unanimous-verdict
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25A879 | Anton Soloshenko, Luis A. Torres Gonzalez, and Dominic C. Haymond, II v. United States | Armed Forces | 2026-02-04 | Application | constitutional-rights court-martial criminal-conviction military-justice sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict | Question not identified. | |
| 25A855 | Arvin Terrill Carmen v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2026-01-30 | Application | continuing-criminal-enterprise effective-assistance jury-trial narcotics-violation sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict | The question in this case centers on a determination of the proper application of 21 U.S.C. § 848(c)(2)(A) and what legal standards and facts are nece… | |
| 25A596 | Eric W. Singleton v. United States | Armed Forces | 2025-11-20 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review constitutional-right court-martial criminal-procedure military-justice unanimous-verdict | Question not identified. | |
| 25-422 | Deshawn M. Dawson v. United States | Armed Forces | 2025-10-08 | Denied | Response Waived | court-martial criminal-conviction due-process-clause military-justice sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict | Does the Constitution preclude a court-martial panel of lay members from convicting a defendant of a criminal offense by a non-unanimous vote? |
| 24-6003 | Sydni Frazier v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-11-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-defendant first-degree-murder jury-trial predicate-offense sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict | Whether a criminal defendant's right to a jury trial under the Sixth Amendment is violated when the trial judge does not instruct the jury that it mus… |
| 24-5431 | Jacob Valle v. Florida | Florida | 2024-08-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-trial sixth-amendment social-science unanimous-verdict | Whether Petitioner was derived of his right, under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged w… |
| 23-666 | James T. Cunningham v. United States | Armed Forces | 2023-12-20 | Denied | court-martial criminal-procedure due-process military-justice non-unanimous-verdict prejudice-test sentencing unanimous-verdict victim-impact-statement | I. Whether Senior Airman James T. Cunningham was entitled to a unanimous verdict in his court-martial when the Government convicted him of murder—a se… | |
| 23A283 | James T. Cunningham v. United States | Armed Forces | 2023-10-02 | Presumed Complete | courts-martial Fifth-Amendment service-members Sixth-Amendment UCMJ unanimous-verdict | Question not identified. | |
| 23-242 | Jonathan M. Martinez v. United States | Armed Forces | 2023-09-14 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial jury-unanimity military-conviction military-justice sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict uniform-code-military-justice | Whether military convictions for serious offenses must be unanimous. |
| 21-6512 | Jason Kiger v. Tim Hooper, Warden | Louisiana | 2021-12-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | capital-offense constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process jury-trial legislative-amendment legislative-power sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation unanimous-verdict | Louisiana voted to change its Constitution to require unanimous verdicts in non-capital cases where they were not required before. In 1997 and 1998, w… |
| 21-5342 | Jamerl M. Wortham v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-08-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review essential-element jury-instruction jury-instructions sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict waiver | Whether a defendant waives appellate review of his Sixth Amendment right to a unanimous verdict when the government and defense counsel jointly submit… |
| 21-5327 | Mark Anthony Gonzalez v. Texas | Texas | 2021-08-09 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure juror-substitution jury-deliberation jury-trial sixth-amendment structural-error trial-procedure unanimous-verdict | Petitioner Mark Gonzalez's penalty-phase jury was charged with deciding two issues that together would dictate his sentence. The jury had reached a ve… |
| 21-5182 | Pedro Ray Tejeda v. Minnesota | Minnesota | 2021-07-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | ammunition constitutional-rights criminal-possession criminal-procedure due-process firearm jury-instruction possession trial-procedure unanimous-verdict | I. Must my conviction for Ineligible Person in Poss. of Ammo or firearm be reversed, remanded for new trial and or vacated based on Unanimous Verdict … |
| 20-8403 | Daniel Jacob Craven, Jr. v. Florida | Florida | 2021-06-23 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment due-process elements-of-offense fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-determinations statutory-maximum unanimous-verdict | Whether a defendant's right to due process as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment through requiring that every element of any offense to be proven … |
| 20-8126 | Charles Wesley Kincheloe v. Oregon | Oregon | 2021-05-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial nonunanimous-verdict sixth-amendment structural-error unanimous-verdict | Does a trial court commit structural error for purposes of the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution, when the trial court instructs a jur… |
| 20-8119 | Peter Anthony Ciraulo v. Oregon | Oregon | 2021-05-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law criminal-procedure harmless-error jury-trial nonunanimous-verdict sixth-amendment structural-error unanimous-verdict | Whether a trial court commits structural error for purposes of the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution, when the trial court instructs a… |
| 20-7822 | Trevon Wiley v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2021-04-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection non-unanimous-verdict ramos-precedent retroactivity sixth-amendment state-criminal-procedure teague-standard unanimous-verdict | Does the Court's decision in Ramos v. Louisiana, 140 S.Ct. 1390 (2020) applies to cases on state collateral review, where the State follows the retroa… |
| 20-7495 | Angel Santiago-Gonzalez v. Florida | Florida | 2021-03-18 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-determinations statutory-maximum unanimous-verdict | Whether a defendant's right to due process as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment through requiring that every element of any offense to be proven … |
| 20-6824 | Raymond Bright v. Florida | Florida | 2021-01-11 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment due-process elements-of-offense fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-determinations statutory-maximum unanimous-verdict | Whether a defendant's right to due process as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment through requiring that every element of any offense to be proven … |
