closing-arguments
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25A651 | Alabama v. Michael Anthony Powell | Alabama | 2025-12-03 | Application | closing-arguments constitutional-violation fifth-amendment harmless-error prosecutorial-comments right-to-silence | Question not identified. | |
| 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 … |
| 23-7105 | Katherine Barrett v. Kentucky | Kentucky | 2024-03-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | closing-arguments criminal-procedure due-process home-incarceration jail-credit jury-instructions presumption-of-innocence prosecutorial-misconduct | I. THE PROSECUTOR ENGAGED IN FLAGARANT MISCONDUCT WHEN HE TOLD THE JURY IN CLOSING "THAT THE PRESUMPTION OF INNOCENCE. . .IS GONE " II. DID TRIAL C… |
| 23-5971 | Kevondric Fezia v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-11-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | closing-arguments confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process hearsay jury non-testifying-witness prosecutorial-argument sixth-amendment witness-testimony | Does the Confrontation Clause apply to statements made by a prosecutor during closing arguments that detail for the jury what a non-testifying witness… |
| 22-7213 | Brian Evan Roth v. Florida | Florida | 2023-04-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof civil-rights closing-arguments criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-introduction judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct trial-procedure | 1. Did thetrial Court Err in allowing oncharged erimes not containod in the in farmatuen, to he introduced and sfotlighted as testimany? As well as be… |
| 22-6150 | Walter Raglin v. Tim Shoop, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2022-11-23 | Denied | IFP | capital-murder capital-punishment closing-arguments criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance procedural-bar res-judicata state-procedural-bar trial-counsel voir-dire | 1. Whether a capital defendant is deprived of the effective assistance of trial counsel when his lawyers repeatedly concede guilt of aggravated murder… |
| 21-7836 | Bruce Edward Bingham, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2022-05-11 | Denied | IFP | burden-of-proof closing-arguments constitutional-ineffective-assistance criminal-procedure discovery-violation due-process due-process-violation prosecutorial-misconduct remorse right-to-counsel | Was the prosecutions remarks regarding the "conscience of the community" and "remorse" prosecutorial misconduct , or allowable argument? Was trial cd… |
| 21-1339 | Carlton Richard Nebergall v. Florida | Florida | 2022-04-08 | Denied | Response Waived | closing-arguments covid-19 covid-19-context deliberation-pressure due-process fair-trial impartial-jury judicial-instruction jury-coercion | Did the trial court violate Petitioner's constitutional right to a fair and impartial jury by creating a substantial risk that one or more jurors felt… |
| 21-7380 | Frank Henderson Brown v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2022-03-15 | Denied | IFP | appeal civil-rights closing-arguments due-process evidence-rules ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct standing trial-court-error | A. Total Court erred B) By allowing veto AHO frsSecoriwl te argue FeetS nor mM ey LAence . B. the Prosewre erved 6). by agus fattS not (na evidence … |
| 21-5315 | Rafael Arturo Coto Chinchilla v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2021-08-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | closing-arguments criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct sufficiency-of-evidence trial-error | 1. WAS THE EVIDENCE IN THE INSTANT CASE INSUFFICIENT TO SUPPORT A GUILTY VERDICT ON ALL THREE COUNTS OF THE BILL OF INFORMATION? 2. DID THE TRIAL COU… |
| 20-6317 | Robert Petty v. Indiana | Indiana | 2020-11-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review closing-arguments constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment trial-procedure | 1. Whether the Indiana Courts erred denying Appellant was deprived effective assistance of trial counsel during closing arguments and sentencing viola… |
| 20-5463 | Rowmoto Rogers v. Gregory Skipper, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2020-08-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | closing-arguments constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process prosecutorial-misconduct trial-procedure witness-credibility | WHETHER THE PROSECUTOR WAS IMPROPERLY ALLOWED TO VOUCH FOR THE CREDIBILITY OF HIS STAR WITNESS DURING CLOSING ARGUMENTS, DENYING VARIOUS CONSTITUTIONA… |
| 19-8542 | Brian Lamar Brown v. Nevada, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-05-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | closing-arguments criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process fair-trial harmless-error jury-instructions legal-prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct | Whether the prosecutor committed prejudicial misconduct during closing arguments? |
| 19-8479 | Bernard J. Fleming v. United States | District of Columbia | 2020-05-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | closing-arguments criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial personal-opinion prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-vouching vouching witness-credibility | When do comments by a prosecutor in her final and rebuttal arguments to the jury in a criminal case that affirm the veracity of the government's chief… |
| 19-7654 | Jean Roussel Eloi v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-02-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-process appeal-stages closing-arguments conviction defenses government-misconduct ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection relationship-evidence sealed-records sentencing-guidelines | I.) Whether counsel was ineffective for not pursuing all the way through the appeal stages, the government's statement during closing arguments that… |
| 19-573 | Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin v. Timothy C. Ward, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-11-01 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | brecht-standard brecht-v-abrahamson closing-arguments constitutional-error fifth-amendment habeas-corpus harmless-error prosecutorial-misconduct substantial-defense | Under Brecht v. Abrahamson, a federal court cannot grant habeas relief unless a constitutional error had a "substantial and injurious effect or influe… |
| 19-5566 | Reilies Wayne Miller v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-08-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | chapman-v-california closing-arguments darden-v-wainwright due-process expert-witness fourteenth-amendment harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions self-defense sixth-amendment | 1. Consistent with the Fourteenth Amendment and Chanman v. California . 386 U.S. 18, 87 S.Ct. 824, 17 L.Ed.2d 705 (1967) could the harmless error anal… |
| 18-9630 | Michael Mancil Brown v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-06-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment 6th-amendment,effective-counsel,mistrial,closing-a closing-arguments constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process effective-counsel mistrial sixth-amendment trial trial-rights | Was the Petitioners 6th Amendment Righ ts to effective counsel violated when Petitioner's Attorney refused a mistrial offer by the Court without consu… |
| 18-9566 | Jason Brady Sain v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2019-06-06 | Denied | IFP | closing-arguments credibility due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment theory-of-the-case witness-credibility | 1. WAS PETITIONER'S SIXTH AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS TO A FAIR TRIAL VIOLATED WHEN THE PROSECUTOR COMMITTED PLAIN AND OBVIOUS CONSTITUTIONAL ERRO… |