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25-6846 Tony Terrell Clark v. Mississippi Mississippi 2026-02-18 Pending IFP batson-challenge capital-punishment due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel peremptory-strikes strickland-prejudice 1. whether a post-conviction petitioner must prove a successful Batson challenge would change the outcome of the trial to show Strickland prejudice. …
25-6626 Terrance Carew v. Robert Morton, Superintendent, Downstate Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2026-01-20 Pending IFP batson-challenge constitutional-rights equal-protection ineffective-assistance jury-selection racial-discrimination Whether an attorney has necessarily provided ineffective assistance of counsel when, after making successful Batson claims, he fails to insist on a re…
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…
25A718 Tony Terrell Clark v. Mississippi Mississippi 2025-12-18 Application batson-challenge constitutional-review ineffective-assistance jury-selection racial-discrimination strickland-standard (1) whether the Mississippi Supreme Court may set an impossible standard in post-conviction review of an ineffective Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (…
25-558 John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections v. Michael Sockwell Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-07 Pending Relisted (2) batson-challenge equitable-remedy federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-deference state-prisoner 1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit violated 28 U.S.C. §2254. 2. Whether a federal court may grant habeas relief to a guilty state prisoner upon identify…
25A241 James P. Baumgartner v. United States Armed Forces 2025-08-29 Presumed Complete batson-challenge equal-protection jury-composition military-justice panel-member-selection racial-discrimination Question not identified.
25-5469 Bryan Christopher Bell v. North Carolina North Carolina 2025-08-26 Denied Amici (5)IFP batson-challenge equal-protection gender-discrimination jury-selection postconviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct Whether this Court may review the merits of an undisputable violation of J.E.B. v. Alabama ex rel. T.B., 511 U.S. 127 (1994) where the state court app…
24-7351 Terry Pitchford v. Burl Cain, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-06-03 Granted Amici (10)Relisted (8)IFP batson-challenge capital-punishment equal-protection habeas-corpus peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination 1. Does clearly established federal law determined by this Court and applied in six other circuits require reversal of a state appellate court's denia…
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…
24-6739 Christopher L. Smith v. Ohio Ohio 2025-03-11 Denied IFP batson-challenge due-process expert-witness-testimony fair-trial jury-discrimination prosecutorial-misconduct 1.) The question for this Court is whether the Ohio trial court clearly erred in not conducting the three-step analysis of Batson v. Kentucky 476 U.S.…
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…
24-600 Quiotis C., Jr. v. Nebraska Nebraska 2024-12-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) batson-challenge constitutional-rights jury-trial juvenile-justice prosecutorial-discretion sixth-amendment 1. Whether all juveniles are guaranteed the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial in the Constitution regardless of their geographic location when t…
24-5874 Alonzo Cortez Johnson v. William "Chris" Rankins, Warden Tenth Circuit 2024-10-31 Denied IFP batson-challenge habeas-corpus jury-selection procedural-defense racial-discrimination tenth-circuit-ruling Does this Court's decision in Jennings v. Stephens, 574 U.S. 271 (2015), allow Petitioner to raise procedural defenses on remand?
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…
24-5659 Luis Angel Cruz-Cruz v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-09-30 Denied IFP batson-challenge constitutional-law gender-bias jury-selection peremptory-strike racial-discrimination In the trial of Luis Angel Cruz-Cruz, a prosecutor used a peremptory strike to keep a Latino man off the jury. The prosecutor said that he preferred a…
24-5528 Terrace Tyrone Perkins, Sr. v. Nicholas Lamb, Warden Eighth Circuit 2024-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights eighth-circuit impartial-jury pretrial-identification (1)Whether acircuit court candeny acertificate ofappealability when theApplicant has made asubstantial showing ofthedenial ofimportant constitutional …
24-5173 Sir Mario Owens v. Colorado Colorado 2024-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky criminal-justice-system driving-while-black equal-protection juror-bias jury-selection peremptory-strike peremptory-strikes race-neutral race-neutral-justification racial-discrimination 1. Whether expressly linking a black juror's remark in a jury questionnaire indicating that he had an "unpleasant experience" with police (namely, "dr…
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…
24-5018 Maureen McDermott v. Anissa De La Cruz, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-07-08 Denied IFP aedpa aedpa-standard batson-challenge clearly-established-federal-law darden-v-wainwright death-penalty-review due-process ninth-circuit-review parker-v-matthews prosecutorial-misconduct QUESTION ONE: Every federal judge reviewing Maureen McDermott's prosecutorial misconduct claim (four judges, including the district court and each ju…
23-7674 Eric Wright v. Kris Mayes, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky constitutional-law due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus jury-selection racial-discrimination Did the court of appeals' refusal to grant Mr. Wright habeas corpus relief in respect to his claim of unlawful racial discrimination in the selection …
23-7499 Russell William Tucker v. North Carolina North Carolina 2024-05-17 Denied IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky burden-of-proof disparate-treatment equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-strikes prima-facie-case prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination I. Whether the Supreme Court of North Carolina was free to reject evidence of disparate treatment and impose on Petitioner the crippling burden of sho…
23-7167 Joseph Lochuch Ewalan v. Washington Washington 2024-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination standing This courts precedent in the united states Vi Flowers v. Mississippi, 139 set. (2019), Kentucky v. Batson, 476 U.S. 79, Miller-elv.dretke, 545 U.S. 23…
23A806 Russell William Tucker v. North Carolina North Carolina 2024-03-01 Presumed Complete batson-challenge death-penalty equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination Question not identified.
