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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6700 | Aita Gurung v. Vermont | Vermont | 2026-02-03 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights jury-selection peremptory-challenges public-trial sixth-amendment waller-standard | Whether the Sixth Amendment's public trial guarantee applies to the cause and peremptory challenges phase of jury selection or may the court exclude t… |
| 25-6350 | Samuel J. Barrett v. Walter Tripp, Warden, Wyoming Department of Corrections State Penitentiary, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2025-12-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights court-procedure covid-pandemic effective-counsel public-trial sixth-amendment | I. If a state denies a defendant a public trial by implementing a defective trial structure mech anism to limit the spread of a pandemic at the expens… |
| 25A656 | Brandon Z. Miller v. United States | Armed Forces | 2025-12-04 | Application | confrontation-clause military-evidence-rule presley-v-georgia public-trial sixth-amendment waller-v-georgia | Whether the automatic closure of Military Rule of Evidence 412 hearings without an individualized case-specific determination violates an accused's Si… | |
| 25-5537 | Benito M. Valdez v. United States | District of Columbia | 2025-09-03 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights courtroom-access judicial-discretion public-trial sixth-amendment trial-procedure | Is the Sixth Amendment right to a 'public trial' violated when a trial court conducts an entire trial phase at the bench with a white-noise machine to… |
| 25-5111 | Omar Agor, Jr. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-07-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights courtroom-closure judicial-discretion procedural-interpretation public-trial sixth-amendment | Whether there is an exception to the Sixth Amendment's right to a public trial for courtroom closure that district and circuit courts characterize as … |
| 24A1272 | Benito M. Valdez v. United States | District of Columbia | 2025-06-23 | Presumed Complete | first-amendment husher jury-selection public-trial sixth-amendment voir-dire | Whether the use of a white-noise machine during voir dire, without specific privacy concerns, violates a defendant's constitutional right to a public … | |
| 24-6466 | David Alcorn v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-02-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | court-of-appeals criminal-procedure defendants-rights district-court public-trial sixth-amendment | Whether The Court Of Appeals Erred By Upholding The District Court's Violation Of Defendants' Sixth Amendment Right To A Public Trial? |
| 24-5225 | Nidal M. Hasan v. United States | Armed Forces | 2024-08-05 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review automatic-reversal criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error public-trial structural-error waller-v-georgia weaver-v-massachusetts | Whether a court of appeals may afford no remedy for a public trial violation where the defendant objected to the closure at trial and raised the issue… |
| 24-5191 | Quentin Veneno, Jr. v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-07-31 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (22)IFP | constitutional-authority courtroom-closure criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure intratribal-conduct presley-v-georgia public-trial rule-51(b) rule-51b tribal-sovereignty | Does the constitutional mandate to consider alternatives to courtroom closure apply to audio/video streaming? |
| 23A1048 | Quentin Veneno, Jr. v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-05-23 | Presumed Complete | covid-19 criminal-procedure preservation public-trial right-to-access sixth-amendment | Whether a criminal defendant must object at the start of trial to preserve a Sixth Amendment challenge to a court's restrictions on public access to j… | |
| 23-6648 | Anthony Christopher Mendonca v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-02-01 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial first-amendment jury-selection plain-error-review public-trial public-trial-right sixth-amendment structural-error | Does the plainly erroneous exclusion of the public from jury selection in a criminal trial seriously affect the fairness, integrity, and public reputa… |
| 23-452 | Michigan v. Anthony Joseph Veach | Michigan | 2023-10-30 | Denied | 6th-amendment child-rape child-victim courtroom-closure public-trial sixth-amendment technicality trial-court trial-procedure victim waller-standard | Does the Sixth Amendment right to a public trial require subjecting the child rape victim to an automatic retrial based on a technicality when there a… | |
| 23-5516 | Angela Jane Johnson, et al. v. Victoria Fire and Casualty Company | Sixth Circuit | 2023-09-05 | Rehearing | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-procedure due-process judicial-process legal-review petition public-trial right-to-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment supreme-court writ-of-certiorari | Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a public trial applies to a criminal defendant's sentencing hearing |
| 23A175 | Phillip Charles Gibbs v. Becky Carl, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2023-08-25 | Presumed Complete | courtroom-closure public-trial sixth-amendment strickland-prejudice structural-error voir-dire | Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a public trial is violated by a trial court's closure of the courtroom during voir dire, and whether such a viola… | |
