No. 20-8000
Natalie Marie Keepers v. Virginia
IFP
Tags: criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial impartial-jury interrogation-tactics jury-selection miranda-warnings peremptory-challenges sixth-amendment
Latest Conference:
2021-09-27
Question Presented (from Petition)
1. Whether a trial court's refusal to remove a potential juror who admits she cannot be certain she can be fair violates the Sixth Amendment guarantee of an impartial jury?
2. Whether a two-step interrogation technique used to undermine the Miranda warnings combined with a deliberate attempt to diminish the importance of the warnings renders the post-warning statements inadmissible?
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Whether a trial court's refusal to remove a potential juror who admits she cannot be certain she can be fair violates the Sixth Amendment guarantee of an impartial jury?
Docket Entries
2021-10-04
Petition DENIED.
2021-06-24
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/27/2021.
2021-05-10
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due June 11, 2021)
Attorneys
Natalie Keepers
David B. Hargett — Hargett Law, PLC, Petitioner