23-6804 Jonathan Douglas Richardson v. North Carolina North Carolina 2024-02-21 Denied IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky constitutional-rights flowers-v-mississippi jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes prosecutorial-misconduct racial-animus racial-discrimination Whether the Supreme Court of North Carolina violated this Court's clear precedent when it held that trial judges have "broad discretion" to refuse to …
23A569 Stephen Elliot Powers v. Mississippi Mississippi 2023-12-21 Denied batson-challenge constitutional-law ineffective-assistance jury-selection racial-discrimination strickland-standard Question not identified.
23-668 Warren King v. Shawn Emmons, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-20 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (13) 28-usc-2254 batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky equal-protection federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-determination jury-selection racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review 1. Whether the Georgia Supreme Court's decision was based on "an unreasonable determination" of the facts. 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(2). 2. Whether the Geo…
23A515 Jonathan Douglas Richardson v. North Carolina North Carolina 2023-12-06 Presumed Complete batson-challenge equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-selection peremptory-challenge racial-discrimination Question not identified.
23-5710 Darryl Burghardt v. Tammy L. Campbell, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge civil-rights due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance jury-selection peremptory-strike racial-discrimination (1) Whether Petitioner Darryl Burghardt's trial counsel performed deficiently by refusing to raise, and thereby waiving, a meritorious Batson objectio…
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…
23-248 James Garfield Broadnax v. Texas Texas 2023-09-14 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (9) batson-challenge batson-violations black-defendant capital-case equal-protection habeas-corpus jury-selection prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination white-victims Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals' decision that Mr. Broadnax failed to establish a prima facie equal protection claim conflicts with this C…
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 …
23-5089 Garland Bernell Harper v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-07-13 Denied IFP batson batson-challenge certificate-of-appealability equal-protection fifth-circuit habeas ineffective-assistance jury-selection peremptory-strike race-discrimination This case arises from the State's peremptory challenge to a Black juror which Mr. Harper challenged as purposefully discriminatory. At trial, the Bats…
22-7185 Brandon Scott Donaldson v. Tennessee Tennessee 2023-04-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky but-for-cause civil-rights fair-cross-section jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike pretext race-neutral race-neutral-explanation systematic-underrepresentation 1. The State used a peremptory challenge on the first Black juror in the jury box. When required to articulate his reasons for the strike, the prosecu…
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…
22-6775 Josue Anahun Marquez-Oseguera v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP Batson-challenge constitutional-law equal-protection implicit-bias jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike race-discrimination race-neutral-reason Whether unstable work history automatically qualifies as a race-neutral reason for a peremptory strike in response to a Batson challenge.
