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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-878 | Todd Jeffrey Rogers v. Ohio | Ohio | 2026-01-22 | Pending | constitutional-right impartial-jury ineffective-assistance juror-bias rehabilitation voir-dire | Whether a prospective juror who admitted bias can be rehabilitated through silence or group answers in response to group questions. | |
| 25-6631 | Juan Jose Zarate Sanchez v. Texas | Texas | 2026-01-20 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process impartial-jury jury-selection sixth-amendment voir-dire | Whether due process and the Sixth Amendment right to an impartial jury are violated when the prosecution conducts panel-wide voir dire using a series … |
| 25-6609 | Roger Hoan Brady v. Sircoya M. Williams, Warden, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2026-01-16 | Pending | IFP | batson-challenge certificate-of-appealability judicial-error procedural-default racial-discrimination voir-dire | 1. In light of the missing voir dire transcript, did the U.S. District Court erred when it held that Petitioner's Batson claim was procedurally defaul… |
| 25-5665 | Ali Awad Mahmoud Irsan v. Texas | Texas | 2025-09-17 | Denied | Amici (1)IFP | constitutional-rights equal-protection judicial-discretion jury-selection race-discrimination voir-dire | 1. Does the knowing judicial enforcement of defense counsel's explicitly race-based agreement to exclude a Black woman from the venire violate the Equ… |
| 25-5329 | Duane Gary Underwood, II v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-08-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure motion-to-suppress other-acts-evidence reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure voir-dire | I. Mr. Underwood challenged his seizure and search because there was no reasonable suspicion to justify the detention and search. Did the court err in… |
| 25-5153 | Steven Catlin v. Edward J. Silva, Acting Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2025-07-21 | Denied | IFP | death-penalty federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mitigation-evidence voir-dire | 1. Was the state court's summary denial of Petitioner's habeas claims alleging defense counsel's failure to investigate, develop and present available… |
| 24A1272 | Benito M. Valdez v. United States | District of Columbia | 2025-06-23 | Presumed Complete | first-amendment husher jury-selection public-trial sixth-amendment voir-dire | Question not identified. | |
| 24-1156 | Maninder Singh, Individually and as Heir of the Estate of Jasvir Kaur, Kewal Singh, and Nirbhai Singh, et al. v. Nissan Motor Company, LTD., et al. | Nevada | 2025-05-12 | Denied | Response Waived | batson-challenge harmless-error jury-selection peremptory-challenge racial-discrimination voir-dire | During voir dire, the trial court granted the defendant's peremptory challenge against Dinyal Khan, a man born in Pakistan, after expressing concern t… |
| 24-6414 | Albert Pinedo v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-01-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bias criminal-procedure impartiality jury-selection sixth-amendment voir-dire | Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a prospective juror to make an unequivocal commitment to impartiality after revealing their actual bias. |
| 24-6323 | Ernest Green v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-01-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-trial impartial-jury racial-bias sixth-amendment voir-dire | In a criminal trial, does the right to an impartial jury, guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment, require a defendant of a minority race to be afforded voi… |
| 24-6189 | Maurice Duncan Burks v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-12-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | batson-challenge due-process jury-selection peremptory-strike racial-bias voir-dire | I. Whether it violates Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986), for the government to begin its voir dire by targeting a young, black woman with a deli… |
| 24-627 | Scuderia Development, LLC, et al. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-12-09 | Denied | Response Waived | court-procedure ethnic-discrimination fair-trial jury-selection racial-bias voir-dire | Whether the district court's refusal to ask defense-requested voir dire questions intended to identify existing anti-Asian and Chinese political, ethn… |
| 24-5928 | Erick Gachuhi Wanjiku v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-11-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | due-process judicial-procedure legal-representation pro-se right-to-counsel voir-dire | I<• WUetUer or peWo^'S 5^ c^d \4^ avM£wVueJ:S 'rtcjJr Vo eldfc pro&£S<S u!ta£ Vtetal^cl ^e; o<ppfc4 CetKt Vo feMW appointed Counsel a6 fecpe^bd 6<uct… |
| 24-5668 | Richard Bernard Moore v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections | South Carolina | 2024-09-30 | Denied | IFP | batson-challenge equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination voir-dire | Whether the Supreme Court of South Carolina failed to apply the factors outlined by this Court in Flowers v. Mississippi, 588 U.S. 284, 139 S. Ct. 222… |
| 24-5591 | Guy Benjamin Bowman v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-09-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | jury-selection peremptory-strikes racial-bias structural-error trial-procedure voir-dire | Whether the trial court's refusal to ask of the all-White venire defendant's voir dire questions on racial bias, deprivation of the defendant of the c… |
| 24A279 | John Esposito v. Shawn Emmons, Warden | Georgia | 2024-09-19 | Presumed Complete | death-penalty due-process fair-trial juror-misconduct outside-influences voir-dire | Question not identified. | |
