendment and the Due Process Clause
18-9236 Amy Gonzalez and David Thomas Matusiewicz v. United States Third Circuit 2019-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2261a,overbreadth,free-speech,first-amendme 6th-amendment 6th-amendment-unanimity,criminal-procedure,jury-in 6th-amendment,5th-amendment,sentencing,jury-trial, actus-reus criminal-procedure criminal-procedure,evidence,character-evidence,pre criminal-procedure,evidence,polygraph,crane-v-kent criminal-procedure,jury-instructions,causation,act criminal-verdict due-process jury-instruction jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2261A is unconstitutionally ov Whether a person can be convicted for stalking res Whether Crane v. Kentucky 476 U.S. 683 690 (1986 Whether sentencing courts may continue to violate Whether the admissibility of a civil judicial opin Whether juries must unanimously agree on the actus reus element of offenses
18-9130 Shaun Allen Dick v. Oregon Oregon 2019-05-03 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment incorporation incorporation-doctrine jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-jury-verdict unanimous-verdict Does the Fourteenth Amendment fully incorporate the Sixth Amendment guarantee of a unanimous verdict?
18-9117 Scotty Garnell Morrow v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Georgia 2019-05-02 Denied IFP death-penalty death-sentence due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida judicial-fact-finding jury-trial jury-unanimity ring-v-arizona sentencing sixth-amendment Does a death sentence imposed by a judge who made fact-findings not made unanimously by the jury who recommended a death sentence comport with Hurst a…
18-9025 Phillip Newton v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-04-29 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP apodaca-v-oregon criminal-trial fourteenth-amendment johnson-v-louisiana jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial requires an unanimous jury verdict and, if so, would that unanimity requirement be required in state…
18-8858 Aspen Warren v. Texas Texas 2019-04-16 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency jury-unanimity manner-and-means murder murder-conviction state-criminal-law state-statutes statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence Whether there must be sufficient evidence to convict under each manner or means alleged in a murder case where under state statutes a jury need not be…
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?
18-8593 Dontae Callen v. Alabama Alabama 2019-03-27 Denied IFP affidavit appellate-review criminal-procedure death-penalty fourth-amendment jury-unanimity probable-cause search-warrant separate-affidavit Where an affidavit does not support a finding of probable cause for the issuance of a search warrant, can a reviewing court consider information from …
18-8300 Paul Glen Everett v. Florida Florida 2019-03-06 Denied IFP capital-case capital-punishment constitutional-defect harmless-error harmless-error-review hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-error structural-defect structural-error trial-mechanism Whether the Sixth Amendment error identified by this Court in Hurst v. Florida is a structural defect that infects the entire constitutionality of the…
18-8090 Edward J. Zakrzewski, II v. Florida Florida 2019-02-22 Denied IFP capital-punishment criminal-procedure death-penalty eighth-amendment florida-supreme-court fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-state jury-unanimity retroactive-application retroactivity savings-clause substantive-law Whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments require retroactive application of the Florida Supreme Court's decision in Hurst v. State to capital defe…
18-7428 Harry Jones v. Florida Florida 2019-01-15 Denied IFP arbitrary-cutoff capital-murder capital-punishment death-penalty death-penalty-retroactivity eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity retroactivity Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity rule as to violations pursuant to Hurst v. Florida violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendm…
18-763 Chaka Fattah, Sr. v. United States Third Circuit 2018-12-14 Denied 6th-amendment circuit-split criminal-procedure deliberations due-process evidence judicial-discretion juror-removal jury-unanimity misconduct-standard standard-of-review Whether a district court must determine that there is no possibility that allegations of juror misconduct stem from the juror's view of the evidence t…
18-6956 Jason Dirk Walton v. Florida, et al. Florida 2018-12-07 Denied IFP capital-murder criminal-law due-process eighth-amendment first-degree-murder jury-unanimity resentencing retrospective-application retrospective-law sentencing-elements substantive-criminal-law When changes in a state's substantive criminal law apply retrospectively to cases involving homicides committed in 1981 and 1982, but not to cases inv…
18-6882 Willie Seth Crain, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2018-11-30 Denied IFP remedies prior constitutional defects in capital which requires unanimous jury findings of aggrava advisory-sentencing-panel aggravating-circumstances caldwell-v-mississippi capital-sentencing civil-rights constitutional-error death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing due-process harmless-error Hurst-decision hurst-v-florida jury-instructions jury-role jury-unanimity mitigating-circumstances sentencing sentencing-procedure Whether the Hurst error is harmless in light of the jury's diminished sense of responsibility as an advisory panel under Caldwell v. Mississippi
18-6800 Robert Ryan Powell v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP constructive-amendment double-jeopardy fifth-amendment grand-jury indictment jury-instructions jury-unanimity plain-error sixth-amendment statute-of-limitations Where jury instructions lack the dates and timeframes specified in the indictment, do the jury instructions constructively amend the indictment, and t…
18-6744 Wesley Wayne Schaefer v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Criminal Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-11-20 Denied IFP consequences criminal-procedure de-novo-review double-jeopardy double-jeopardy,lesser-included-offense,state-law, due-process due-process,criminal-procedure,plea-bargaining,eff due-process,equal-protection,fourteenth-amendment, due-process,grand-jury,fifth-amendment,fourteenth- effective-assistance-of-counsel,plea-bargaining,du federal-courts,state-courts,de-novo-review,mixed-q grand-jury guilty-plea ineffective-assistance jury-unanimity plea-bargaining silent-record sixth-amendment,jury-trial,unanimous-verdict,due-p Whether a Court may assume, from a silent record, the defendant was sufficiently made aware of the consequences of his guilty plea?
