witherspoon-v-illinois

Case	Title	Lower Court	Docketed	Status	Flags	Tags	Question Presented
23-5653	Michael Duane Zack, III v. Florida	Florida	2023-09-26	Denied	IFP	atkins-exemption atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment eighth-amendment fetal-alcohol-syndrome fourteenth-amendment intellectual-developmental-disorder medical-consensus witherspoon-v-illinois	Does the Eighth or Fourteenth Amendment bar the execution of a defendant with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome who was not sentenced to death by a unanimous jur…
21-6083	James Osgood v. Alabama	Alabama	2021-10-26	Denied	IFP	capital-punishment credibility-determinations death-penalty juror-challenge jury-selection sentencing-determination sixth-amendment trial-court witherspoon-v-illinois	Can a reviewing court, consistent with the Sixth Amendment, uphold a challenge for cause in a capital case on the basis of a potential juror's persona…
20-6915	Scott Lee Peterson v. California	California	2021-01-22	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	capital-murder death-penalty eighth-amendment jury-selection sixth-amendment voir-dire witherspoon-challenge witherspoon-v-illinois	Whether the Eighth Amendment permits a verdict of guilt returned by a jury from which all prospective jurors opposed to the death penalty have been im…