| 24A216 | Lance Shockley v. David Vandergriff, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2024-08-28 | Presumed Complete | ineffective-assistance juror-bias jury-misconduct right-to-fair-trial sixth-amendment voir-dire | 1. This case presents an important question dividing the circuits regarding when a certificate of appealability must issue, so that a state prisoner d… | |
| 24-5162 | Johnny Ho v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-07-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure fair-trial impartial-jury judicial-discretion jury-selection peremptory-challenges sixth-amendment voir-dire | This petition involves questions of exceptional importance for jury selection in trials in all jurisdictions across our nation, involving the process … |
| 24-5166 | Nicholas Joseph v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-07-29 | Denied | IFP | abuse-of-discretion circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure impartial-jury newly-discovered-evidence sixth-amendment unconscious-bias voir-dire | 1) Whether this Court should grant Certiorari to address whether a trial judge, when requested by defense counsel, must voir dire on implicit or uncon… |
| 24-5100 | Elmer Dean Baker v. Indiana | Indiana | 2024-07-18 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | due-process fair-trial Fifth-Amendment-due-process Fourteenth-Amendment-due-process juror-misconduct jury-bias pre-trial-publicity sixth-amendment voir-dire | Questions One Preface: Prior to Petitioner 's trial, defense counsel requested the court to investigate the possibility the jury would be bias becaus… |
| 24-5072 | Juan Rangel-Rubio v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-07-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | batson-challenge equal-protection juror-discrimination jury-selection peremptory-strike race-neutral-reasons voir-dire | Did the district courts dearly err by denying Mr.Rangel-Rubio's Batson Challenge to the government's peremptory strike of juror number 31 where the g… |
| 23A1149 | James W. Johnson v. United States | Third Circuit | 2024-06-25 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure juror-impartiality jury-selection racial-bias voir-dire | Question not identified. | |
| 23-7724 | In Re Shomas T. Winston | 2024-06-14 | Denied | IFP | evidentiary-hearing fair-trial fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury juror-misconduct jury-selection sixth-amendment voir-dire | I. WHETHER A PETITIONER SHOULD BE DENIED AN EVIDENTIARY HEARING TO QUESTION A JUROR WHO FAILED TO DISCLOSE INFORMATION BECAUSE STATE COURTS RULED PETI… | |
| 23-1267 | David W. Murphy, Individually and as Personal Representative for the Estate of Kathleen J. Murphy v. Medical Oncology Associates, P.S., et al. | Washington | 2024-06-04 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-selection medical-negligence patient-relationship patient-treatment standing voir-dire | Petitioner sued the cancer doctors who failed to disclose to his mother both the risks of her recommended Hodgkin's lymphoma chemotherapy treatment an… |
| 23-7625 | Henry Sowers v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-06-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | ada-accessibility americans-with-disabilities-act criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection hearing-impairment judicial-accessibility pro-se pro-se-defendant structural-error voir-dire | 1. Does the State violate the American Disabilities Act by failing to provide "Program Accessibility " to a hearing impaired Defendant (pro-se) in a … |
| 23-7577 | Chuong Duong Tong v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2024-05-28 | Denied | IFP | capital-case capital-punishment due-process good-cause ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief postconviction-counsel potentially-meritorious rhines-standard rhines-v-weber voir-dire | L Did the Court of Appeals err in holding that ineffective assistance of postconviction counsel cannot establish "good cause" under Rhines v. Weber? A… |
| 23-7409 | Fernando Ramirez v. New York | New York | 2024-05-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-right criminal-procedure demeanor-observation due-process fair-trial impartiality jury-selection right-to-counsel sixth-amendment voir-dire | Whether the Constitution requires that a defendant have a simultaneous, unobstructed view of a prospective juror's facial expression to observe their … |
| 23A978 | Chuong Duong Tong v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2024-05-02 | Presumed Complete | death-penalty habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance rhines-stay voir-dire wiggins-claim | Question not identified. | |
| 23-7356 | Jonathan Burnett v. Georgia | Georgia | 2024-05-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-molestation crime-victims criminal-procedure criminal-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection voir-dire | WHETHER TRIAL COUNSEL'S FAILURE DURING VOIR DIRE IN A CHILD MOLESTATION CASE TO EXPLORE AND INVESTIGATE WHETHER JURORS HAD BEEN CRIME VICTIMS (DIRECTL… |
| 23A635 | Jereme Lee Escobedo v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2024-01-09 | Presumed Complete | impartial-jury ineffective-assistance juror-bias sixth-amendment trial-counsel voir-dire | Question not identified. | |
| 23-6078 | Timothy Ray Jones, Jr. v. South Carolina | South Carolina | 2023-11-21 | Denied | IFP | capital-punishment capital-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment insanity-defense jury jury-instructions not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity voir-dire | 1. Whether the Due Process Clause and the Eighth Amendment require that a jury, as the sentencer in a capital case, be told the truth about the effect… |