| 22-7673 | James Michael Wells v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-05-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | anonymous-jury apprendi-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-selection jury-trial public-trial restitution-order sixth-amendment | Whether a criminal defendant has a Sixth Amendment right to a public jury |
| 22-7632 | Kristofer D. Garrett v. Ohio | Ohio | 2023-05-24 | Denied | IFP | capital-defendant plain-error-test public-trial sixth-amendment structural-error substantial-rights | Does a state court finding of structural error, based on a violation of a capital defendant's Sixth Amendment right to a public trial, satisfy the pla… |
| 22-1115 | Chris Noel Tagunicar v. California | California | 2023-05-15 | Denied | bill-of-rights courtroom-access covid-19 covid-19-restrictions criminal-defendant first-amendment media public-trial sixth-amendment | Does the Sixth Amendment public trial right mean that members of the public have a right to be physically present in the courtroom during the trial, i… | |
| 22-7539 | Stacy Gallman v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-05-12 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | court-proceedings criminal-procedure cross-examination evidence evidence-ruling jury-selection public-trial sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth Amendment's public trial guarantee extends to proceedings after a jury has been seated in which the court rules on challenged eviden… |
| 22-1090 | Christopher David Tarpey v. Wyoming | Wyoming | 2023-05-09 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-waiver due-process fundamental-right personal-right public-trial sixth-amendment waiver | Is the Sixth Amendment right to a public trial a fundamental right that is personal to the defendant such that waiver must be on the record by the def… |
| 22-7239 | Edward Knight v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-04-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process felony hobbs-act in-person jury-trial public-trial sixth-amendment structural-error | Whether allowing a seated juror to appear virtually via Zoom in a federal felony trial is structural error violating the Fifth and Sixth Amendment rig… |
| 22-6642 | Leihinahina Sullivan v. Federal Bureau of Prisons, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-01-26 | Dismissed | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial jury-selection public-trial sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a public trial applies to jury selection proceedings |
| 22-6612 | Teri Bernard Johnson v. Randee Rewerts, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2023-01-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | capital-murder civil-rights courtroom-access criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mitigating-evidence public-trial right-to-counsel sentencing-phase | Whether the trial court violated the defendant's right to a public trial by removing spectators from the courtroom? |
| 22-6190 | Kevin Patrick Mallory v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-12-01 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights court-findings judicial-discretion overriding-interest partial-closure public-trial reasonable-alternatives sixth-amendment waller-standard waller-v-georgia | Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a public trial requires courts to make adequate findings before ordering a 'partial closure' restricting public a… |
| 22-6160 | Wayland Lynn Dilts v. Mike Brown, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2022-11-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aedpa aedpa-standard constitutional-violation courtroom-closure due-process public-trial public-trial-right sixth-amendment sixth-circuit weaver-v-massachusetts witness-testimony | Whether the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit improperly applied Weaver v. Massachusetts and AEDPA, and whether the Michigan trial court violated… |
| 22-5829 | Montana Barronette, Brandon Wilson, John Harrison, Linton Broughton, Terrell Sivells, Taurus Tillman, Timothy Floyd, and Dennis Pulley v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-10-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment courtroom-access criminal-procedure due-process family-attendance family-friends public-trial public-trial-clause sixth-amendment | Does the Public Trial Clause require heightened protection for courtroom access for defendants' family and friends? |
| 22-5789 | Rodney Donta Jackson v. Minnesota | Minnesota | 2022-10-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process juror-misconduct post-verdict-hearing post-verdict-hearings public-trial sixth-amendment trial-procedure | Does the Sixth Amendment right to a public trial extend to postverdict hearings investigating potential juror misconduct? |
| 22-318 | Ronald Tai Young Moon, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-10-05 | Denied | Response Waived | 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure forfeiture public-trial sixth-amendment waiver | What is the standard for finding a waiver (as opposed to mere forfeiture) of the Sixth Amendment right to a 'public trial?' |
| 22-5714 | Tracy Alan Zornes v. William Bolin, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2022-09-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act-of-1 courtroom-closure criminal-procedure partial-courtroom-closure presley-v-georgia public-trial sixth-amendment voir-dire waller-test waller-v-georgia | Whether the Sixth Amendment's public trial guarantee, within the review apparatus imposed by the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996… |
