racial-prejudice

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-460 Corey Miller v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2024-10-23 Denied Response Waived buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability court-of-appeals life-without-parole racial-prejudice supervisory-power Whether the Court of Appeals' repeated misapplication of the standard for issuing a certificate of appealability warrants the Court's supervisory inte…
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
22-6728 John Lezell Balentine v. Texas Texas 2023-02-08 Denied IFP given its interweaving with federal law -abuse-of-writ -federal-law -habeas-corpus -post-conviction-relief -state-law-ground #NAME? abuse-of-the-writ capital-case due-process federal-law juror-misconduct racial-prejudice Whether the CCA's otherwise unexplained ruling that abuse of the writ under Article 11.071, § 5, precluded post-conviction relief is an adequate and i…
22-5149 Rajesh Ramcharan v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process immigration immigration-fraud marriage-fraud racial-prejudice rosales-loper voir-dire Was the judge required to conduct the requested voir dire on racial prejudice under the 'reasonable possibility' standard set forth in Rosales-Loper v…
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
21-5347 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 …
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…
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
18-7658 Julius Darius Jones v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2019-01-30 Denied IFP capital-punishment constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment juror-bias post-conviction post-conviction-review racial-prejudice sixth-amendment Whether newly-discovered evidence establishes that racial prejudice influenced the decision of at least one juror to convict Mr. Jones and sentence hi…