| 23-415 | BP America Production Company, et al. v. Parish of Cameron, Louisiana, et al. | Louisiana | 2023-10-19 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure civil-rights defendant-rights due-process impartial-decisionmaker impartial-jury standing venue venue-transfer voir-dire | Whether a transfer of venue is required before voir dire to ensure a civil defendant's due-process right to an impartial decisionmaker where the entir… |
| 23-416 | Derek Michael Chauvin v. Minnesota | Minnesota | 2023-10-19 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | change-of-venue community-bias community-harm criminal-procedure juror-bias juror-prejudice presumed-prejudice sixth-amendment venue-change voir-dire | Although a slightly similar question was presented to this Court in Skilling v. U.S., 558 U.S. 945 (2009), questions remained unresolved regarding the… |
| 23-5659 | Cedric Theodis Hobbs, Jr. v. North Carolina | North Carolina | 2023-09-27 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky comparative-juror-analysis constitutional-rights equal-protection jury-selection post-hoc-justifications racial-discrimination voir-dire | Whether it is proper for a court conducting a comparative juror analysis to consider "favorable characteristics" in otherwise comparable jurors when t… |
| 23-5648 | Frank Nucera, Jr. v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-09-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | due-process equal-protection evidentiary-hearing juror-misconduct jury-deliberations new-trial new-trial-motion racial-bias third-circuit-court voir-dire | 1. Did the Third Circuit err by upholding the denial of Petitioner's motion for new trial or an evidentiary hearing based on juror affidavits which es… |
| 23-203 | Missouri Department of Corrections v. Jean Finney | Missouri | 2023-09-05 | Denied | Amici (3)Relisted (9) | batson-challenge civil-rights equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-selection religious-beliefs religious-discrimination structural-error voir-dire | During voir dire in an employment-discrimination suit involving a lesbian plaintiff, plaintiffs attorney asked several questions about whether jurors … |
| 23A175 | Phillip Charles Gibbs v. Becky Carl, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2023-08-25 | Presumed Complete | courtroom-closure public-trial sixth-amendment strickland-prejudice structural-error voir-dire | Question not identified. | |
| 23-5346 | Marcrease Delance Farmer v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-08-11 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-violation counsel-of-record due-process fifth-amendment juror-challenge racial-bias racial-identity sixth-amendment voir-dire | 1. Is it a constitutional Fifth and Sixth Amendment violation when during voir dire and motivated by a single juror's racial identity, Counsel of Rec… |
| 22-7700 | Michael Tisius v. David Vandergriff, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2023-06-04 | Denied | IFP | death-penalty due-process habeas-corpus juror-disqualification jury-selection procedural-claim state-concealment statutory-disqualification statutory-violation voir-dire | An individual who was not qualified to serve under Missouri law sentenced Michael Tisius to death. This juror was, and is still, illiterate. His parti… |
| 22-7699 | Michael Tisius v. David Vandergriff, Warden | Missouri | 2023-06-02 | Denied | IFP | due-process illiteracy juror-qualification juror-qualifications jury-selection missouri-law right-to-fair-trial voir-dire | Michael Tisius was sentenced by a Missouri jury that included an individual who was not qualified to serve under Missouri law. This juror was, and is … |
| 22-7482 | Ralph Leroy Menzies v. Robert Powell, Warden | Tenth Circuit | 2023-05-08 | Denied | IFP | adequate-appeal appellate-review capital-case due-process prejudice prejudice-standard transcript transcript-reconstruction voir-dire | 1. Does the petitioner's Due Process right to an adequate and effective appeal in a capital case require a new trial where critical portions of the pr… |
| 22-7374 | Earl McCoy v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-04-26 | Denied | IFP | court-of-appeals due-process false-statements juror-bias jury-selection mcdonongh-test mcdonough-standard new-trial sixth-amendment voir-dire | 1. Whether the Court of Appeals misapplied this Court's holding in McDonough in finding that juror J.B. was an unbiased juror. 2. Whether the Court o… |
| 22-7345 | Ali F. Elmezayen v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-04-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights criminal-procedure domestic-abuse due-process fair-trial impartial-jury jury-selection sixth-amendment voir-dire | Whether, consistent with the Sixth Amendment right to an impartial jury, a district court may refuse to inform the venire during jury selection about … |
| 22-6955 | Jaime Piero Cole v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2023-03-07 | Denied | IFP | caldwell-v-mississippi caldwell-violation certificate-of-appealability death-penalty fifth-circuit-ruling ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection procedural-default voir-dire | During jury selection, the court told eleven of the twelve seated jurors that their decision to impose death would be automatically reviewed on appeal… |
| 22-6934 | Jack V. Smalley v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-03-06 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | batson-challenge batson-claim comparative-juror-analysis discrimination discriminatory-purpose due-process jury-selection peremptory-challenge voir-dire | Does a comparative-juror analysis on a Batson claim depend on the reasons a party actually gave for exercising a peremptory challenge, or does it exte… |