| 22-5650 | In Re Bobby D. Hathaway-Bey | 2022-09-22 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure first-amendment public-access public-trial sentencing sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth Amendment's right to a public trial and the First Amendment's right of public access to criminal trials apply to the sentencing phas… | |
| 22-5431 | Davante Turner v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-08-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-protections courtroom-closure due-process fair-trial government-agent public-trial sixth-amendment structural-error | Whether it is structural error and a violation of Petitioner's constitutional protections to a fair and public trial under the Sixth Amendment |
| 22-5300 | Michael G. Peters v. Andrew S. Hanen | Fifth Circuit | 2022-08-05 | Dismissed | IFP | 6th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-selection public-trial | Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a public trial applies to jury selection proceedings |
| 21-7847 | Michael G. Peters v. Texas, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2022-05-13 | Dismissed | IFP | access-to-courts civil-rights due-process free-speech public-trial standing | Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a public trial extends to the public's right to access court records and proceedings, and whether the government … |
| 21-7566 | Andrew James Johnston v. John Devries | Seventh Circuit | 2022-04-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial jury-selection public-trial sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a public trial applies to voir dire proceedings |
| 21-7484 | Hayze L. Schoonover v. Illinois | Illinois | 2022-03-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | courtroom-closure defendant-rights media-access overriding-interest public-trial sixth-amendment substantial-reason waller-test | Whether allowing the media to remain in the courtroom preserves a defendant's Sixth Amendment right to a public trial during a partial courtroom closu… |
| 21-5908 | Miguel Martinez v. Illinois | Illinois | 2021-10-06 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights criminal-law due-process evidence public-trial right-to-counsel | Whether Martínez's constitutional rights were violated at every stage of his trial when he was removed from the courtroom, denied his right to be pres… |
| 21-5697 | Shawn Mayreis v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2021-09-17 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights courtroom-closure due-process fundamental-unfairness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel public-trial right-to-counsel strickland voir-dire | Whether prejudice can be presumed when counsel's defective advice results in an unlawful and total closure of the courtroom to a defendant's family me… |
| 20-7889 | Anthony Sistrunk v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-04-29 | Denied | IFP | plain-error plain-error-review public-trial public-trial-right sixth-amendment structural-error sua-sponte-closure voir-dire waller-v-georgia | Whether the violation of the public trial provisions of the Sixth Amendment constitutes a structural error requiring automatic reversal under the plai… |
| 20-7868 | Douglas Kelly v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-04-28 | Denied | IFP | alleyne-precedent automatic-reversal direct-appeal drug-conspiracy jury-selection prejudice public-trial rico-conspiracy sentencing-enhancement structural-error | Whether, in the context of a structural error involving a public trial violation during jury selection where no trial objection was made but the error… |
| 20-7811 | Danny R. Pennebaker v. Randee Rewerts, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2021-04-20 | Denied | IFP | 6th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process public-trial standing | Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a public trial was violated when the trial court closed the courtroom to the public during the testimony of certa… |
| 20-7796 | Maurice Atkinson v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-04-19 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | body-armor criminal-procedure due-process false-testimony obstruction-of-justice public-trial sixth-amendment | Whether Maurice Atkinson was denied his Sixth Amendment right to a public trial |
| 20-7727 | Hasan Shareef v. Brian Palko, et al. | Third Circuit | 2021-04-13 | Rehearing | Relisted (2)IFP | 6th-amendment case-statement civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction jury-selection legal-reasoning public-trial statutory-provisions writ | Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a public trial applies to jury selection proceedings |
| 20-7521 | Lionel Lewis v. New York | New York | 2021-03-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights courtroom-closure criminal-procedure due-process public-trial sixth-amendment undercover-officer | Does an undercover officer's interest in potentially continuing undercover work in the general area where a defendant's family members reside categori… |
| 20-7240 | Joseph A. Hollahan v. Illinois | Illinois | 2021-02-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights courtroom-privacy due-process evidence-examination fair-trial jury-deliberations jury-room non-juror-presence public-trial sixth-amendment trial-procedure | Does the right to private and secret jury deliberations apply only in the jury room? |
| 20-7089 | Kemen Lavatos Taylor, II v. Tim Walz, Governor of Minnesota, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2021-02-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-scrutiny courtroom-closure courtroom-closures eighth-circuit-court-of-appeals judicial-procedure minnesota-supreme-court public-trial sixth-amendment triviality-exception | Whether the Sixth Amendment's public trial guarantee contains a triviality exception |
