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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
24-7351 Terry Pitchford v. Burl Cain, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-06-03 Granted Amici (10)Relisted (8)IFP batson-challenge capital-punishment equal-protection habeas-corpus peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination Does clearly established federal law require reversal of a state appellate court's denial of relief from a capital prosecutor's discriminatory exercis…
24-6336 Christopher Michael Montoya v. Arizona Arizona 2025-01-17 Denied IFP capital-case constitutional-rights due-process jury-impartiality morgan-precedent peremptory-strikes Did the Arizona Supreme Court deprive Mr. Montoya of the right to an impartial jury and to due process of law when it affirmed the trial court's denia…
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…
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…
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…
23-7167 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 …
23-5682 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 …
22-6951 Zachariah Marcyniuk v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2023-03-07 Denied IFP capital-punishment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-fairness judicial-misconduct peremptory-strikes procedural-default state-officials supervisory-powers Whether cause exists to excuse procedural default when state officials made misleading statements that hindered counsel's compliance with state's proc…
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?
22-6107 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…
22-5679 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…
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…
21-7722 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
21-7475 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
21-1110 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…
21-6661 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 …
21-5649 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…
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
20-7758 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…
20-5987 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…
20-5441 Craig Saunders v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit 2020-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson civil-rights constitutional-challenge cross-examination federal-procedure habeas-corpus peremptory-strikes rule-60b Whether reasonable jurists could debate the limitation on cross-examination of prosecutor about peremptory strikes in Batson claim
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…
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…
19-7745 Willie B. Smith, III v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-24 Denied Relisted (3)IFP batson-challenge collateral-review death-penalty death-penalty-law hall-v-florida intellectual-disability moore-v-texas peremptory-strikes prosecutor-conduct prosecutorial-discretion retroactive-application retroactivity substantive-rules Whether Hail v. Florida and Moore v. Texas apply retroactively to cases on collateral review
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?
19-5072 Troy Lee Bridges v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied Relisted (2)IFP batson-challenge certificate-of-appealability fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel peremptory-strikes prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review voir-dire Did the Fifth Circuit err in deferring to the Federal court finding that Mr. Bridges was not prejudiced by his trial counsel,findings and the prosecut…
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
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
18-7094 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
18-6306 Amy Hebert v. James Rogers, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-10-16 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP comparative-juror-analysis due-process equal-protection gender-discrimination ineffective-assistance-of-counsel j.e.b.-v.-alabama jury-discrimination miller-el-v.-dretke peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes When reviewing a claim of gender discrimination in violation of J.E.B. v. Alabama, is comparative juror analysis appropriate even where the male and f…
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…
18-5152 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 …
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…