| 22-6579 | Jaime Hoyos v. Ronald Davis, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2023-01-19 | Denied | IFP | batson-challenge due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination standard-of-review voir-dire | DID THE NINTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS VIOLATE PETITIONER'S RIGHTS UNDER THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT BY ITS FAILURE TO APPLY THIS COURT'S STANDAR D SET F… |
| 22-6483 | Eli Sloan v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-01-09 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure impartial-jury jury-selection prejudicial sixth-amendment trial-procedure voir-dire | 1. Whether the voir dire selection was partial or prejudicial in violation of Petitioner. Eli Sloan's Sixth Amendment right to an impartial jury. |
| 22-6150 | Walter Raglin v. Tim Shoop, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2022-11-23 | Denied | IFP | capital-murder capital-punishment closing-arguments criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance procedural-bar res-judicata state-procedural-bar trial-counsel voir-dire | 1. Whether a capital defendant is deprived of the effective assistance of trial counsel when his lawyers repeatedly concede guilt of aggravated murder… |
| 22-353 | David M. Morgan v. Arizona, et al. | Arizona | 2022-10-14 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | court-access first-amendment juror-names press-enterprise press-enterprise-i press-enterprise-ii qualified-right qualified-right-of-access voir-dire | 1. Does the qualified right of access to voir dire under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, recognized in Press-Enterprise Co. v. … |
| 22-5714 | Tracy Alan Zornes v. William Bolin, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2022-09-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act-of-1 courtroom-closure criminal-procedure partial-courtroom-closure presley-v-georgia public-trial sixth-amendment voir-dire waller-test waller-v-georgia | The question presented by this petition is whether the Sixth Amendment's public trial guarantee, within the review apparatus imposed by the Antiterror… |
| 22-5240 | Robert C. Del Cid v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2022-08-01 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure constitutional-taint counsel-of-choice due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mailbox-rule standing voir-dire | I. WHETHER OR NOT THE EQUITABLE TOLLING, THE MAILBOX RULE ENTITLES PETITIONER FOR RELIEF WHEN THE SUPREME COURT, AS WELL AS THE LOWER COURTS ACCORD DE… |
| 22-5163 | Diann Ramcharan v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2022-07-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection immigration immigration-fraud jury-selection race-discrimination racial-bias voir-dire | Is it an abuse of discretion for a district court, when there is a proper request by the accused, to refuse to conduct reasonable voir dire inquiry in… |
| 22-5149 | Rajesh Ramcharan v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2022-07-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process immigration immigration-fraud marriage-fraud racial-prejudice rosales-loper voir-dire | Rajesh Ramcharan is Black. He was charged with immigration and marriage fraud related offenses. Both immigration and marriage are issues with long his… |
| 22-44 | Westley Devone Harris v. Alabama | Alabama | 2022-07-15 | Denied | criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury juror-misconduct jury-selection sixth-amendment voir-dire | 1. Whether a criminal defendant is deprived of his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to an impartial jury when a jury member gives dishonest and i… | |
| 21-8279 | Randy William Gay v. Arkansas | Arkansas | 2022-06-29 | Denied | IFP | capital-defendant capital-punishment effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-jury fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection sixth-amendment voir-dire | 1. Whether a capital defendant's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments rights to a fair and impartial jury and to the effective assistance of counsel are vi… |
| 21-8119 | Waymon J. Stepherson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2022-06-10 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment 5th-amendment brady-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-against-self-incrimination self-incrimination voir-dire | Whether Or Not The Lower Court Erred And Abused Its Discretion In NOT Finding Petitioner Was Deprived Of His 5th And 14th Amendment Rights When The Tr… |
| 21-7722 | Santonio Byars v. Illinois | Illinois | 2022-04-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky civil-rights equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination voir-dire | 1) Whether the Illinois Appellate Court erred where it did not find that the State's reason requesting the removal of two Black prospective jurors was… |
| 21-7584 | William O. Dickerson v. South Carolina | South Carolina | 2022-04-11 | Denied | IFP | batson-challenge civil-rights comparative-juror-analysis due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection peremptory-strikes post-conviction-review racial-discrimination standing voir-dire | 1. Did the state postconviction court violate Batson and its progeny by refusing to consider evidence that this Court's precedent expressly permits? … |
| 21-1273 | Frank D. Lazzerini v. Ohio | Ohio | 2022-03-21 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error right-to-be-present structural-error trial-proceedings voir-dire | Over objection that it violated his constitutional right to be present at all critical stages of his trial on two hundred seventy-two felony charges, … |
