peremptory-challenge

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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 During voir dire, the trial court granted the defendant's peremptory challenge against Dinyal Khan, a man born in Pakistan, after expressing concern t…
24A490 Reginald Keith Clark v. Colorado Colorado 2024-11-15 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights equal-protection fair-trial jury-selection peremptory-challenge racial-bias Question not identified.
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…
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 Question not identified.
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…
22-5187 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 Review is requested to clarify whether there is a single deferential standard of appellate review for Sixth Amendment claims arising under Batson v. K…
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 should be considered a protected class, and whether the exclusion of all young potential jurors violates the Equal Protection Clause. Whe…
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 for the most part by a seat number, which number keeps changing as peremptories are exercised …
20-5984 Ricardo Woods v. Brian Cook, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky confrontation-clause constitutional-law dying-declaration giles-v-california peremptory-challenge sixth-amendment testimonial-statement trial-procedure This case presents two critical questions of constitutional law, one related to the introduction of a suspect identification, made by a profoundly par…
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 (1) Whether, in an analysis under Batson v Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986), the prosecutor's peremptory challenge of Hispanic prospective jurors was just…
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 1. Whether, by hypothesizing reasons the prosecutors might have had to use half of their peremptory challenges to excuse all four prospective African-…
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 Issue 1: DESTRUCTION of EVIDENCE Whether the state violated petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment right to due process and a fair trial when it released p…
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 1. Whether qualified persons of color may constitutionally be stricken from juries based solely on prior experiences of being stopped for Driving Whil…
19-7061 Charles Edward Smith v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-27 Granted 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 In Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, 97 (1986), the Court set forth a three-step protocol to prevent racial discrimination in jury selection. It applie…
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 OF APPEALS ERRED AND ABUSED ITS DISCRETION IN HOLDING THAT PETITIONER HAD RECEIVED INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL BY COU…
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 1. 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 th…
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 I. Does a prosecutor's peremptory challenge of a prospective African-American juror based on the juror's perception of racial profiling by law enforce…
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, 439 U.S. 357, 364, 99 5.Ct.664, 668, 58 L.E.cf.2c1 579 (1979), IF MET ESTABLISH A SYSTEMATIC EXCLUSION FOR C…
18-8397 Michael Victory v. California Board of Parole Hearings, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP balisok civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection impartial-decision-maker larkin mcclure murchison murchison-v-michigan parole parole-hearing peremptory-challenge quasi-judicial quasi-judicial-immunity DID DEFENDANTS ENGAGE IN A SUB-ROSA POLICY THAT SYSTEMICALLY AND/OR INDIVIDUALLY IMPOSE PRE-DETERMINED & PRO FORMA DECISIONS DENYING PAROLE BY A QUASI…
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 I. Because of the unique nature of a cell phone, the intrusion into the owner of the device will be ong oing as long as the device has the ability to …
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 A United States Department of Justice investigation concluded that law enforcement in defendant's community systemically engages in racist police prac…