22-6745 Robert Hill v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP Batson-challenge civil-rights constitutional-procedure due-process eighth-circuit equal-protection jury-selection prima-facie-evidence prosecutorial-discretion standard-of-review A. WHETHER PETITIONER ESTABLISHED PRIMA FACIE EVIDENCE DEMONSTRATING COUNTERVAILING FACTORS EXCUSING HIM FROM MAKING HIS SIMILARLY SITUATED BATSON-BAS…
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…
22-6107 Jarmal Williamson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky circuit-split equal-protection flowers-v-mississippi jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination Does Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986), and its progeny, including Flowers v. Mississippi, 139 S. Ct. 2228 (2019), instruct courts to consider as…
22-5988 Clemente Hernandez-Garcia v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-11-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky criminal-procedure discriminatory-intent equal-protection judicial-standard ninth-circuit peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike racial-discrimination If a trial court legally errs at step three of Batson, may an appellate court resolve the factual question of whether a party acted with discriminator…
22-5839 Daniel Mason v. Colorado Colorado 2022-10-14 Denied IFP batson-challenge constitutional-law due-process equal-protection fair-trial jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike racial-discrimination Whether the Colorado Supreme erred in finding no Equal Protection violation when the prosecution impermissibly used race as a reason for the peremptor…
22-5679 Dwandarrius Jamar Robinson v. Arizona Arizona 2022-09-26 Denied IFP batson-challenge discriminatory-intent disparate-impact due-process equal-protection jury-selection misstatements-of-fact peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination Dwandarrius Robinson is a black man who was sentenced to death by a jury that the State scrubbed clean of all but one minority juror. The State used i…
22-5667 Charles Stevens v. Ron Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-09-22 Denied IFP aedpa batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky comparative-juror-analysis flowers-v-mississippi habeas-corpus-standard juror-similarity miller-el-v-dretke ninth-circuit-review peremptory-strike race-based-challenge racial-discrimination 1. Whether a state court improperly expands or modifies the standard this Court established in Batson v. Kentucky and its progeny, when it requires a …
22-5624 Tiffany Leigh Marion v. North Carolina North Carolina 2022-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge Batson-v-Kentucky criminal-procedure equal-protection plea-bargaining prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination Whether Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986) and its progeny apply to equal protection claims challenging a prosecutor's decision of whether to exte…
22-161 Robert Nieto and Darrick R. Vallodolid v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-08-22 Denied Response Waived batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky constitutional-rights equal-protection jury-selection prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation 1. Whether Mr. Nieto's and Mr. Vallodolid's convictions should be reversed because the Government's peremptory striking of qualified Hispanic prospect…
22-5359 Kareem M. Murray v. Joseph Noeth, Superintendent, Attica Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2022-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky criminal-procedure federal-review habeas-corpus peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike prosecutorial-discrimination supreme-court-precedent unreasonable-determination-of-facts 1. Whether a state trial court's granting of a prosecutor's challenge to a defendant's use of a peremptory strike, without following the three-step pr…
22-5187 Jesus Maya-Zapata v. California California 2022-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky credibility-determination judicial-procedure jury-selection peremptory-challenge peremptory-excusal-of-a-juror reasonableness-of-stated-justifications sixth-amendment Review is requested to clarify whether there is a single deferential standard of appellate review for Sixth Amendment claims arising under Batson v. K…
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? …
21-7475 Edward James Rose v. Arizona Arizona 2022-03-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky constitutional-inquiry discriminatory-purpose equal-protection judicial-speculation jury-selection peremptory-strikes prosecutorial-discretion In Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986), this Court developed a three-step inquiry to determine whether a party's peremptory strikes were unconstitu…
21-7455 Don'te Lamont McDaniel v. California California 2022-03-24 Denied IFP batson-challenge civil-rights due-process equal-protection jury-selection mixed-motive peremptory-strikes prosecutorial-bias racial-bias racial-discrimination racial-stereotypes This case presents an important question over which lower courts are openly and intractably divided regarding the proper method for assessing mixed mo…
21-7437 Steven Hutchinson v. Michael Zaken, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Greene, et al. Third Circuit 2022-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge Batson-v-Kentucky constitutional-violation ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection presumption-of-prejudice racial-discrimination strickland-standard Strickland-v-Washington 1. Should prejudice under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), be presumed for an claim based on counsel's failure to object to unconstituti…
21-1234 Jose Dominguez v. American Express, FSB Texas 2022-03-10 Denied batson-challenge business-debt civil-procedure constitutional-rights corporate-law corporate-liability credit-protection debts statute-of-frauds third-party-liability veil-piercing 1. Did the trial court err in holding an owner of a corporation liable for the debts of the third person? 2. Did the trial court violate petitioner's…
21-7302 Christian Peterson v. Kansas Kansas 2022-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge Batson-v-Kentucky civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure jury-selection race-discrimination racial-discrimination Did the Kansas courts err in failing to recognize race discrimination under Batson.