| 21-6772 | Jerry Lee Canfield v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2022-01-06 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights constitutional-error due-process harmless-error jury-bias jury-impartiality jury-selection structural-error voir-dire | QUESTION NUMBER ONE: The Fifth Circuit has announced a newly created rule under the principle of "interpretati logica," and dclared: "Once a panelist… |
| 21-6505 | Bryan Bostick v. United States | District of Columbia | 2021-12-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights juror-impartiality jury-bias remmer severance sixth-amendment trial-court voir-dire | Was Appellant Deprived of A Meaningful Opportunity To Demonstrate Jury Bias After His Sixth Amendment Safeguards Were Violated When The Trial Court De… |
| 21-6435 | James Worley v. Ohio | Ohio | 2021-11-29 | Denied | IFP | capital-conviction capital-punishment constitutional-rights fair-jury fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-selection sixth-amendment voir-dire | Is a capital conviction and sentence in valid and imposed in violation of the capital defendant's constitutional rights to a fair jury under the Fifth… |
| 21-6147 | Joshua Komisarjevsky v. Connecticut | Connecticut | 2021-11-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-prejudice actual-prejudice-analysis emotional-nature-of-case guilty-verdict jury-selection presumed-prejudice-analysis presumption-of-prejudice pretrial-publicity venue-change voir-dire | 1. What consideration, if any, must courts give the following factors in their presumption-of-prejudice analysis: (a) a verdict finding the defendant … |
| 21-5767 | James Felton v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-09-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process implicit-bias jury-impartiality jury-selection racial-bias racial-prejudice sixth-amendment voir-dire | Does our society's evolving understanding of the impact of implicit bias on jury behavior justify overturning the "substantial circumstances" test set… |
| 21-444 | Andre Lee Thomas v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2021-09-22 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (22) | aedpa-deference capital-punishment fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juror-bias racial-bias schizophrenia supreme-court-precedent voir-dire | Under this Court's clearly established precedent, was Petitioner Andre Thomas —an African American man who, during a schizophrenic episode, killed his… |
| 21-5697 | Shawn Mayreis v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2021-09-17 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights courtroom-closure due-process fundamental-unfairness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel public-trial right-to-counsel strickland voir-dire | I. This Court has established that a defendant's right to a public trial extends to voir dire. When counsel's defective advice given in advance of tri… |
| 21-5529 | Amando Martinez Montealvo v. Iowa | Iowa | 2021-08-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure juror-bias new-trial presumed-bias sex-abuse trial-rights voir-dire | Does the presumed bias doctrine require a new trial when a juror who was a victim of sex abuse lies during voir dire to serve in a criminal sex abuse … |
| 21-5347 | Damantae Graham v. Ohio | Ohio | 2021-08-11 | Denied | IFP | capital-punishment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection racial-bias racial-prejudice sixth-amendment voir-dire | This Court recently cautioned trial courts to be especially vigilant against "particularly noxious strain[s] of racial prejudice," Buck v. Davis, 137 … |
| 21-23 | Brenda Cook v. West Virginia | West Virginia | 2021-07-08 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury jury-impartiality sixth-amendment voir-dire | I. Has the Petitioner's Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendment right to an impartial jury been violated when the court erred in allowing juror, Victor… |
| 21-5004 | Bo Daniel Shafer v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2021-07-02 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel trial-counsel trial-procedure voir-dire witness-testimony | 1. DID THE FEDERAL DISTRICT COURT ERRONEOUSLY CONCLUDE THAT BO SHAFER'S IAC CLAIM REGARDING HIS TRIAL COUNSEL'S PERFORMANCE DURING VOIR DIRE WAS WITHO… |
| 20-8378 | Michael R. Gore, Jr. v. Andrew J. Bruck, Acting Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. | Third Circuit | 2021-06-22 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure faretta self-representation sixth-amendment voir-dire waiver | I. IS THE RIGHT TO SELF-REPRESENTATION VIOLATED WHEN A DEFENDANT IS NOT AFFORDED VOIR DIRE UNDER THE U.S. SUPREME COURT'S DECISION IN FARETTA V. CALIF… |
| 20-7983 | Thomas Lam v. Robert C. Tanner, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2021-05-11 | Denied | IFP | certificate-of-appealability constitutional-plea criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus henderson-v-morgan judicial-error jury-instructions plea-bargaining standard-of-review voir-dire | The trial judge relied on a discussion with the jury, during voir dire as satisfaction to a constitutional guilty plea that he informed Petitioner of … |
| 20-7889 | Anthony Sistrunk v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-04-29 | Denied | IFP | plain-error plain-error-review public-trial public-trial-right sixth-amendment structural-error sua-sponte-closure voir-dire waller-v-georgia | In the context of direct appeal, when the district court sua sponte closes the courtroom for the entirety of voir dire and fails to make findings spec… |
| 20-7865 | Terry Lee Froman v. Ohio | Ohio | 2021-04-27 | Denied | IFP | capital-punishment constitutional-duty death-penalty fair-trial jury-selection racial-bias structural-error voir-dire | 1) Does trial counsel have an obligation to conduct a meaningful and comprehensive voir dire as it relates to racial bias, explicit or implicit, of ju… |
