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25-6224 Latoya K. Benton, Administrator of the Estate of Xzavier D. Hill, Deceased v. Seth W. Layton, Individually and in His Official Capacity as a State Trooper for the State of Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-11-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP excessive-force fourth-amendment police-conduct qualified-immunity racial-bias summary-judgment 1. Whether the Fourth Amendment requires courts to apply a holistic, totality-of-the-circumstances analysis to excessive force claims, including all p…
25-5633 Mica Alexander Martinez v. Christe Quick, Warden Tenth Circuit 2025-09-15 Denied IFP capital-sentencing due-process ineffective-assistance juror-unanimity prosecutorial-misconduct racial-bias May evidence be so unduly prejudicial to 'one juror' in a capital sentencing proceeding that it renders it fundamentally unfair, particularly in juris…
25-5549 Vladislav Konstantin Aksenov v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment racial-bias trial-procedure Do the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit the government at trial from implicitly evoking stereotypes about a defendant's racial or ethnic backg…
24-6993 Deon D. Colvin v. Superior Court of the District of Columbia District of Columbia 2025-04-15 Denied IFP disqualification due-process fifth-amendment judicial-bias mandamus racial-bias Did the D.C. Court of Appeals deny Applicant's Fifth Amendment right to Due Process by not including 743 Fairmont Street NW LLC as a party in the proc…
24-6376 Marion Bowman, Jr. v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. South Carolina 2025-01-23 Denied IFP capital-sentencing constitutional-rights criminal-trial due-process ineffective-assistance racial-bias Did trial counsel provide prejudicially deficient assistance of counsel by repeatedly introducing and amplifying noxious racial stereotypes about Bowm…
24-774 Reginald Keith Clark v. Colorado Colorado 2025-01-22 Denied Amici (2)Response WaivedRelisted (2) for-cause-challenge fourteenth-amendment jury-selection racial-bias sixth-amendment trial-court-discretion Whether a trial court violates a defendant's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights when it erroneously denies a for-cause challenge to a racially bias…
24A715 Toya Gibson v. Ridgewells Catering Fifth Circuit 2025-01-21 Presumed Complete employment-discrimination golf-tournament pro-se-petition racial-bias supreme-court-review women's-open Whether the Supreme Court will review a potential case of employment discrimination in golf based on alleged racial bias at the 2020 Women's Open tour…
24-6323 Ernest Green v. United States Second Circuit 2025-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-trial impartial-jury racial-bias sixth-amendment voir-dire Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a defendant of a minority race to be afforded voir dire of prospective jurors' racial bias if requested
24-6189 Maurice Duncan Burks v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge due-process jury-selection peremptory-strike racial-bias voir-dire Whether the government's peremptory strike of a black female juror through a deliberately confusing question violates Batson v. Kentucky and whether f…
24-627 Scuderia Development, LLC, et al. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-12-09 Denied Response Waived court-procedure ethnic-discrimination fair-trial jury-selection racial-bias voir-dire Whether the district court's refusal to ask defense-requested voir dire questions about potential anti-Asian and Chinese bias denied Petitioners a fai…
24A490 Reginald Keith Clark v. Colorado Colorado 2024-11-15 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights equal-protection fair-trial jury-selection peremptory-challenge racial-bias Whether the denial of a defendant's challenge for cause to a prospective juror who openly expresses racial bias against the defendant constitutes stru…
24-513 Darryl Carter, et al. v. James E. Stewart, Sr., in his Official Capacity as District Attorney of Caddo Parish, Louisiana Fifth Circuit 2024-11-05 Denied civil-rights jury-discrimination peremptory-challenges prosecutorial-misconduct racial-bias section-1983 Does a prospective juror who alleges they were struck as the result of a policy, custom, or usage of racial discrimination have a cause of action unde…
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…