21-1110 Travis Boys v. Louisiana Louisiana 2022-02-10 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived batson-challenge Batson-v-Kentucky due-process Johnson-v-California jury-selection peremptory-strikes prima-facie-case racial-discrimination Whether, in conflict with Johnson v. California, 545 U.S. 162 (2005), the Louisiana appellate court applied an impermissibly high burden of proof at t…
21-1094 Jacques Jean Kabongo v. Michigan Michigan 2022-02-07 Denied appellate-review batson-challenge due-process equal-protection fair-trial jury-selection structural-error supreme-court-review I. WHETHER THE MICHIGAN SUPREME COURT APPLICATION OF BATSON WAS OBECTIVELY UNREASONABLE BY ACCEPTING CLEARLY ERRONEOUS FINDINGS AND DEFERRING TO TRIAL…
21-6747 Victor Dewayne Taylor v. Scott Jordan, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-12-29 Denied IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky capital-case constitutional-law habeas-corpus jury-selection peremptory-challenges race-discrimination race-neutral-reason sixth-circuit 1. Is a statement by the prosecutor that he believed he could discriminatorily remove African-American jurors from the panel as long as he left one Af…
21-6661 Alonzo Cortez Johnson v. Jimmy Martin, Warden Tenth Circuit 2021-12-20 Denied IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky criminal-procedure habeas-corpus jury-selection peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination reconstruction-hearing waiver Do the normal rules of waiver apply in a situation like this to preclude a reconstruction hearing where the State has failed to offer any reasons for …
21-6659 Glen Seals v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky habeas-corpus johnson-v-california judicial-review mixed-question-of-fact-and-law peremptory-strike prima-facie prima-facie-case race-discrimination standard-of-review 1. Whether, under Johnson v. California, 545 U.S. 162 (2005), a court may supply and consider potential race-neutral reasons for a prosecutor's peremp…
21-896 Jimmy Martin, Warden v. Alonzo Cortez Johnson Tenth Circuit 2021-12-16 Denied anti-terrorism-act batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky direct-appeal federal-court-proceedings habeas-corpus jury-selection standard-of-review state-court-proceedings tenth-circuit In 2012, an Oklahoma jury convicted Alonzo Cortez Johnson of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder and sentenced him to life in prison i…
21-6506 E'Mario C. Allen v. Joseph Noeth, Superintendent, Attica Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2021-12-03 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion batson-challenge batson-issue constitutional-interpretation federal-habeas federal-habeas-court federal-law habeas-corpus judicial-discretion state-court supreme-court-review Whether the Habeas Court proceeding and asjudication of the claim regarding a Batson issue did not result in a decision that was contrary to, or invo…
21-6484 Thomas Lee Battle v. California California 2021-12-01 Denied IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky burden-shifting civil-rights discrimination hypothetical-justifications jury-selection prima-facie prima-facie-case prosecutorial-discretion title-vii 1. Should analysis of a prima facie case of discrimination under Batson prohibit reliance upon hypothetical justifications never advanced by the prose…
21-6348 Rafael Ramiro-Medina v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-22 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review batson-challenge criminal-procedure discriminatory-intent equal-protection fact-finding jury-selection procedural-error racial-discrimination standard-of-review If a trial court legally errs in applying the final step of the process under Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986), can a federal court of appeals c…
21-6267 Adrienne Brown-Mallard v. Potomac Concrete Company, Inc., et al. Maryland 2021-11-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky civil-rights civil-rights-act constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection j-e-b-v-alabama jury-selection This extreme violative case significantly challenges multiple Constitutional and Federal laws. On appeal, Petitioner presented trial court reversable …
21-6245 Robin Moore v. James David Green, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-11-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge civil-rights due-process fair-trial jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike racial-discrimination 1. Whether the (Court's) failure to specifically find that the prosecution had made a preliminary showing of racial discrimination when denying a crim…
21-6008 Keyaira Porter v. Arizona Arizona 2021-10-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review batson-challenge comparative-juror-analysis criminal-procedure equal-protection jury-selection racial-discrimination standard-of-review trial-procedure For over a decade now, Courts have found themselves intractably divided on two important issues regarding the enforcement of Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U…
21-5649 Javon Pierre Shelby v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-09-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky discriminatory-purpose equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-strike peremptory-strikes racial-bias racial-discrimination step-three-finding When a trial court denies a Batson motion as to one juror at step one and then, in response to a second Batson motion as to a subsequently struck juro…
21-267 James Garfield Broadnax v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-08-24 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) 28-usc-2254 batson-challenge cullen-v-pinholster evidentiary-hearing federal-review habeas-corpus prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation Whether, under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) and Cullen v. Pinholster, 563 U.S. 170 (2011), a federal habeas petitioner may present evidence of a prosecutor's r…