| 20-7794 | Kamau Davis v. California | California | 2021-04-16 | Denied | IFP | batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky due-process jury-selection meaningful-appeal peremptory-challenge seat-number transcript voir-dire | Whether the voir dire transcript that identifies jurors for the most part by a seat number, which number keeps changing as peremptories are exercised … |
| 20-1308 | Roger D. White v. Super Gasoline, Inc., et al. | Virginia | 2021-03-19 | Denied | Response Waived | 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial impartial-jury jury-selection racial-discrimination voir-dire | Where the trial court engages in tainting a jury (especially during voir dire) making it clearly pro-defense by punishing pro-plaintiff potential juro… |
| 20-7440 | Paul Salazar v. Texas | Texas | 2021-03-12 | Denied | IFP | collateral-review constitutional-standards double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction post-conviction-review standing voir-dire | DOES A STATE'S INITIAL-REVIEW PDST-CONVICTIDN COLLATERAL PROCEDURES MEET CONSTITUTIONAL STANDARDS WHEN THOSE PROCEDURES FAIL TO PROVIDE PRISONERS THE … |
| 20-7381 | Larry Wilkerson v. United States | District of Columbia | 2021-03-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-conflict evidence-based-concerns juror-discharge legal-disagreement rule-23(b)(3) sixth-amendment standard-of-review trial-court-discretion voir-dire | I. WHETHER THE COURT SHOULD RESOLVE THE CONFLI CT I N THE CI RCUI TS REGARDI NG THE STANDARD APPLI CABLE TO DETERMI NING W HEN THE SI XTH AMENDMENT PR… |
| 20-1186 | Dynasty Group, Inc. v. Stephen Smith, Trustee for Bankruptcy Estate of Heritage Real Estate Investment Corporation | Alabama | 2021-02-25 | Denied | criminal-procedure jury-selection prejudicial-statements reversible-error trial-judge voir-dire | Whether the Trial Judge The Trial Judge Committed Reversible Error When He Refused to Strike the Jury Venire Due to the Taint of Prejudicial Statement… | |
| 20-7214 | Eric Kurt Patrick v. Florida | Florida | 2021-02-23 | Denied | IFP | fifth-amendment impartial-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juror-bias sixth-amendment trial-strategy voir-dire | Where the purpose of voir dire is to empanel an impartial jury as guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment, but an actual biased juror is not removed for cau… |
| 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 | Petitioner was charged with capital murder. During voir dire, and based solely on answers to jury questionnaires, the state trial court systematically… |
| 20-926 | Duane Ronald Belanus v. Montana | Montana | 2021-01-11 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights due-process juror-privacy public-trial sixth-amendment voir-dire | Question not identified. |
| 20-910 | Anthony M. Lee v. Heath Parshall | Seventh Circuit | 2021-01-08 | Denied | civil-rights due-process judicial-discretion jury jury-selection racial-bias section-1983 standing voir-dire | 1. Whether the district court's refusal to probe potential jurors for bias or prejudice was an abuse of discretion under Rule 47(a). 2. Whether the d… | |
| 20-6386 | James Ray Earl Walker v. Nevada | Nevada | 2020-11-19 | Denied | IFP | batson-framework death-penalty juror-selection jury-selection peremptory-strike race-discrimination racial-discrimination state-courts voir-dire | Did the Nevada courts err in failing to observe and follow the three step Batson framework and failing to recognize the prosecutor's blatant discrimin… |
| 20-6260 | Sherman Johnson, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-11-09 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | eighth-circuit equal-protection fifth-amendment flowers-v-mississippi foster-v-chatman juror-strikes jury-selection miller-el-v-dretke prosecutorial-discrimination voir-dire | Whether the District Court and United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit considered the full context of the other evidence of discriminati… |
| 20-443 | United States v. Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev | First Circuit | 2020-10-06 | Judgment Issued | Amici (10)Relisted (7) | capital-sentences district-court penalty-phase pretrial-media-coverage reversible-error voir-dire | 1. Whether the court of appeals erred in concluding that respondent's capital sentences must be vacated on the ground that the district court, during … |
| 20-5644 | Jonathan Limary v. Maine | Maine | 2020-09-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights defense-of-others fair-trial impartial-jury jury-selection self-defense sixth-amendment voir-dire | Did the lower court deny Jonathan Limary the right to a fair and impartial jury under the Sixth Amendment of the United States Constitution, by denyin… |
| 20-5615 | Michael Gordon v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-09-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-prosecution juror-impartiality jury-impartiality jury-selection marijuana-legalization marijuana-prosecution voir-dire | 1. When empaneling a jury for a federal marijuana prosecution in a state where marijuana is legal, does a voir dire inquiry focusing on whether the po… |
| 19-8831 | Eric Reid v. Arkansas | Arkansas | 2020-06-26 | Denied | IFP | capital-case capital-cases constitutional-procedure criminal-trial death-penalty due-process jury-selection morgan-v-illinois voir-dire | Whether the Arkansas' voir dire framework in capital cases conflicts with this Court's ruling in Morgan v. Illinois, 504 U.S. 719 (1992). |