| 20-1086 | Randall G. Stephens v. Dow Chemical Company | Ohio | 2021-02-08 | Denied | access-to-courts constitutional-rights court-access due-process impartial-jury judicial-discretion public-trial speedy-trial vexatious-litigator | Whether Administrative Judge John J. Russo's, Journal Entry of April 15, 2019 and Judge Brendan J. Sheehan's, Journal Entry of February 26, 2020 denyi… | |
| 20-6869 | Tavarius D. Radford v. Illinois | Illinois | 2021-01-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | courtroom-closure direct-appeal ineffective-assistance partial-closure public-trial sixth-amendment structural-error waller-v-georgia weaver-v-massachusetts | whether-public-trial-right-violated |
| 20-6821 | Matthew Jamal Jackson v. Texas | Texas | 2021-01-12 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment prejudice pretrial-incarceration public-trial sixth-amendment speedy-trial | Whether petitioner was denied his Constitutional right to a Speedy Public Trial pursuant to the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 20-926 | Duane Ronald Belanus v. Montana | Montana | 2021-01-11 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights due-process juror-privacy public-trial sixth-amendment voir-dire | Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a public trial extends to the voir dire process, and whether the Sixth Amendment right to a public trial can be o… |
| 20-6778 | Richard Anderson v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-01-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof courtroom-closure criminal-procedure family-member-exclusion public-trial sixth-amendment triviality-exception waller-v-georgia | Whether there is a 'triviality exception' to the Sixth Amendment right to a public trial |
| 20-633 | Byron David Smith v. Jeff Titus, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2020-11-10 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) | aedpa antiterrorism-act criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process habeas-corpus public-trial sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth Amendment's public trial guarantee, within the AEDPA, applies to all phases of a criminal trial or only to pretrial suppression hear… |
| 20-5814 | Anthony Kinta Webb v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2020-09-25 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment jury-selection probable-cause public-trial search-and-seizure | Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a public trial applies to jury selection proceedings |
| 20-5605 | In Re Eric Wallace Koehl | 2020-09-08 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 6th-amendment civil-rights compulsory-process criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel public-trial racial-bias sixth-amendment | Does a criminal defendant have a constitutional right to a public trial under the 6th Amendment to the United States Constitution? | |
| 19-8421 | Gilbert Tello v. Texas | Texas | 2020-05-12 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-sentencing mental-health mental-health-records public-trial sentencing speedy-trial | whether the trial court violated petitioners right to a speedy and public trial |
| 19-7551 | Donald Arthur Herrington v. Virginia | Virginia | 2020-02-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 1st-Amendment case-management case-management-system civil-rights collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech public-trial separation-of-powers sixth-amendment | Was Petitioner's conviction a result of a procedure that violates 1st-Amendment, civil-rights, free-speech, public-trial, due-process |
| 19-7487 | Jonathan Blades v. United States | District of Columbia | 2020-01-29 | Denied | Amici (3)IFP | courtroom-access courtroom-proceedings due-process fair-trial public-trial right-to-public-trial sixth-amendment standing trial-transparency voir-dire white-noise | Does barring members of the public from hearing trial proceedings, without any special justification or findings, violate the right to a public trial … |
| 19-7426 | Joseph Njonge v. Margaret Gilbert, Superintendent | Ninth Circuit | 2020-01-28 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | courtroom-closure prejudice public-trial public-trial-right sixth-amendment trial-procedure triviality-exception voir-dire waller-v-georgia | Whether the 'triviality exception' to the Sixth Amendment public-trial right comports with Waller v. Georgia |
| 19-7359 | Danny Guzman-Correa v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-01-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-consultant lafler-v-cooper missouri-v-frye prejudice public-trial public-trial-violation | Whether reasonable jurist could find it debatable that Petitioner's public-trial violation warranted reversal at the minimum for an evidentiary hearin… |
| 19-6735 | Kwok Cheung Chow, aka Raymond Chow, aka Ha Jai v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-11-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-principles counsel-of-choice courtroom-closure government-interest governmental-interest harmless-error overriding-interest public-trial right-to-counsel sixth-amendment | Whether federal courts have undermined the constitutional principles of the right to a public trial by adopting a test that requires a lesser governme… |
| 19-6257 | Lamar Lovett v. Texas | Texas | 2019-10-11 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fair-trial jurisdiction public-trial sixth-amendment standing takings | Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a public trial applies to voir dire proceedings |
