| 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… |
| 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… |
| 23-6804 |
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 … |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 22-6107 |
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… |
| 22-6057 |
Tony Terrell Clark v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2022-11-15 |
Denied |
Relisted (15)IFP |
batson-v-kentucky civil-rights due-process flowers-v-mississippi jury-selection racial-discrimination |
I. Whether Mississippi continues in the present case to erroneously misapply Batson v. Kentucky by considering the prosecutor's purported justificatio… |
| 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… |
| 22-5671 |
Andre Juvell Byrd v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2022-09-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
batson-framework batson-v-kentucky due-process equal-protection intentional-discrimination jury-selection mccollum-v-georgia peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination |
Did the Supreme Court of Georgia violate the Equal Protection of the Laws by disallowing three of Petitioner's peremptory challenges to white jurors a… |
| 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… |
| 21-7475 |
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… |
| 21-7437 |
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… |
| 21-7302 |
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… |
| 21-950 |
Ker'Sean Olajuwa Ramey v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-29 |
Denied |
|
28-usc-2254 batson-claim batson-v-kentucky certificate-of-appealability fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance martinez-trevino peremptory-strike racial-bias |
1. In rejecting Ramey's claim for relief under Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986) ("Batson Claim") and ignoring Ramey's argument that 28 U.S.C. § … |
| 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… |
| 21-6580 |
Kevin Johnson v. Troy Steele, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-12-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review batson-claim Batson-v-Kentucky capital-habeas capital-punishment certificate-of-appealability certificates-of-appealability eighth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Martinez-v-Ryan |
1. Does the Eighth Circuit's practice of issuing unexplained blanket denials of certificates of appealability in capital habeas cases conflict with 28… |
| 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… |
| 21-6267 |
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 … |
| 21-5957 |
Manuela Villa de Morales v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
batson-v-kentucky civil-rights fifth-circuit jury-selection racial-discrimination supervisory-powers |
Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Circuit")–which affirmed the decision of the United States Ma… |
| 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… |
| 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 … |
| 20-1431 |
Charmell Brown v. Alex Jones, Acting Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-04-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
batson-framework batson-v-kentucky jury-selection peremptory-strike pretext prima-facie-case prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination |
Whether, at Batson's first step and in the absence of any explanation from the prosecutor, a court may rely on factors apparent in the record to expla… |
| 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… |
| 20-1262 |
MarySusan Ward v. Louisville Metro Government |
Kentucky |
2021-03-11 |
Denied |
|
batson-v-kentucky civil-rights equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges supremacy-clause |
This Court in Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986) held that the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment prohibited litig… |
| 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… |
| 20-697 |
Orlando Cordia Hall v. T. J. Watson, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-11-19 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 batson-claim batson-v-kentucky constitutional-error death-penalty federal-procedure habeas-corpus racial-discrimination |
When Petitioner, a Black man, was sentenced to death in a Texas federal courtroom after the prosecution struck four out of five Black prospective juro… |
| 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… |
| 20-5685 |
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… |
| 20-5036 |
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… |
| 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… |
| 19-8196 |
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… |
| 19-7108 |
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 |
Denied |
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… |
| 19-6331 |
Joseren Deshune Delancy v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
batson-framework Batson-v-Kentucky civil-rights constitutional-challenge equal-protection mccleskey-v-kemp prima-facie-case racial-discrimination sentencing sentencing-bias supreme-court-precedent |
Whether this Court should overrule McCleskey v. Kemp, 481 U.S. 279 (1987), and adopt the Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986), framework that a defe… |
| 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… |
| 19-6194 |
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… |
| 19-6190 |
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… |
| 19-5591 |
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… |
| 19-5132 |
Kenneth D. Sills v. Anne L. Precythe, Director, Missouri Department of Corrections |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
batson-v-kentucky constitutional-rights criminal-procedure flowers-v-mississippi ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection peremptory-challenges prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination sixth-amendment |
WHETHER CERTIORARI SHOULD BE GRANTED WHERE TRIAL COUNSEL WAS INEFFECTIVE IN FAILING TO OBJECT TO THE PROSECUTIONS 'S PRETEXTUAL EXPLANATION FOR EXERCI… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 18-8748 |
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… |
| 18-8612 |
Jason Johnson v. Paul M. Gonyea, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-03-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
batson-v-kentucky civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus jury-selection racial-discrimination |
DID TRIAL COURT UNREASONABLY APPLY SUPREME COURT'S PRECEDENT WHEN IT BYPASSED STEP 3 OF THE BATSON v. KENTUCKY REQUIREMENT'S IN IT'S CONSIDERATION OF … |
| 18-8546 |
Gerald Delane Murray v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-03-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence batson-v-kentucky batson-violation brady-violation civil-rights conflict-counsel constitutional-violations cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jailhouse-informant post-conviction post-conviction-relief |
THE COURT SHOULD GRANT THE WRIT TO CORRECT AN INJUSTICE IN STATE COURT WHERE POST-CONVICTION COUNSEL UNDERMINED CLAIMS, ABUSED THE PROCESS, WASTED JUD… |
| 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… |
| 18-7536 |
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 … |
| 18-7259 |
Jack E. Allen v. Barry Smith, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Houtzdale |
Pennsylvania |
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
batson-v-kentucky civil-rights due-process false-imprisonment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance innocence reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment |
DID THE PETITIONER GIVE THE FIRST OPPORTUNITY OF THE STATE SUPREME COURT TO RESOLVE SUCH CLAIMS 1ISSUES,CONTENTIONS IN A STATE HABEAS CORPUS?.
DID TH… |
| 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… |
| 18-6802 |
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 … |
| 18-6624 |
Farris Genner Morris v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2018-11-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
batson-challenge-review batson-v-kentucky collateral-review due-process equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination |
Where the trial prosecutor's rationale for striking the lone black juror applied "just as well" to two white jurors, Foster v. Chatman, 136 S. Ct. 173… |
| 18-6286 |
Lisa Jo Chamberlin v. Pelicia E. Hall, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-10 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (2)IFP |
batson batson-v-kentucky civil-rights comparative-juror-analysis equal-protection habeas-corpus jury-selection peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination |
1. Whether a court reviewing a Batson claim may consider reasons distinguishing stricken jurors from those accepted by the prosecutor when the disting… |
| 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… |
| 18-5152 |
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… |