20-1799 Hozie Rowell v. Joan Ferreira, et al. Second Circuit 2021-06-24 Denied Response Waived batson-challenge civil-rights due-process equal-protection juror-bias jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike racial-discrimination Did the court of appeals contravene Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986) when in affirming the peremptory striking of the only qualified African-Ame…
20-8169 Yessenia Jimenez v. United States Second Circuit 2021-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge civil-rights cross-examination due-process fifth-amendment hispanic jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes pretextual-reasons 1. Whether the government violated Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, (1986), in the trial of a female Hispanic New York City police officer when it use…
20-1560 Lowndes County Health Services, LLC v. Gregory Copeland, et al. Georgia 2021-05-11 Denied Response Waived appellate-review batson-challenge civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection juror-discrimination jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike race-neutrality racial-discrimination 1. Whether striking a juror based on allegations of racial prejudice, when unsubstantiated, is not a facially race neutral explanation under step two …
20-7804 Michael William Ledford v. Warden, Georgia Diagnostic Prison Eleventh Circuit 2021-04-20 Denied IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky capital-sentencing civil-rights due-process gender-discrimination ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel j.e.b-v-alabama jury-selection psychopathy-evidence 1. Whether this Court meant it when it wrote that "a pattern of strikes against black [or here, women] jurors included in this particular venire might…
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 …
20-7758 Benjamin E. Vance v. Frank B. Bishop, Jr., Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-04-14 Denied IFP batson-challenge constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial jury-selection peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination Did the lower courts violate Petitioner's Constitutional rights under the 14 Amendment to Due Process, Equal Protection clause, and U.S. Amendment VI;…
20-7683 Paul Wesley Baker v. California California 2021-04-07 Denied IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky constitutional-standard equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination standard-of-review When the defense challenges a prosecutor's exercise of a peremptory strike of a prospective juror under Batson v. Kentucky, 487 U.S. 79, 106 S.Ct. 171…
20-6990 Allyn Akeem Smith v. Arizona Arizona 2021-01-29 Denied IFP 4th-amendment Batson-challenge cell-site-location-information csli exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception jury-selection search-and-seizure standing 1. Does the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule obviate an illegal seizure of CSLI? 2. Whether a state's proffer of nondiscriminatory reaso…
20-6786 Erica Yvonne Sheppard v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-01-05 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2254 batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection mitigation-evidence section-2254 wilson-v-sellers 1. Does the Fifth Circuit's application of § 2254(d) —which explicitly requires deference to unreasonable state court opinions if the federal court ca…
20-808 Johnny Duane Miles v. California California 2020-12-15 Denied Amici (1) batson-challenge batson-claim comparative-juror-analysis death-penalty jury-selection peremptory-challenges pretext prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination During jury selection for Johnny Duane Miles's capital murder trial, the prosecutor used his peremptory challenges to remove every Black prospective j…
20-5984 Ricardo Woods v. Brian Cook, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky confrontation-clause constitutional-law dying-declaration giles-v-california peremptory-challenge sixth-amendment testimonial-statement trial-procedure This case presents two critical questions of constitutional law, one related to the introduction of a suspect identification, made by a profoundly par…
20-5987 William J. Truesdale v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2020-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge civil-rights due-process equal-protection jury-selection neil-challenge peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination standing Whether a state trial court's brief colloquy and abbreviated review of evidence relevant to a Batson challenge satisfied its obligation under step thr…
20-5728 Derrick A. Dotson v. Louisiana Louisiana 2020-09-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP batson-challenge collateral-review criminal-procedure equal-protection jury-selection jury-trial ramos-retroactivity retroactivity sixth-amendment teague-standard Whether this Court's decision in Ramos v. Louisiana, 140 S. Ct. 1390 (2020) applies to cases on state collateral review, where the State follows the r…
20-5685 Ruben Sanchez v. Steven Silva, et al. First Circuit 2020-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-selection peremptory-challenge pretext racial-discrimination standard-of-review (1) Whether, in an analysis under Batson v Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986), the prosecutor's peremptory challenge of Hispanic prospective jurors was just…
20-5241 Dewoyne Curtis Potts v. John Garza Ninth Circuit 2020-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson batson-challenge comparative-juror-analysis discriminatory-pretext juror-strike miller-el-standard miller-el-v-dretke mischaracterization-of-testimony ninth-circuit prosecutorial-bias race-based-questioning In this case involving a Black defendant, the prosecutor struck the sole Black juror remaining on the venire (the only other Black veniremember was st…
20-5036 Jermond Perry v. Jeffrey Woods, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky equal-protection habeas-corpus jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination sixth-amendment I. Was counsel's objection at the moment the pattern emerged sufficient to warrant a full Batson inquiry withrespect to all strikes in the alleged p…
