Non-Unanimous-Verdict
20 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-5747 | Elmer Dean Baker v. Indiana | Indiana | 2024-10-11 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | constitutional-rights equal-protection-clause fourteenth-amendment harmless-error non-unanimous-verdict sixth-amendment | Does it violate the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution when a State upholds a conviction after ruling it was not obtain… |
| 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… | |
| 22-146 | Tracy Smith v. Georgia | Georgia | 2022-08-16 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions non-unanimous-verdict sixth-amendment trial-counsel | Whether it is a violation of the Sixth Amendment for trial counsel to fail to object to a jury instruction that sanctioned a non-unanimous verdict. |
| 22-5343 | In Re Quelyory A. Rigal | 2022-08-11 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure due-process duplicitous-indictment fifth-amendment habeas-corpus jury non-unanimous-verdict sixth-amendment | 1. Whether a non-unanimous verdict in C.D.FL. # 0:12-cr-60088-WPD, in violation of the Fifth Amendment and Sixth Amendment, is plain error, reversible… | |
| 21-7803 | Frank Jauron Stringfellow v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2022-05-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process intoxication-defense jury-instructions non-unanimous-verdict supreme-court-review | Whether The Louisiana Supreme Court, Louisiana Second Circuit Court Of Appeal And The TVial Court Bred In Denying Frank Stringfeliow's Constitutional … |
| 21-1398 | Nelson Daniel Centeno v. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico | Puerto Rico | 2022-05-02 | Denied | acquittals constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure judicial-precedent non-unanimous-verdict puerto-rico puerto-rico-law ramos-v-louisiana sixth-amendment | Does this Court's decision in Ramos v. Louisiana, 590 U.S. __, 140 S.Ct. 1390 (2020) bar Puerto Rico from continuing to authorize non-unanimous acquit… | |
| 21-6391 | Hai A. Duong v. Darryl Vannoy, Warden | Louisiana | 2021-11-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-unanimity legislative-amendment non-unanimous-verdict sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation | 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… |
| 21-5299 | John Johnson, Jr. v. Texas | Texas | 2021-08-04 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause factfinder-discretion fourteenth-amendment non-unanimous-verdict penal-code statutory-interpretation | Does Texas Penal Code §21.02 desciminate who is an<d.who is not protected under the Equal Protection Clause under the Fourteenth Amendment by allowing… |
| 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… |
| 20-5813 | Glenn Young v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2020-09-25 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment jury-conviction jury-trial non-unanimous-verdict sixth-amendment | Is the State's evidence sufficient to sustain Young's non-unanimous conviction? Was Young entitled to a unanimous jury verdict under the Sixth and Fo… |
| 20-5123 | Cardell A. Hayes v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2020-07-21 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appeal-pipeline criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment non-unanimous-verdict pipeline ramos-relief ramos-v-louisiana retroactivity sixth-amendment | Because Cardell Hayes's non-unanimous verdict is unconstitutional, Ramos v. Louisiana, — S.Ct. —, 2020 WL 1906545 (2020), is he entitled to the relief… |
| 20-5003 | Richard B. Woods v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2020-07-09 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | constitutional-error constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial non-unanimous-verdict remand sixth-amendment | Whether petitioner's conviction based upon a non-unanimous verdict violated the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution? Wh… |
| 19-8875 | David Gerard Jones v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2020-07-01 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial non-unanimous-verdict remand sixth-amendment | Whether petitioner's conviction based upon a non-unanimous verdict violated the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution? Wh… |
| 19-8740 | Anthony J. Williams v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2020-06-18 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial non-unanimous-verdict sixth-amendment | Whether petitioner's conviction based upon a non-unanimous verdict violated the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution? Wh… |
| 19-8338 | Charles P. Mayeux, Jr. v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2020-04-22 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-amendments criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jackson-v-virginia jury-trial non-unanimous-verdict sixth-amendment | Whether a conviction based upon a non-unanimous verdict violates the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution? Whethe… |
| 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… |
| 18-9744 | Landon Quinn v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden | Louisiana | 2019-06-20 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-conviction due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel non-unanimous-verdict nonunanimous-verdict prejudice prejudice-prong sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington | Whether the fact that a criminal conviction was returned by a nonunanimous verdict is relevant to a court's consideration of the prejudice prong of St… |
| 18-8897 | Corlious C. Dyson, aka Corlious Corall Dyson v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2019-04-18 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment incorporation-doctrine jury-trial non-unanimous-verdict sixth-amendment | Does the right to a jury trial guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment, as applied to the States through the Fourteenth Amendment, allow a criminal convicti… |
| 18-7327 | Trevor Johnson v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2019-01-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-rape Batson-Violation constitutional-rights daubert-standard Denial-of-Motion-to-Suppress expert-testimony first-fourth-fourteenth-amendments fourteenth-amendment insufficient-evidence jury-verdict Non-Unanimous-Verdict reasonable-doubt Unreliable-'Expert'-Testimony unreliable-expert-testimony Violation-of-Telecommunications-Act whether-reasonable-jurists-would-debate-that-the-t whether-reasonable-jurists-would-find-that-the-tri | Whether reasonable jurist would find that the State failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt, every essential element of the offense that Mr. Johnson… |
| 18-6012 | Lucious Wilson v. J. Soto, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2018-09-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aedpa certificate-of-appealability constitutional-law darden-standard darden-v-wainwright due-process habeas habeas-corpus ninth-circuit non-unanimous-verdict prosecutorial-misconduct uncharged-conduct | Is the Ninth Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability ("COA") on the claim that Wilson's conviction is unconstitutional because the prosecut… |