24-290 Rahul Manchanda v. Abigail Reardon, et al. Second Circuit 2024-09-13 Denied Response Waived civil-rights discrimination ethnic-discrimination legal-complaint minority-rights racial-bias Whether a racial, ethnic, and religious minority can file civil rights lawsuits alleging discrimination without being labeled as racist or antisemitic
24A194 Hector Acosta v. Texas Texas 2024-08-22 Presumed Complete capital-murder death-sentence equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-selection racial-bias Whether racial bias in the jury selection process violated the defendant's Fourteenth Amendment right to equal protection in a capital murder case
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…
23A1149 James W. Johnson v. United States Third Circuit 2024-06-25 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights criminal-procedure juror-impartiality jury-selection racial-bias voir-dire Whether a prospective juror's acknowledgment of implicit racial bias and commitment to consciously guard against its influence constitutes grounds for…
23-7617 Andrew Nguyen v. AT&T Fifth Circuit 2024-06-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights discrimination due-process employment employment-discrimination equipment-allocation hotline-complaint performance-review racial-bias retaliation tool-access workplace-retaliation Upfront access to order tools and materials
23-7457 E. R. v. Colorado, In the Interest of S. M. and E. M., Children Colorado 2024-05-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-standard due-process equal-protection judicial-bias parent-child-rights racial-bias racial-prejudice standard-of-review termination-of-parental-rights Whether this Court's precedents on judicial racial bias bind the Colorado Supreme Court
23-5648 Frank Nucera, Jr. v. United States Third Circuit 2023-09-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process equal-protection evidentiary-hearing juror-misconduct jury-deliberations new-trial new-trial-motion racial-bias third-circuit-court voir-dire Did the Third Circuit err by upholding the denial of Petitioner's motion for new trial or an evidentiary hearing based on juror affidavits?
23-5346 Marcrease Delance Farmer v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-08-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-violation counsel-of-record due-process fifth-amendment juror-challenge racial-bias racial-identity sixth-amendment voir-dire Is it a constitutional Fifth and Sixth Amendment violation when during voir dire and motivated by a single juror's racial identity, Counsel of Record …
22-7575 Larry Edmond v. Tommy Williams, Warden Tenth Circuit 2023-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process impartial-jury ineffective-assistance jury-bias racial-bias racial-discrimination structural-error trial-court Whether district court trial abuse its discretion and violated the defendant's constitutional right to an impartial jury
22-7182 Azizjon Rakhmatov v. United States Second Circuit 2023-04-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-46c 2nd-circuit circuit-conflict criminal-procedure due-process en-banc en-banc-review inter-panel-conflict judicial-bias racial-bias sentencing Whether 28 U.S.C. §46c and due process require en banc consideration of inter-panel conflict
22-7136 Terry Froman v. Ohio Ohio 2023-03-29 Denied IFP 6th-amendment capital-punishment due-process impartial-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juror-selection jury-impartiality racial-bias right-to-counsel trial-procedure Whether a capital defendant is denied his right to an impartial jury when admittedly racially biased jurors were allowed to determine his guilt and pu…
22-823 Alicia Thompson v. Janelle Henderson Washington 2023-03-01 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (7) burden-of-proof due-process equal-protection evidence-standard implicit-bias jury-verdict prima-facie racial-bias Whether the Washington Supreme Court's novel standard addressing implicit bias violates the Due Process Clause and Equal Protection Clause
22-6703 Earnest A. Davis v. Government Employees Insurance Company, et al. California 2023-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP ada-accommodation case-dismissal civil-proceedings court-procedure criminal-reporting due-process equal-protection judicial-ethics racial-bias Are judges required to report evidence of crimes?
