jury-waiver
7 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-5184 | Matthew Lee Caylor v. Florida | Florida | 2025-07-24 | Dismissed | IFP | aggravating-factors capital-sentencing constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process jury-waiver | Whether accepting a defendant's waiver of jury trial rights in a death penalty case violates fundamental constitutional protections when based on misi… |
| 23-5660 | Taberon Dave Honie v. Robert Powell, Warden | Tenth Circuit | 2023-09-27 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (2)IFP | capital-sentencing constitutional-rights federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-waiver prejudice-standard state-statutory-right waiver | When a capital defendant on federal habeas review challenges as ineffective his counsel's performance as it relates to the defendant's waiver of a sta… |
| 23A29 | Taberon Dave Honie v. Robert Powell, Warden | Tenth Circuit | 2023-07-12 | Presumed Complete | capital-sentencing circuit-split habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-waiver strickland-prejudice | Whether the standard for assessing Strickland prejudice in capital cases involving counsel's deficient advice to waive a defendant's statutory right t… | |
| 22-5513 | Jerome Jenkins, Jr. v. South Carolina | South Carolina | 2022-09-06 | Denied | IFP | capital-punishment capital-sentencing due-process hearsay-rules hurst-v-florida judicial-bias jury-sentencing jury-waiver mitigating-evidence plea-bargaining state-statute | Could a South Carolina trial judge who had told Petitioner he would sentence him to death if he pled guilty still rule, consistent with Hurst v. Flori… |
| 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… |
| 18-8432 | Kelly Foust v. Ohio | Ohio | 2019-03-15 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | capital-defendant capital-punishment capital-sentencing constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure death-penalty hurst-precedent hurst-v-florida jury jury-waiver sixth-amendment | Does Ohio's death penalty scheme violate the Sixth Amendment right to a jury as explained in Hurst v. Florida? |
| 18-113 | Jeremiah Rodgers v. Florida | Florida | 2018-07-25 | Denied | Amici (1) | constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process hurst-v-florida jury-trial jury-waiver retroactivity sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment waiver | Does waiving a state-law right to have a jury make an advisory sentencing recommendation constitute a knowing and intelligent waiver of the federal co… |