bench-trial
12 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-605 | James Maharg v. Connecticut | Connecticut | 2025-11-24 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review bench-trial coerced-confession constitutional-error due-process harmless-error | Whether, in a criminal bench trial for murder, a trial judge who admits over objection a defendant's coerced confession to that offense may later insu… |
| 24-5931 | Terrell Dashaun Wesley v. Tyrone Baker, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2024-11-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bench-trial closing-arguments herring-error judicial-procedure trial-rights verdict-timing | Whether a reversible Herring error occurs only when a trial Judge denies Closing arguments altogether or also when the Judge at a bench trial permits … |
| 24A86 | Shyne V. Anderson v. Cynthia Davis, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2024-07-25 | Presumed Complete | bench-trial criminal-joinder due-process fair-trial multiple-offenses victim-testimony | Question not identified. | |
| 23A65 | Jacob Hilbert v. Missouri | Missouri | 2023-07-24 | Presumed Complete | bench-trial criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-trial-waiver sixth-amendment valid-waiver | Question not identified. | |
| 22-574 | Tiffany Lay, et vir v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-12-21 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review bench-trial bench-trials circuit-court-review civil-procedure federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure findings-of-fact judicial-findings obiter-dictum standard-of-review stare-decisis | 1. Whether Federal District Court judges in conducting complex bench trials, by issuing ostensible "findings" which fail to specially and specifically… |
| 21-7548 | Sergey Genadievich Novitskiy v. Colorado | Colorado | 2022-04-05 | Denied | IFP | bench-trial burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial standard-of-proof waiver | 1. Whether Petitioner's choice to proceed to a bench trial, instead of a jury trial, in a criminal case, lowers/lessens the prosecution burden of proo… |
| 20-5616 | Zachary Knotts v. West Virginia | West Virginia | 2020-09-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bench-trial competency-hearing constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process indictment-disposition mental-competency proof-standard trial-jurisdiction | If a defendant is indicted and found not competent to stand trial, is the court obligated to write a final order disposing of the case when the court … |
| 19-7919 | Darius Latrell King v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-03-10 | GVR | IFP | 18-usc-922(g) 9th-circuit-appeal bench-trial felon-in-possession knowledge-requirement prohibited-status stipulated-facts | 1. Mr. King was found guilty of being a felon in possession of a firearm after a stipulated facts bench trial where the only stipulated fact related t… |
| 18-8046 | Stephen L. Paulmier v. Hawaii | Hawaii | 2019-02-21 | Denied | IFP | bench-trial constitutional-rights due-process family-court family-court-procedure hawaii-family-court-rules jury-trial jury-trial-waiver trial-continuance | 1. Whether the ICA gravely erred in failing to recognize Stephen Paulmier's constitutional rights to due process and/or find his waiver of a jury tria… |
| 18-7951 | Cornell Winfrei McClure v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-02-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2255-motion bench-trial due-process impartiality ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-recusal sua-sponte waiver-of-jury-trial | 1. Should a judge recuse ones self from reviewing a motion that is challeging their rulings made during a bench trial? 2. Is it ineffective assistanc… |
| 18-753 | Robert Stephen Couturier v. Presiding Judge, Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-12-12 | Denied | arrest-warrant bench-trial certificate-of-appealability due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury ineffective-assistance judicial-impartiality | Did the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals error when it denied The Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability? Is a Defendant denied the right to a fair tr… | |
| 18-6324 | Akinlabi Coleman v. Colorado | Colorado | 2018-10-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bench-trial constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habitual-criminal habitual-offender jury-trial sixth-amendment | 1) Were Mr. Coleman's Sixth Amendment rights to a jury determination of every element of an offense violated when he was only allowed a bench trial to… |