20-5085 Joe Edward Johnson v. California California 2020-07-16 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (5)IFP batson-challenge criminal-procedure due-process faretta-motion faretta-v-california jury-selection legal-timeliness self-representation timeliness totality-of-circumstances 1. Whether, as the overwhelming majority of jurisdictions hold, a request for self-representation under Faretta v. California, 422 U.S. 806 (1975), is…
20-5048 Josh L. Bowman v. Bert Boyd, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-07-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 5th-amendment batson-challenge confession confession-suppression constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-selection police-misconduct police-threats suppression 1. Whether Mr. Bowman's confession should have been suppressed due to treats by police? 2. Whether Mr. Bowman's federal constitutional rights under B…
20-5023 Carter Vincent Anderson v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2020-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review batson-challenge batson-violation constitutional-rights due-process evidence-preservation evidence-suppression evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the District Court and Court of Appeal erred in review of claim presented which clearly show ineffective assistance of counsel on both trial a…
19-8402 John Pacchiana v. Florida Florida 2020-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech jury-selection peremptory-strike racial-discrimination standing Whether this Court should grant a Writ of Certiorari to review the decision of the Florida Supreme Court finding that counsel failed to preserve an ob…
19-8332 Robert Boyd Rhoades v. California California 2020-04-22 Denied Relisted (4)IFP batson-challenge civil-rights due-process equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenge peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination 1. Whether, by hypothesizing reasons the prosecutors might have had to use half of their peremptory challenges to excuse all four prospective African-…
19-8196 Larry Grant Gentry v. Arizona Arizona 2020-04-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP and whether a court should assess such a strike u batson-challenge Batson-v-Kentucky civil-rights due-process jury-selection objective-observer-test peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike purposeful-discrimination racial-discrimination 1. Whether a party taints the entire jury selection proceedings by providing a racially discriminatory basis for exercising a peremptory strike at the…
19-7857 Chance Dechristian Adams v. Minnesota Minnesota 2020-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky circuit-split equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-strike peremptory-strikes pretext prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination standard-of-review When a peremptory strike of a prospective juror is challenged under Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986), and a prosecutor offers multiple reasons f…
19-7745 Willie B. Smith, III v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-24 Denied Relisted (3)IFP batson-challenge collateral-review death-penalty death-penalty-law hall-v-florida intellectual-disability moore-v-texas peremptory-strikes prosecutor-conduct prosecutorial-discretion retroactive-application retroactivity substantive-rules 1. Whether Hall v. Florida , 134 S. Ct. 1986 (2014), and Moore v. Texas , 137 S. Ct. 1039 (2017), announced new substantive rules that apply retroacti…
19-7108 Devell Moore v. Robert LeGrand, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky equal-protection fair-trial jury-selection ninth-circuit peremptory-challenges purkett-v-elem trial-procedure Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in denying a Certificate of Appealability on Moore's claim he was denied equal protection of the law, and a fair trial…
19-7061 Charles Edward Smith v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-27 Granted IFP appellate-review batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky burden-shifting clearly-erroneous-standard jury-selection peremptory-challenge prima-facie-case racial-discrimination standard-of-review In Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, 97 (1986), the Court set forth a three-step protocol to prevent racial discrimination in jury selection. It applie…
19-6647 Michael J. Baxter v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-15 Denied IFP acquitted-conduct batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jury-selection racial-discrimination reasonable-doubt sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment united-states-v-watts 1. Whether the striking of two out of three black veniremembers demonstrates a "pattern of discrimination" as necessary to satisfy the first step of t…
19-6272 Mauricio Lara-Bonilla v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky civil-rights discriminatory-intent due-process equal-protection juror-bias jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike trial-court-discretion For claims that a party had a discriminatory intent in using a peremptory strike against a prospective juror under Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (19…
19-6190 Jermaine Gerald Cook, et al. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-10-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination racial-quotas sixth-amendment Did the Ninth Circuit's disposition of Petitioners' Batson claim, which minimized the constitutional import of the government prosecutor's offer to em…
19-6194 William Edward Sneed v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2019-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky certificate-of-appealability equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intentional-discrimination juror-discrimination racial-bias racial-discrimination third-circuit-court-of-appeals In light of the post-conviction court's finding of intentional discrimination—a finding that has not been challenged by any reviewing court—did the Th…
19-6070 Malcom McClenon v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-09-26 Denied IFP appeals appellate-review batson-challenge constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fifth-circuit habeas-corpus harmless-error judicial-review sufficiency-of-evidence 1. IS RELIEF DUE. TO AN CONVICTION I DEVOIN OF THE RUDIMENTARY DEMANDS OF FAIR PROCEDURE ? 2. DOES BATSON" DEFY A HARMLESS-ERROR ANALYSIS? BJ DOES A…