| 19-5890 | Fernando Cabral-Varela v. Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 2019-09-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law constitutional-rights courtroom-access courtroom-closure criminal-procedure due-process public-trial sixth-amendment structural-error witness-intimidation | Did the judge deprive the Petitioner of his right to a public trial under the Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution? |
| 19-5610 | Richard Felton v. Colette M. Goguen, Superintendent, North Central Correctional Institution | First Circuit | 2019-08-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure counsel-interference court-closure cronic-v-united-states due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus presley-v-georgia public-trial sixth-amendment standing waller-v-georgia | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit contravened this Court's holding in Terrell v. Morris, 493 U.S. 1 (1989) (per curiam)… |
| 19-102 | Leroy Baca v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-07-22 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 18-usc-1503 consciousness-of-wrongdoing constitutional-rights criminal-intent criminal-willfulness jury-anonymity mens-rea obstruction-of-justice public-trial specific-intent | Whether the term 'corruptly' in 18 U.S.C. § 1503 requires the government to prove that the defendant had a 'specific intent to obtain an unlawful adva… |
| 18-9654 | Carl Javan Ross v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-06-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process public-trial public-trial-rights self-incrimination speedy-trial | Was the petitioner's 6th Amendment right to a speedy trial violated as well as public trial rights? |
| 18-8621 | Roummel Ingram v. John Prelesnik, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-03-29 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel public-trial sixth-amendment sixth-circuit | Whether Mr. Ingram is entitled to a new trial due to ineffective-assistance-of-counsel |
| 18-8207 | Wayland Lynn Dilts v. Michigan | Michigan | 2019-03-01 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights courtroom-closure criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fundamental-fairness new-trial public-trial secret-trial sixth-amendment trial-fairness | Whether Petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to a public trial was violated |
| 18-8122 | Ralph Hall v. Darwin LaClair, et al. | Second Circuit | 2019-02-25 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jury-selection newly-discovered-evidence public-trial sixth-amendment standing | Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a public trial extends to the voir dire process of jury selection |
| 18-7981 | Santos Peter Murillo, aka Peter Santos Murillo v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-02-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | batson batson-hearing civil-rights discrimination first-amendment fourth-amendment jury-selection public-trial sixth-amendment standing triviality-exception warrantless-search | Is there a 'triviality' exception to the First Amendment's and Sixth Amendment's public trial requirement, and, if so, was a hearing regarding Governm… |
| 18-1021 | Travis Hawkins v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-02-05 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-court federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review preservation-of-error public-trial state-court state-court-decision state-courts | Whether an objection is required to preserve appellate review for an alleged public trial violation |
| 18-7756 | Roscoe Chambers v. Nicholas Sarcone | Eighth Circuit | 2019-02-04 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 2nd-amendment 6th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction jury-selection public-trial standing | Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a public trial applies to a criminal defendant's exclusion from the courtroom during jury selection |
| 18-7402 | Robert Shapiro v. United States | Federal Circuit | 2019-01-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment compulsory-process confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial public-trial right-to-counsel speedy-trial | What is the meaning of the Sixth Amendment's guarantee of the right to a criminal prosecution, including the right to a speedy and public trial, by an… |
| 18-7174 | Shawndell Everson v. New York | New York | 2018-12-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-denial civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel-of-choice due-process effective-assistance ineffective-counsel public-trial sixth-amendment trial-rights | Did the State of New York deny petitioner his civil rights, liberties, and due process of law, guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States, by… |
| 18-6565 | Charles C. Gore v. Illinois | Illinois | 2018-11-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment adversarial-proceedings constitutional-rights courtroom-closure criminal-procedure critical-stage-of-trial defendant-rights jury-deliberations public-accountability public-trial right-to-public-trial | Whether the right to a public trial is violated when the trial court closes the courtroom while addressing questions posed by the jury during delibera… |
| 18-6510 | Frank Pruitt v. New York | New York | 2018-11-01 | Denied | IFP | 1st-amendment 6th-amendment courtroom-access criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion judicial-inquiry public-trial removal-from-trial right-to-attend-trial right-to-observe sixth-amendment | Was the right to a Public trial, and the right of the Public to attend trial, abrogated when the trial judge failed to conduct careful inquiry 'before… |