| 19-1421 | Michael Wilford LaFlamme v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2020-06-25 | Denied | Relisted (2) | 6th-amendment bias constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission expert-testimony judicial-discretion jury-selection jury-selection-bias law-enforcement law-enforcement-bias trial-procedure voir-dire | 1. ) Was Petitioner prejudiced When Several Prospective furors Withheld Crucial Information Pertaining To Employment As Law Enforcement When Asked D… |
| 19-8335 | Mitchell Willoughby v. Deedra Hart, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2020-04-22 | Denied | IFP | caldwell-precedent capital-sentencing closing-argument death-penalty jury jury-instructions prosecutor prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-circuit state-law voir-dire | "The uncorrected suggestion that the responsibility for any ultimate determination of death will rest with others presents an intolerable danger that … |
| 19-8326 | Charles Brandon Martin v. Maryland | Maryland | 2020-04-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-violation burden-of-proof confrontation-clause evidence-sufficiency materiality materiality-standard sufficiency-of-evidence voir-dire witness-availability | When a Brady violation (Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963)) occurs, must the Court take into account the effects of the Brady violation, or simply … |
| 19-7694 | Malcolm J. Sanders v. Wisconsin | Wisconsin | 2020-02-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights due-process equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenge racial-discrimination stop-and-frisk voir-dire | 1. Whether qualified persons of color may constitutionally be stricken from juries based solely on prior experiences of being stopped for Driving Whil… |
| 19-7468 | Donald R. Phillips v. Kentucky | Kentucky | 2020-01-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights due-process false-answer implied-bias jury-selection material-error material-question prosecutorial-misconduct standing statutory-provisions voir-dire | 1. Do you apply implied bias as a ground for disqualification under the circumstances suggested by Supreme Court's decision in her concurring opinion?… |
| 19-7487 | Jonathan Blades v. United States | District of Columbia | 2020-01-29 | Denied | Amici (3)IFP | courtroom-access courtroom-proceedings due-process fair-trial public-trial right-to-public-trial sixth-amendment standing trial-transparency voir-dire white-noise | Does barring members of the public from hearing trial proceedings, without any special justification or findings, violate the right to a public trial … |
| 19-7426 | Joseph Njonge v. Margaret Gilbert, Superintendent | Ninth Circuit | 2020-01-28 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | courtroom-closure prejudice public-trial public-trial-right sixth-amendment trial-procedure triviality-exception voir-dire waller-v-georgia | Whether the "triviality exception" to the Sixth Amendment public-trial right comports with Waller v. Georgia, 467 U.S. 39 (1984), which provides the s… |
| 19-5655 | Chadwick N. Barner v. Illinois | Illinois | 2019-08-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fair-trial illinois-supreme-court-rule-431(b) impartial-jury jury-selection post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment voir-dire | 1) CAN A SPECIFIC TRIBUTE TO KILL BE INFERRED BASED ON THE ACT OF PUSHING A PERSONS HEAD UNDERWATER? 2) CAN THE STATES PRESENTATION OF NONCUMULATIVE … |
| 19-5493 | David Ray Taylor v. Oregon | Oregon | 2019-08-07 | Denied | IFP | 8th-amendment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment execution-moratorium extrajudicial-information juror-misconduct jury-instructions moratorium standing state-action voir-dire | First Question Presented: The Eighth Amendment bars a jury from imposing a death sentence if it "has been led to believe that the responsibility for d… |
| 19-5072 | Troy Lee Bridges v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2019-07-03 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | batson-challenge certificate-of-appealability fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel peremptory-strikes prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review voir-dire | Did the Fifth Circuit err in deferring to the Federal court finding that Mr. Bridges was not prejudiced by his findings and the prosecutors conduct du… |
| 18-9652 | Cedric McDonald v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-06-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jury-selection racial-bias sixth-amendment trial-counsel voir-dire | WHETHER TRIAL COUNSEL RENDERED INEFFECTIVE COUNSEL IN FAILING TO OBJECT TO DISTRICT COURT'S USE OF A VIDEO IN VOIR DIRE, WHICH WAS DESINGED TO GET JUR… |
| 18-9606 | Curtis Wayne Givens v. Virginia | Virginia | 2019-06-11 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment Arrest criminal-procedure due-process evidence-seizure Fifth-Amendment Jury-Selection motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure standing Voir-Dire witness-examination | The Court of Appeals erred in finding that the trial court properly overruled the Petitioner's motion to suppress evidence seized when he was arrested… |
| 18-1428 | Gatehouse Media New York Holdings, Inc., et al. v. New York, et al. | New York | 2019-05-15 | Denied | criminal-procedure first-amendment press press-access press-rights public public-access public-right standing voir-dire | Whether an application to a trial court by the press, as a surrogate for the public, in exercising its constitutionally required ability to be heard i… | |
| 18-9242 | Joel Hayden v. Maine | Maine | 2019-05-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | batson-challenge constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection ethnicity fourteenth-amendment jury-selection jury-selection-process language-barrier race-discrimination racial-bias racial-discrimination voir-dire | "WHEN A PARTY MOVES TO STRIKE A PROSPECTIVE JUROR FOR CAUSE BECAUSE OF A 'LANGUAGE BARRIER' WHAT SORT OF RECORD MUST THE COURT MAKE IN ORDER TO ENSURE… |
