pretrial-publicity
6 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-7025 | Taylor Rene Parker v. Texas | Texas | 2026-03-12 | Pending | IFP | capital-punishment due-process pretrial-publicity sex-stereotypes sixth-amendment venue-transfer | This petition presents the following questions: 1. To protect the right to an impartial jury, the Sixth Amendment requires transferring venue when th… |
| 25-6642 | Jimmy ONeal Spencer v. Alabama | Alabama | 2026-01-22 | Pending | IFP | due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-selection pretrial-publicity sixth-amendment venue-change | In a capital case where the pretrial publicity was extensive, gruesome, and negative, including statements by the current Attorney General that the Ji… |
| 22-6821 | James Mammone v. Charlotte Jenkins, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2023-02-21 | Denied | IFP | change-of-venue fair-trial habeas-corpus prejudice-presumption presumption-of-prejudice pretrial-publicity rideau-v-louisiana sixth-amendment | In determining whether to presume prejudice under Rideau and Skilling, are courts permitted to consider (1) the defendant's role in creating the pretr… |
| 21-6147 | Joshua Komisarjevsky v. Connecticut | Connecticut | 2021-11-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-prejudice actual-prejudice-analysis emotional-nature-of-case guilty-verdict jury-selection presumed-prejudice-analysis presumption-of-prejudice pretrial-publicity venue-change voir-dire | 1. What consideration, if any, must courts give the following factors in their presumption-of-prejudice analysis: (a) a verdict finding the defendant … |
| 19-5122 | David Alan Westerfield v. California | California | 2019-07-09 | Denied | IFP | capital-trial de-novo-review due-process due-process-review fourth-amendment independent-review jury-sequestration polygraph-evidence pretrial-publicity probable-cause sheppard-v-maxwell standard-of-review | A. Does the mandate announced in Sheppard v. Maxwell (1964) 384 U.S. 333 at page 362, that appellate courts, reviewing the measures taken by the trial… |
| 18-8319 | Jason Ray Flick v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. | Third Circuit | 2019-03-07 | Denied | IFP | abuse-of-discretion change-of-venue fair-trial fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury jury-impartiality presumption-of-prejudice pretrial-publicity sixth-amendment | I) Was petitioner denied a fair trial by trial courts abuse of discretion? II) Was petitioner denied effective assistance of counsel when counsel fai… |