19-5904 Travis Dennis v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-09-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review batson-challenge constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-due-process due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-verdict sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence Reasonable jurists could find that the Courts have abused their discretion in accepting the Jury's verdict even though the Record supports that Ronald…
19-5591 Kirk Saintcalle v. Jeffrey A. Uttecht, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-08-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jury-selection peremptory-challenge racial-discrimination 1. Did the Ninth Circuit err in affirming the district court's denial of Kirk Saintcalle's petition for a writ of habeas corpus on the grounds that th…
19-5449 Richard Shelley v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial jury-selection peremptory-strike sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-fair-trial WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED IN FINDING THAT SHELLEY FAILED TO OBJECT TO THE GOVERNMENT'S USE OF A PEREMPTORY STRIKE, THEREBY CAUSING AN 5th AMEND…
19-5428 Herron Kent Duckett v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-08-01 Denied IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure deadly-weapon deadly-weapon-finding evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judgment-of-conviction judicial-review strickland-standard strickland-v-washington 1) Whether the decision of the court is in conflict with Supreme Court ruling concerning ineffective assistance of counsel under STRICKLAND v. WASHING…
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…
18-9710 Lee Turner, Jr. v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-06-18 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky civil-rights comparative-juror-analysis discrimination due-process equal-protection johnson-v-california jury-selection prima-facie-case prima-facie-discrimination prosecutorial-strikes racial-bias racial-discrimination standard-of-proof 1. Whether "mere statistics" are sufficient to demonstrate a prima facie case of discrimination under Batson v. Kentucky, 475 U.S. 79 (1986) and Johns…
18-9648 Jamelle Edward Armstrong v. California California 2019-06-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP african-american batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky due-process equal-protection federal-question jury-selection peremptory-challenges race-neutrality supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review Did the California Supreme Court improperly decide the issue of the race-neutrality of respondent's exercise of its trial peremptory challenges to exc…
18-9423 Ayanna Angle v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-05-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky constitutional-procedure equal-protection harmless-error judicial-review jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination When a court of appeals finds that a district court, in overruling an objection to the prosecution's use of peremptory juror strikes, failed to comple…
18A1208 Herron Kent Duckett v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-05-22 Presumed Complete batson-challenge constitutional-right habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-selection state-court-review Question not identified.
18-9339 Anthony Dajuan Yates v. California California 2019-05-20 Denied IFP batson batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky criminal-procedure disparate-impact equal-protection juror-selection jury-selection peremptory-challenge peremptory-challenges race-neutral-explanation racial-profiling I. Does a prosecutor's peremptory challenge of a prospective African-American juror based on the juror's perception of racial profiling by law enforce…
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…
18-8844 Farris G. Morris v. Tennessee Sixth Circuit 2019-04-16 Denied IFP recognized by Tyler-v-Cain to determine what opinions are subject to retroac 28-u.s.c.-2244(b)(3)(e) 28-usc-2244 batson-challenge capital-punishment civil-rights collateral-review due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jury-discrimination retroactive-application retroactivity supreme-court-authority tyler-v-cain 1. Does the Constitution permit Congress to enact 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(3)(E) to divest this Court of its authority, recognized by Tyler v. Cain, to det…
18-8748 Dajuan A. Alridge v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-04-09 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection jury-selection jury-unanimity juvenile-sentencing non-unanimous-jury prima-facie prima-facie-case racial-discrimination 1. Whether statistics alone are sufficient to demonstrate a prima facie case of discrimination in the first step of a Batson analysis? 2. Whether lif…
18-8692 Jerry Adams, Jr. v. Robert Neuschmid, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-04-03 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2254 appellate-review batson-challenge batson-claim equal-protection habeas-corpus jury-selection prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination standard-of-review state-court-review After the prosecutor admitted misrepresenting her actual reasons for striking a prospective juror, the trial judge was "troubled by" some of the prose…
18-8118 Alvin Davis, Jr. v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-02-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct second-amendment witness-tampering Was the Petitioner, Alvin Davis, Jr. denied a fair trial, by violations and conflict of state and federal law, Batson v Kentucky, Brady v Maryland, an…
18-7817 Andrew Paul Ceballos v. California California 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge Batson-v-Kentucky civil-rights disparate-impact due-process equal-protection jury-selection prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination scotus Courts often reject Batson claims where the prospective juror at issue has a relative with a criminal conviction, a reason that has a disparate impact…