| 18-9121 | Jerry L. Gater v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-05-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process faretta-v-california jury-trial-guarantee nelson-v-colorado presumption-of-innocence pro-se right-to-counsel sentencing-factors voir-dire | I. UNDER FARETTA V CALIFORNIA DOES A DEFENDANT 'HAVE A RIGHT WHEN PROCEEDING 'PRO SE TO PARTICIPATE IN VOIR DIRE? II. DOES THE PRESUMPTION OF INNOCEN… |
| 18-8811 | Antonio Darset King, Sr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-04-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel search-and-seizure search-warrant sixth-amendment standing voir-dire | 1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals Erred in failing to Grant Petitioner King relief As to the denial of Suppress the search warrant Execute… |
| 18-8643 | Joseph Lee Flores v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2019-04-01 | Denied | IFP | bias criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juror-bias jury-selection sixth-amendment trial-counsel voir-dire | WHETHER VENIREMAN WHO STATED DURING VOIR DIRE THAT HIS ABILITY TO BE FAIR WOULD BE AFFECTED BY PRIOR EXPERIENCE WITH CRIME EXPRESS BIAS, RENDERING COU… |
| 18-8275 | Brian Sawyers v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection implicit-bias jury-instruction jury-instructions jury-selection racial-bias racial-discrimination racial-prejudice sixth-amendment voir-dire | Whether the federal district court should give an implicit bias jury instruction upon request where other courts have recognized that implicit bias is… |
| 18-7822 | Meryl S. McDonald v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Florida | 2019-02-08 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-jurisdiction due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-fact postconviction-counsel pro-se-filing standing voir-dire | Whether the voir dire examination oath provision of Rules 3.191 and 3.300(a) of the Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure is a jurisdictional fact, as s… |
| 18-7696 | Tony J. Walton v. David Ballard, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2019-01-31 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP | due-process fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury judicial-discretion jury-deliberations jury-impartiality sixth-amendment voir-dire | Were the Petitioner's due process right to an impartial jury under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution violated when the trial judg… |
| 18-7590 | Joshua Jacobs v. Texas | Texas | 2019-01-28 | Denied | IFP | 5th-amendment 6th-amendment bias constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-and-impartial-jury fair-trial impartial-jury judicial-discretion jury-selection trial-counsel trial-procedure voir-dire | I. When trial-judge-imposed limitations on voir dire interfere with trial counsel's ability to identify veniremembers whom may be challengeable for ca… |
| 18-7536 | Jason M. Reeves v. Darrell Vannoy, Warden | Louisiana | 2019-01-24 | Denied | IFP | batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes prima-facie-case racial-discrimination side-by-side-comparison voir-dire | In jury selection for the second trial in this case, the State used 7 of its 12 peremptory challenges on African-Americans, removing only 5 of the 23 … |
| 18-7452 | Herminio Garcia-Carillo v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-01-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process due-process,equal-protection,immigration,prejudice equal-protection fair-trial free-speech immigration immigration-bias impartiality jury-selection prejudice voir-dire | Whether the district court abused its discretion in rejecting Garcia's proposed voir dire questions regarding potential racial and ethnic bias against… |
| 18-6411 | Ennis Reed v. California | California | 2018-10-24 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discrimination due-process equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges racial-bias racial-discrimination voir-dire | HAS CALIFORNIA AGAIN DEPARTED FROM THE FEDERAL STANDARDS GOVERNING DETERMINATIONS OF RACIAL BIAS DURING JURY VOIR DIRE? |
| 18-5631 | Steven M. Jacob v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services | Eighth Circuit | 2018-08-17 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | aedpa certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review double-jeopardy due-process habeas habeas-corpus jury-selection prejudice presumption-of-impartiality standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent voir-dire | Was the Petitioner's demonstration, that the State Courts' decision was dependent on their failure to apply the holding in Murphy v. Florida by accept… |
| 18-5271 | Roger W. Murray v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections | Ninth Circuit | 2018-07-18 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | batson batson-challenge Batson-v-Kentucky civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jury-selection mitigation-evidence ninth-circuit racial-discrimination voir-dire | 1. Whether the Arizona courts unreasonably applied Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986) and unreasonably determined the constitutionally significant… |
| 18-5132 | Jonathan Arn Bryant v. Florida | Florida | 2018-07-05 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 14th-amendment 6th-amendment custodial-interrogation due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury right-to-counsel self-incrimination self-incrimination-rights sixth-amendment voir-dire | 1. Whether the State of Florida's use of Bryant's custodial statements against him at trial violated Bryant's Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendment r… |