22-6662 Wesley Ruiz v. Texas Texas 2023-01-31 Denied IFP constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process equal-protection juror-misconduct jury-selection racial-bias sixth-amendment Does Peria-Rodriguez apply to Petitioner's evidence that at least one juror relied on anti-Hispanic racial stereotypes and animus to find that he was …
22-5947 Kevin Johnson v. Missouri Missouri 2022-10-31 Denied IFP criminal-procedure criminal-trial death-penalty eighth-amendment juror-misconduct juvenile-justice mental-health mental-impairment racial-bias Whether the retrial and death sentence of a 19-year-old offender with mental impairments remedied the constitutional violation from the first trial wi…
22-5777 In Re Adib Eddie Ramez Makdessi 2022-10-06 Dismissed IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-conviction due-process equal-protection evidence-tampering jury-instructions jury-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct racial-bias Whether the trial court erred in denying the defendant's Rule 60(b) motion to vacate the conviction based on evidence of prosecutorial misconduct, rac…
22-5163 Diann Ramcharan v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection immigration immigration-fraud jury-selection race-discrimination racial-bias voir-dire Is it an abuse of discretion for a district court, when there is a proper request by the accused, to refuse to conduct reasonable voir dire inquiry in…
21-7658 Mizell Campbell, Jr. v. The Florida Bar Florida 2022-04-19 Denied IFP 14th-amendment disbarment due-process fair-and-impartial-tribunal judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct professional-conduct racial-bias racial-discrimination Whether the Florida Supreme Court deprived an African-American lawyer of Due Process and a Fair and Impartial Tribunal under the 14th Amendment
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
21-7381 Jessie D. Hoffman, Jr. v. Louisiana Louisiana 2022-03-16 Denied Amici (1)IFP capital-case criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process juror-misconduct jury-selection no-impeachment-rule peña-rodriguez racial-bias Did the Louisiana Supreme Court err in failing to consider clear evidence of juror racial bias under Peña-Rodriguez in the extraordinary circumstances…
21-7076 Richard Maurival v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-trial eleventh-circuit evidentiary-inquiry juror-statements jury-deliberations peña-rodriguez-v-colorado racial-bias sixth-circuit racial-bias-in-jury-deliberations
21-1050 Frederick S. Koger, et al. v. Clark V. Richardson, Judge, et al. Second Circuit 2022-01-28 Denied Relisted (2) civil-rights color-of-law due-process educational-neglect family-court homeschooling judicial-bias judicial-misconduct racial-bias Did Justice Clark V. Richardson violate civil-rights under-color-of-law
21-950 Ker'Sean Olajuwa Ramey v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-12-29 Denied 28-usc-2254 batson-claim batson-v-kentucky certificate-of-appealability fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance martinez-trevino peremptory-strike racial-bias In rejecting Ramey's claim for relief under Batson v. Kentucky, did the Fifth Circuit decide an important federal question in a way that conflicts wit…
21-6061 John Rodney Johnson v. Donnie Ames, Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex Fourth Circuit 2021-10-22 Denied IFP due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury prosecutorial-misconduct racial-bias sixth-amendment Does a Prosecutor's conduct to interject race comments into a State trial as an appeal to a racial prejudice based on the fact the trial having the in…
21-5767 James Felton v. United States Second Circuit 2021-09-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process implicit-bias jury-impartiality jury-selection racial-bias racial-prejudice sixth-amendment voir-dire Does our society's evolving understanding of the impact of implicit bias on jury behavior justify overturning the 'substantial circumstances' test
21-444 Andre Lee Thomas v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-09-22 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (22) aedpa-deference capital-punishment fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juror-bias racial-bias schizophrenia supreme-court-precedent voir-dire Denial of constitutional rights to impartial jury and effective assistance of counsel
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…
21-5347 Damantae Graham v. Ohio Ohio 2021-08-11 Denied IFP capital-punishment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection racial-bias racial-prejudice sixth-amendment voir-dire Is capital appellate counsel ineffective under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments when they do not raise that both the trial court and trial defense …
21-5262 In Re Adib Eddie Ramez Makdessi 2021-07-29 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-suppression extraordinary-motion habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel racial-bias racial-discrimination Deprivation of federal habeas review
21-5050 Kristopher Love v. Texas Texas 2021-07-09 Denied Relisted (12)IFP court-of-criminal-appeals death-penalty due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment jury-selection racial-bias sixth-amendment Whether Texas' Court of Criminal Appeals has decided an important federal question concerning a racially biased juror being allowed on a capital death…