| 20-528 | Nicholas S. Baas v. United States | Armed Forces | 2020-10-20 | Denied | Response Waived | confrontation-clause court-martial daubert-standard due-process scientific-evidence sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict | 1. In light of this Court's decision in Ramos v. Louisiana, does it violate a military servicemember's Sixth Amendment and due process rights to allow… |
| 20-5693 | In Re Terron Garhard Dizzley | 2020-09-14 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | burden-of-proof constitutional-rights double-jeopardy fifth-amendment hung-jury jury mistrial trial-procedure unanimous-verdict | 1. Whether the judges ruling that the jury's failure to reach a unanimus decision was not a failure on the jury's part, (" That's actually a strong me… | |
| 19-8062 | Troy Anthony LeBouef v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2020-03-23 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-amendments criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict | Was LeBouef entitled to a unanimous jury verdict under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution? |
| 19-7475 | Douglas Edwin Ball, Jr. v. Michigan | Michigan | 2020-01-29 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment appeal civil-rights conviction dna-evidence due-process evidence insufficient-evidence jury jury-instructions unanimous-verdict | % - '^eTxTXctJEE' ? Dkt T&cceiz? iZx&Hvz uvfrsF- The Tv\>FTetoJTH 4^fwMiSvr hbf'E\ZXoC4TtO B>ECAr 1/5£T -Z~5 -2^W (p<s>5'5jr&^£' TO TAETFRM^tj & IaJH… |
| 19-5817 | Kendrick Taylor v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2019-09-04 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | apodaca-v-oregon criminal-procedure criminal-trial fourteenth-amendment incorporation-doctrine johnson-v-louisiana jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent unanimous-verdict | The issue presented is whether the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial requires an unanimous jury verdict and, if so, would that unanimity requireme… |
| 19-5693 | Harlow Hutchinson v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2019-08-23 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | constitutional-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict | Whether Petitioner was constitutionally entitled to a unanimous jury under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constituti… |
| 19-5301 | Aaron Orlando Richards v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2019-07-25 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection first-degree-murder jury-trial jury-unanimity jury-verdict legislative-amendment non-unanimous-verdict prosecutorial-discretion unanimous-verdict | Did the appellate court err in its interpretation of Apodaca Bad Bertrand? In this first degree murder prosecution, the jury returned an eleven-to-one… |
| 18-9787 | Jace Crehan v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2019-06-25 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | constitutional-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-jury unanimous-verdict | Whether Petitioner was constitutionally entitled to a unanimous jury under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constituti… |
| 18-9693 | Kevin Sheppard v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2019-06-17 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | constitutional-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict | Whether Petitioner was constitutionally entitled to a unanimous jury under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constituti… |
| 18-9463 | Michael Joseph Brooks, Jr. v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2019-05-29 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | constitutional-amendments criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict | Whether Petitioner was constitutionally entitled to a unanimous jury under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constituti… |
| 18-9252 | Kevin Foster v. Florida | Florida | 2019-05-15 | Denied | IFP | capital-murder capital-punishment death-penalty death-sentence due-process eighth-amendment first-degree-murder jury-findings jury-unanimity reasonable-doubt unanimous-verdict | 1. Whether Mr. Foster's death sentence is unconstitutional because it violates the Eighth Amendment and the Due Process Clause where the jury did not … |
| 18-9130 | Shaun Allen Dick v. Oregon | Oregon | 2019-05-03 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment incorporation incorporation-doctrine jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-jury-verdict unanimous-verdict | Does the Fourteenth Amendment fully incorporate the Sixth Amendment guarantee of a unanimous verdict? |
| 18-9025 | Phillip Newton v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2019-04-29 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | apodaca-v-oregon criminal-trial fourteenth-amendment johnson-v-louisiana jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict | The issue presented is whether the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial requires an unanimous jury verdict and, if so, would that unanimity requireme… |
| 18-8453 | Dusty Ray Spencer v. Florida | Florida | 2019-03-19 | Denied | IFP | binding-precedent capital-sentencing constitutional-rights death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing due-process federal-constitutional-rights jury-instructions jury-responsibility jury-verdict sentencing-process structural-error unanimous-verdict | 1. Whether structural error occurs when, after having been affirmatively misled regarding its role in the sentencing process so as to diminish its sen… |
| 18-5924 | Evangelisto Ramos v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2018-09-11 | Judgment Issued | Amici (12)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8)IFP | 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment incorporation incorporation-doctrine racial-discrimination sixth-amendment stare-decisis unanimous-jury unanimous-verdict | Whether the Fourteenth Amendment fully incorporates the Sixth Amendment guarantee of a unanimous verdict? |
| 18-82 | Tamara Cotman and Angela Williamson v. Georgia | Georgia | 2018-07-17 | Denied | Response Waived | acquittal criminal-procedure double-jeopardy double-jeopardy,fifth-amendment,criminal-procedure fifth-amendment jury jury-trial nonunanimous-verdict sixth-amendment sixth-amendment,criminal-procedure,jury,due-proces unanimous-verdict Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Am | 1. Whether it is a Violation of the Sixth Amendment for a jury in a criminal case to return a nonunanimous verdict. 2. Whether the Double Jeopardy Cl… |
| 18-5081 | Alvin Leroy Morton v. Florida | Florida | 2018-07-03 | Denied | IFP | binding-precedent capital-sentencing criminal-procedure death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing federal-constitutional-rights judicial-discretion jury-instructions jury-responsibility jury-role sentencing-procedure structural-error unanimous-verdict | 1. Whether structural error occurs when, after having been affirmatively misled regarding its role in the sentencing process so as to diminish its sen… |