18-7782 James E. Mason, Jr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-02-06 Denied IFP batson-challenge batson-challenges burden-of-proof confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process impeached-testimony ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel insufficient-evidence jury-instructions jury-selection race-neutral-challenges Reasonable jurists would conclude that the State obtained Mr. Masons with insufficient evidence. Jurists of reason would determine that Mr. Mason was…
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 …
18-7194 Brandon Lee Colbert v. California California 2018-12-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson batson-challenge impartial-jury jury-selection peremptory-challenge police-misconduct race-neutral race-neutral-reason sixth-amendment A United States Department of Justice investigation concluded that law enforcement in defendant's community systemically engages in racist police prac…
18-7144 Rodney Russell v. United States First Circuit 2018-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky civil-rights criminal-procedure-peremptory-challenges due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-selection peremptory-strike powers-v-ohio racial-discrimination standing I. Whether a district court has an obligation to inquire of the prosecution as to the substance behind their stated reasons as to why they used a pere…
18-7094 Floyd Daniel Smith v. California California 2018-12-19 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2)IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky due-process equal-protection flowers-v-mississippi jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination This case involves the killing of a white teenager by a black defendant. The case was so racially charged that the defense attorneys – who were also b…
18-7016 Tuad Damonn Washington v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-12-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky civil-rights constitutional-claims discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-selection peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination sixth-amendment standing 1. Would jurists of reason find the district courts assesment of Washington's constitutional claims debatable or wrong; or that the petition should ha…
18-6919 Marcelo Joel Santos-Cordero v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-12-06 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP batson batson-challenge circuit-split civil-rights discriminatory-intent due-process equal-protection judicial-review jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike racial-discrimination Following a remand, must a trial court that is retrospectively analyzing whether a peremptory strike violated Batson's prohibition against discriminat…
18-6802 Patrick Kitlas v. F. B. Haws, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied IFP actual-reason actual-reasons batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky due-process equal-protection evidentiary-hearing jury-selection ninth-circuit peremptory-strike prosecutor-reasons prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986) requires prosecutors to provide their actual reasons for striking jurors. The prosecutor here provided reasons …
18-6480 Gregory Hill v. James Gammon, Superintendent, Moberly Correctional Center Eighth Circuit 2018-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP anderson-v-bessemer-city batson-challenge batson-claim constitutional-review due-process eighth-circuit eighth-circuit-jurisprudence federal-habeas jury-selection racial-discrimination racial-discrimination-in-jury-selection thomas-v-keohane Gregory Hill's case raises pressing issues of National importance: Whether and to what extent the criminal justice system tolerates racial discriminat…
18-352 South Carolina v. Raymond Lewis Young South Carolina 2018-09-18 Denied appellate-review batson-challenge batson-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure deference-to-trial-court discretionary-review equal-protection federal-question jury-selection peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination trial-court-deference Whether, upon reversing Respondent's conviction on grounds that: "The trial court erred in failing to conduct a proper analysis under the third step o…
18-5880 Virginia S. Caudill v. Janet Conover, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-09-05 Denied IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky circumstantial-evidence civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-selection peremptory-challenges prosecutorial-discrimination racial-discrimination sixth-amendment standing Virginia Caudill stands convicted of capital murder. The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky dismissed her Petition for Habeas Co…
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…
18-5233 Edgar Alejandro Radillo, et al. v. Rosemary Ndoh, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-07-13 Denied IFP batson-challenge civil-rights due-process equal-protection Fourteenth-Amendment jury-selection minority-jurors non-minority-jurors peremptory-challenges prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-motivation racial-discrimination Sixth-Amendment 1. In a case where the prosecutor has exercised peremptory challenges against minority panelists citing traits shared by non-minority panelists who we…
18-5152 Rodney Howard v. United States Third Circuit 2018-07-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky criminal-procedure equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes prima-facie prima-facie-case prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination 1. Does a black defendant make a prima facie showing of discriminatory use of peremptory strikes under Batson's first step when he demonstrates that t…
24A409 Richard Bernard Moore v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections South Carolina Denied batson-challenge death-penalty equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination Question not identified.