20-8409 Brenda Ford White v. O. L. Matthews, et al. Michigan 2021-06-23 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights court-discretion due-process fraud judicial-interpretation medical-malpractice racial-bias rico rico-violations standing vulnerable-citizens Must a court overlook a plaintiff's race in making a decision about her capacity and her right to defend her mother's cortisone death/ murder case aga…
20-8355 Jason Kyle Gee v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-06-22 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jackson-v-virginia jury-deliberations racial-bias standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence verdict-challenge Is it a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses for a state to convict a person of a crime where the elements…
20-7967 Nikolay Vladimirov Sloboda v. Mike Obenland, Superintendent, Monroe Correctional Complex Ninth Circuit 2021-05-11 Denied IFP appeals constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process evidence jurisdiction racial-bias sentencing statutory-provisions writ why-wasn't-the-dna-evidence-tested
20-7865 Terry Lee Froman v. Ohio Ohio 2021-04-27 Denied IFP capital-punishment constitutional-duty death-penalty fair-trial jury-selection racial-bias structural-error voir-dire Does trial counsel have an obligation to conduct a meaningful and comprehensive voir dire as it relates to racial bias, explicit or implicit, of juror…
20-6871 Angnem Green v. New York New York 2021-01-13 Denied IFP closing-argument constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fair-trial prosecutorial-misconduct racial-bias racial-discrimination Whether the New York Appellate Division, Fourth Judicial Department erred in finding Petitioner's Constitutional right to a fair trial was not violate…
20-910 Anthony M. Lee v. Heath Parshall Seventh Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied civil-rights due-process judicial-discretion jury jury-selection racial-bias section-1983 standing voir-dire Whether the district court's refusal to probe potential jurors for bias or prejudice was an abuse of discretion under Rule 47(a)
20-877 Trinell King v. Ricky Pridmore, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-31 Denied civil-rights clearly-established excessive-force hope-v-peltzer police-misconduct qualified-immunity racial-bias summary-judgment tolan-v-cotton Whether the Eleventh Circuit disregarded the summary judgment standard in Trinell King's case and improperly weighed the evidence in favor of the Whit…
20-6211 Michael Anthony Robbins v. California California 2020-11-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP due-process investigation juror-bias jury-trial racial-bias sixth-amendment What constitutes juror bias for purposes of removing a sitting juror during deliberations?
20-5698 Adrian Hernandez v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-09-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fair-trial federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection post-conviction procedural-default racial-bias standing state-court whether-a-petitioner-was-denied-a-fair-trial-when-a-juror-stated-she-could-not-be-impartial
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?
20-5398 Lezmond Charles Mitchell v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-08-18 Denied IFP civil-rights death-penalty due-process extraordinary-circumstance juror-interviews jury-selection pena-rodriguez racial-bias rule-60b Whether district courts can validly bar death-sentenced inmates from interviewing trial jurors post-verdict concerning racial bias
20-5397 Wilbert Romon Banks v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-08-18 Denied IFP constitutional-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan plea-bargaining racial-bias racial-discrimination trevino-v-thaler trial-counsel venue-change Was Banks' claim of ineffective assistance of counsel a substantial claim under Trevino v. Thaler and Martinez v. Ryan?
20-5286 Tomas Rodriguez Infante v. Michael Martel, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-defendant due-process equal-protection impartial-jury jury-selection peremptory-challenges racial-bias racial-discrimination Whether a trial court violates the Equal Protection Clause by removing a Filipino juror over the objection of a Filipino criminal defendant because it…
20-5084 Priscilla Ann Ellis v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment brady-claim civil-rights due-process ineffective-counsel judicial-prejudice racial-bias sentencing sixth-amendment was-ellis-prejudiced
19-8800 Justice Jerrell Knight v. Alabama Alabama 2020-06-25 Denied IFP capital-punishment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jury-prejudice prejudicial-evidence racial-bias sentencing Whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments are violated when the State introduces irrelevant evidence at the guilt phase alleging the defendant poses…
19-8601 William Cornell Walker v. Minnesota Minnesota 2020-06-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP age-discrimination civil-rights due-process equal-protection exculpatory-evidence false-testimony jury jury-composition peer-selection police-misconduct racial-bias Whether jurors twice your age can be considered your peers
19-1218 Marcus Lee Robinson v. Colorado Colorado 2020-04-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial jury-bias jury-trial plain-error prosecutor-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct racial-bias racial-discrimination racial-prejudice Whether a prosecutor's blatant appeals to racial prejudice constitute plain error, even if the defendant cannot show that they altered the jury's verd…