18-6378 Robert Ira Peede v. Florida Florida 2018-10-18 Denied IFP arbitrary-cutoff capital-murder capital-punishment death-penalty death-penalty-retroactivity due-process eighth-amendment evolving-standards-of-decency fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity retroactivity Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity rule as to violations pursuant to Hurst v. Florida violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendm…
18-6175 Victor Tony Jones v. Florida Florida 2018-10-02 Denied IFP 1981-homicide 1990-homicide capital-murder criminal-law death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing,hurst-v-state,jury-unanim hurst-v-state jury-unanimity reasonable-doubt retroactive-application retroactivity substantive-criminal-law Given that the elements of capital murder identified by the Florida Supreme Court in Hurst v. State are being applied in a prosecution for a 1981 homi…
18-6115 Jose Antonio Jimenez v. Florida Florida 2018-09-27 Denied IFP capital-murder criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process elements-of-offense hurst-v-state jury-unanimity retrospective-application Whether Petitioner's death sentence can remain intact even though his jury was not instructed that the State had to prove all of the elements of capit…
18-5841 Juan David Rodriguez v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2018-08-31 Denied IFP 1981-homicide capital-murder death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing due-process hurst-v-state jury-unanimity reasonable-doubt retroactivity substantive-criminal-law Whether the elements of capital murder identified by the Florida Supreme Court in Hurst v. State apply to a 1981 homicide prosecution
18-5753 James Pello v. Dushan Zatecky, Superintendent, Pendleton Correctional Facility Seventh Circuit 2018-08-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-error due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-jury-verdicts Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, along with the Indiana State Court of last resort, have entered a decision in conf…
18-5648 Anthony Lamarca v. Florida Florida 2018-08-20 Denied IFP apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-case death-penalty eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-cruel-and-unusual-punishment fourteenth-amendment fourteenth-amendment-due-process hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity retroactivity ring-v-arizona Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity rule as to violations pursuant to Hurst v. Florida violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendm…
18-5441 Milford Wade Byrd v. Florida Florida 2018-08-02 Denied IFP capital-murder criminal-procedure death-penalty ex-post-facto hurst-v-state jury-unanimity retroactive-application retroactivity Whether a death sentence can remain intact when the jury did not unanimously find the elements of capital murder proven beyond a reasonable doubt
18-5376 Mark Allen Geralds v. Florida Florida 2018-07-27 Denied IFP arbitrary-cutoff capital-murder capital-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity retroactivity Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity rule as to violations pursuant to Hurst v. Florida violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendm…
18-5354 Darryl Brian Barwick v. Florida Florida 2018-07-25 Denied IFP arbitrary-cutoff capital-murder capital-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity retroactivity Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity rule as to violations pursuant to Hurst v. Florida violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendm…
18-5352 Paul Anthony Brown v. Florida Florida 2018-07-25 Denied IFP arbitrary-cutoff capital-punishment constitutional-rights death-penalty death-penalty-retroactivity due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity retroactivity Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity rule as to violations pursuant to Hurst v. Florida violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendm…
18-5309 Maurice McLain v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-07-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP cooperator-testimony currier-v-virginia double-jeopardy double-jeopardy-clause jury-unanimity physical-evidence plea-agreement rico rico-prosecution rutledge-v-united-states santobello-v-new-york uncorroborated-testimony Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause and plea agreement were violated by a second prosecution,whether the verdict conflicts with physical evidence and r…
18-5174 Michael Allen Griffin v. Florida Florida 2018-07-09 Denied IFP aggravating-factors capital-murder civil-procedure civil-rights due-process ex-post-facto jury-unanimity patent retroactivity standing takings Whether Petitioner's death sentences for two 1994 homicides can remain intact given that his jury did not unanimously find the elements of capital mur…
18-5051 Samuel Jason Derrick v. Florida Florida 2018-06-29 Denied IFP arbitrary-cutoff capital-murder capital-punishment death-penalty death-penalty-retroactivity due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity retroactivity sentencing Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity rule as to violations pursuant to Hurst v. Florida violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendm…