unanimity
7 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-253 | Avery Curry Archuleta, aka Avery Archuleta v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-09-06 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-procedure jury-instruction legal-standard self-defense trial-court unanimity | Whether trial courts must instruct juries that self-defense decisions require unanimity |
| 23-5094 | Adam Jason Poitra v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-07-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-sexual-abuse criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions sexual-abuse sixth-amendment unanimity unanimity-instruction | Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a specific unanimity instruction when the government introduces evidence of multiple alleged instances of sexual … |
| 22-348 | Floyd Tayler v. Washington | Washington | 2022-10-13 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | aggravating-factors criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing domestic-violence jury-instruction jury-instructions pattern-aggravator reasonable-doubt statutory-interpretation unanimity | Must the jury be unanimously instructed to find each underlying domestic violence incident beyond a reasonable doubt? |
| 20-419 | Stephen Robert Deck v. California | California | 2020-10-01 | Denied | Response Waived | 14th-amendment attempt attempt-offense custodial-arrest due-process jury-instructions jury-unanimity right-to-counsel search-warrant temporal-element unanimity | Whether the temporal direct step element of an attempt offense may be changed by jury instructions |
| 20-5058 | Randy Estevez v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-07-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process felony-enhancement firearm-possession jury-instructions jury-unanimity sentencing sentencing-reasonableness u-s-sentencing-guidelines unanimity | Whether the district court erred in not instructing the jury that it should be unanimous on the date and location of his alleged possession of the fir… |
| 19-6155 | Deounte Ussury v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-10-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law due-process jury-instructions racketeering statutory-interpretation unanimity verdict-form violent-crimes | Whether conviction under the Violent Crimes in Aid of Racketeering statute requires a special verdict form where the statute requires unanimity as to … |
| 18-9806 | Karlynn Romeo Tones, Donta Lyvoid Blackmon, and Arvin Terrill Carmen v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-06-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-conspiracy criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment indictment-specificity jury-instructions jury-unanimity trial-evidence unanimity | Do federal criminal defendants have a constitutional right to a specific unanimity instruction requiring the jury to unanimously define the duration a… |