19-8271 Loren J. Larson, Jr. v. Alaska Alaska 2020-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP equal-protection impartial-jury juror-bias jury-trial jury-trial-right no-impeachment-rule racial-bias sixth-amendment Whether a no-impeachment rule constitutionally may bar evidence of juror bias when offered to prove a violation of the Sixth Amendment to an impartial…
19-7563 Terry Glynn Speed v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-02-06 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus new-trial perjury racial-bias trial-procedure Whether the reviewing court is required to hold an evidentiary hearing to allow the petitioner to prove claims of racial prejudice and bias that would…
19-7503 Michael Bernard Bell v. Florida Florida 2020-01-31 Denied IFP buck-v-davis constitutional-right constitutional-rights criminal-trial ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel racial-animus racial-bias retroactive-application strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Does the decision in Buck v. Davis, 137 S.Ct. 759 (2017), which rejected the improper injection of racial animus, bias, or prejudice into a criminal t…
19-7395 Jean Crump v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection false-arrest grand-jury-testimony ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel judicial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct racial-bias racial-discrimination Whether a defendant's constitutional rights were violated when their court-appointed attorney failed to request a new judge despite being advised that…
19-7001 Haji Bagcho, aka Haji Bagh Chagul, aka Haji Bagchagul v. United States District of Columbia 2019-12-18 Denied IFP acquittal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment jury-selection jury-selection-and-service-act racial-bias racial-discrimination sixth-amendment Whether a criminal defendant can be denied time to inspect jury records where the jury office's policy prohibited earlier observation of the venire or…
19-6907 Robert Hendricks v. United States Second Circuit 2019-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-error constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-error criminal-trial due-process equal-protection evidence evidence-admission harmless-error racial-bias structural-error Isn't the erroneous admission of racially charged prejudicial evidence a structural error requiring automatic reversal or, at a minimum, one that requ…
19-6194 William Edward Sneed v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2019-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky certificate-of-appealability equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intentional-discrimination juror-discrimination racial-bias racial-discrimination third-circuit-court-of-appeals In light of the post-conviction court's finding of intentional discrimination—a finding that has not been challenged by any reviewing court—did the Th…
19-5878 Darries Leon Jackson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-reasonableness criminal-justice criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection grand-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel racial-bias racial-discrimination sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether sentences imposed upon Petitioner are unconstitutionally unreasonable or greater than necessary to satisfy the ends of justice
19-5535 Julius Omar Robinson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-12 Denied IFP capital-indictment circuit-split death-penalty death-penalty-cases due-process juror-interview juror-interviews post-conviction-relief post-verdict racial-bias structural-error Whether district courts may validly prohibit death-sentenced inmates from interviewing their trial jurors post-verdict concerning racial bias during d…
19-162 Michael Richards v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-08-05 Denied Response Waived collateral-attack collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation pena-rodriguez pena-rodriguez-v-colorado racial-bias retroactivity supreme-court-precedent Should this Court's decision in Pena-Rodriquez v. Colorado, 187 8, Ct. 855 (2017) be applied retroactively to Petitioner's collateral attack?
19-5171 Victor Hugo Saldano v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-07-16 Denied Amici (3)IFP biased-jury buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim death-penalty due-process future-dangerousness mental-competency racial-bias vagueness vagueness-doctrine Whether the Texas future-dangerousness special issue fails on vagueness grounds as applied to Mr. Saldajfio, as a statute incapable of reasoned applic…
18-9710 Lee Turner, Jr. v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-06-18 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky civil-rights comparative-juror-analysis discrimination due-process equal-protection johnson-v-california jury-selection prima-facie-case prima-facie-discrimination prosecutorial-strikes racial-bias racial-discrimination standard-of-proof Whether mere statistics are sufficient to demonstrate a prima facie case of discrimination
18-9665 Alejandro Hernandez-Delgado v. California California 2019-06-13 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence-code evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment juror-bias juror-misconduct jury-deliberations racial-bias racial-stereotypes sixth-amendment What fact-finding procedures are required by the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments when a defendant makes a threshold showing that a juror relied on rac…
18-9652 Cedric McDonald v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jury-selection racial-bias sixth-amendment trial-counsel voir-dire Whether trial counsel rendered ineffective counsel in failing to object to district court's use of a video in voir dire, which was designed to get jur…
