| 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 |
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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 |
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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… |