18-9242 Joel Hayden v. Maine Maine 2019-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection ethnicity fourteenth-amendment jury-selection jury-selection-process language-barrier race-discrimination racial-bias racial-discrimination voir-dire When a party moves to strike a prospective juror for cause due to a 'language barrier', what record must the court make to ensure the strike is not ba…
18-8678 Mizell Campbell, Jr. v. The Florida Bar Florida 2019-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-rights disbarment disciplinary-proceedings due-process fair-and-impartial-tribunal fair-trial fair-tribunal judicial-bias judicial-misconduct marshall-v-jerrico racial-bias racial-discrimination Whether an African-American lawyer facing disciplinary proceedings was deprived of his rights to Due Process and a Fair and Impartial Tribunal
18-1148 Kimberly Franett-Fergus v. Omak School District 19, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-03-05 Denied burden-of-proof circumstantial-evidence civil-rights diversity diversity-considerations employment employment-discrimination hiring-practices national-origin protected-classes race racial-bias religion summary-judgment Discrimination-based-on-perceived-race/religion/national-origin
18-8275 Brian Sawyers v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection implicit-bias jury-instruction jury-instructions jury-selection racial-bias racial-discrimination racial-prejudice sixth-amendment voir-dire Whether the federal district court should give an implicit-bias jury-instruction upon-request
18-7809 James Were v. Ohio Ohio 2019-02-07 Denied IFP buck-v-davis competency-hearing death-penalty death-penalty-eligibility eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intellectual-disability iq-scores racial-bias Whether the Supreme Court of Ohio violated the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments by refusing to reopen the petitioner's direct appeal to consider evide…
18-7054 Brenda Ford White v. O. L. Matthews, et al. Michigan 2018-12-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights court-discretion disciplinary-records due-process equal-protection medical-malpractice race racial-bias racial-discrimination rico rico-claims standing vulnerable-citizens Must a court overlook a plaintiff's race in making a decision about her capacity and her right to defend her mother's cortisone death/ murder case aga…
18-6819 Keith Tharpe v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability collateral-review death-penalty due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus juror-misconduct jury-selection pena-rodriguez racial-bias racial-bias-in-jury retroactivity Whether a juror's racial bias affected a death sentence
18-6775 Edward Joseph Kehoe v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure fourth-amendment harmless-error impartial-judge judicial-error racial-bias racial-discrimination reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure structural-error warrantless-search Whether the clearly improper use of a person's race by a judge to support a finding of reasonable suspicion justifying a warrantless search and seizur…
18-6727 John C. Stojetz v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-11-19 Denied IFP brady-violation capital-punishment due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-records mitigation prosecutorial-misconduct ptsd racial-bias Has the Constitutional right to due process of law been violated where a prosecutor withholds prison medical records that substantiate a capital defen…
18-6411 Ennis Reed v. California California 2018-10-24 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discrimination due-process equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges racial-bias racial-discrimination voir-dire Has California again departed from the federal standards governing determinations of racial bias during jury voir dire?
18-219 Starsha M. Sewell v. Fidelity National Financial, Inc. Fourth Circuit 2018-08-20 Denied Response Waived civil-rights civil-rights-deprivation due-process economic-espionage executive-order-violation executive-orders fraud insurance-fraud judicial-misconduct mortgage-fraud ponzi-scheme racial-bias whistle-blower-reprisal whistleblower whistleblower-retaliation Whether the Maryland Mortgage Task Force, DHS & FBI partners of the respondent engaged in economic espionage and domestic treason against the United S…
18-5218 Allen Robertson, Jr. v. Louisiana Louisiana 2018-07-12 Denied IFP atkins-v-virginia criminal-behavior death-penalty eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-cruel-and-unusual-punishment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability jury-misconduct moore-v-texas racial-bias sixth-amendment Whether the Louisiana state courts improperly considered Petitioner's criminal behavior in determining that he is not intellectually disabled, in viol…
18-5118 Shane K. Floyd v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-fairness jury-deliberations jury-selection presumption-of-innocence racial-bias sixth-amendment strickland-standard Whether racial bias can infect a jury's deliberations and decisions, violating the right to a fair trial
24A723 Marion Bowman, Jr. v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. South Carolina Denied death-penalty ineffective-assistance racial-bias sixth-amendment strickland-standard trial-counsel Whether a criminal defendant's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel is violated when trial counsel introduces racially prejudicial…