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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6812 | Himen Ross v. United States | Second Circuit | 2026-02-13 | Pending | IFP | constitutional-fairness criminal-trial district-court-discretion gang-evidence jury-prejudice mistrial-motion | 1. Whether the district court abused its discretion by allowing the government to introduce highly prejudicial evidence and argument linking Ross to a… |
| 25-6445 | Charlie Bullock v. Virginia | Virginia | 2025-12-30 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-trial due-process false-testimony witness-testimony | (1) . In claim number two of petitioner's state "Motion to Vacate", was the petitioner's 14th Amendment Due Process Rights violated when Detective Cuf… |
| 25A580 | Tony Phillips v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-11-17 | Application | appellate-review criminal-trial due-process judicial-discretion life-imprisonment sentencing | Question not identified. | |
| 25-6053 | Marchello Moore v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-11-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-trial defendant-appearance fact-finder fair-trial precedential-case sixth-circuit | (1) Whether the Sixth Circuit erred by prohibiting fact-finders in a criminal trial from considering the in-court appearance of the defendant as it co… |
| 25A308 | Ynddy Blanc v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-09-17 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review circuit-court conviction-standard criminal-trial jury-deadlock mistrial | Question not identified. | |
| 25-5579 | Kevin Marvell Jackson v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-09-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-trial due-process fifth-amendment judicial-coercion jury-instructions sixth-amendment | Whether the district violate d petitioner's Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights to due process and a fair trial by issuing repeated instructions that for… |
| 25-5520 | Dennis Wilson v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2025-09-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-trial due-process fundamental-rights plea-agreement rights-to-counsel sentencing | Whether the predicted outcome and the potential sentence faced by Mr. Wilson, should he be convicted at trial, is to be compared to the plea agreement… |
| 25A18 | Juan Carlos Sandoval-Rodriguez v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-07-08 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-standard criminal-trial due-process fourth-circuit jury-instruction reasonable-doubt | Whether a trial court in criminal proceedings must, upon request from the jury or the defendant, issue an instruction regarding the meaning of the "be… | |
| 25A8 | Jose Joya Parada, Oscar Armando Sorto Romero, Milton Portillo Rodriguez, and Juan Carlos Sandoval Rodriguez v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-07-01 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-interpretation criminal-trial jury-composition jury-size sixth-amendment williams-v-florida | Question not identified. | |
| 24-7439 | In Re Terron Dizzley | 2025-06-17 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | burden-of-proof criminal-trial double-jeopardy fifth-amendment judicial-discretion trial-court-jurisdiction | Did the trial court exceed its jurisdiction in violation of the Fifth Amendment's Double Jeopardy Clause by trying Mr. Dizzley a second time for the c… | |
| 24-7100 | Gerald Brent Harris v. Scott Frauenheim, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2025-04-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-trial district-court due-process fundamental-fairness gvr-order intervening-decision | Whether the Court should issue a GVR order to allow the district court to apply the intervening decision in Andrew v. White, 145 S. Ct. 75 (2025), to … |
| 24-6875 | Kayle B. Bates v. Florida | Florida | 2025-03-27 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-trial juror-bias jury-contact legal-procedure post-verdict-communication | Whether Florida unconstitutionally limits post-verdict contact between former jurors and attorneys. |
| 24-6376 | Marion Bowman, Jr. v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. | South Carolina | 2025-01-23 | Denied | IFP | capital-sentencing constitutional-rights criminal-trial due-process ineffective-assistance racial-bias | Marion Bowman's capital trial counsel predicated his defense upon, and repeatedly injected, odious racial stereotypes about Bowman, a black man, and h… |
| 24-780 | Anthony Blue v. New York | New York | 2025-01-23 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | constitutional-right criminal-trial defendant-understanding right-to-counsel sentencing-range waiver | Whether a valid waiver of the constitutional right to counsel at trial requires that the defendant understood, at the time of the waiver, the "range o… |
| 24-6323 | Ernest Green v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-01-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-trial impartial-jury racial-bias sixth-amendment voir-dire | In a criminal trial, does the right to an impartial jury, guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment, require a defendant of a minority race to be afforded voi… |
| 24-5547 | Clifton Bean v. Florida | Florida | 2024-09-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-trial fourteenth-amendment jury-composition life-sentence sixth-amendment | Does the Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a twelve person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony that requ… |
| 24-121 | John Won v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-08-02 | Denied | Amici (1) | confrontation-clause constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process evidence exceptional-circumstances interest-of-justice sixth-amendment two-way-video video-testimony | Whether the Confrontation Clause contains an exception that permits the government to present testimony at a criminal trial by two-way video so long a… |
| 23-7807 | Marcus Anthony Barnes v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-06-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-procedure,due-process,criminal-trial,federal court-of-appeals criminal-trial factual-evidence fifth-amendment rule-60b | 1. Whether descriptions or summary of evidence, is sufficiently accurate enough to determine a Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b)(1) motion allegin… |
| 23-7711 | Philong Nghia Huynh v. J. Lizarraga | Ninth Circuit | 2024-06-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure criminal-trial forensic-nurse sixth-amendment surrogate-nurse surrogate-testimony testimonial-statements testimony | Whether the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment permits the prosecution in a criminal trial to present testimony by a surrogate nurse conveyin… |
| 23-7697 | Zachary Kelsey v. Tim Garrett, Warden, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-06-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cause-of-death closing-argument criminal-procedure criminal-trial forensic-pathologist forensic-pathology habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel second-degree-murder sixth-amendment | 1. Whether Zachary Kelsey was deprived of the effective assistance of counsel when trial counsel waived Kelsey's closing argument at trial. 2. Whethe… |
| 23-7537 | Mike Austin Anderson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-05-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process judicial-procedure jury-instructions jury-verdict motion-to-revoke recusal-motion standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence | 1) Whether the district court erred by finding that the prosecution produced sufficient evidence at trial for a reasonable jury to return a guilty ver… |
| 23-7521 | Keith Lamar Rodgers v. Florida | Florida | 2024-05-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23A1028 | Kalamice Keson Piggee v. Gena Jones, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2024-05-20 | Presumed Complete | competency-hearing criminal-trial due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mental-health | Question not identified. | |
| 23-7472 | Torrie Chermaine Austin v. Florida | Florida | 2024-05-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-7387 | Justin Luis Sanchez v. Florida | Florida | 2024-05-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition sixth-amendment trial-by-jury | Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-7356 | Jonathan Burnett v. Georgia | Georgia | 2024-05-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-molestation crime-victims criminal-procedure criminal-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection voir-dire | WHETHER TRIAL COUNSEL'S FAILURE DURING VOIR DIRE IN A CHILD MOLESTATION CASE TO EXPLORE AND INVESTIGATE WHETHER JURORS HAD BEEN CRIME VICTIMS (DIRECTL… |
| 23-7298 | Jonathan Wayne Daniels v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-04-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process eyewitness-identification hobbs-act-robbery jury-instruction jury-instructions suggestive-identification suggestive-procedure third-circuit | Whether petitioner's jury was adequately "warn[ed] to take care in appraising identification evidence," in accordance with due process, where his jury… |
| 23-7272 | Matthew Michael Albritton v. Florida | Florida | 2024-04-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-7244 | Clarence F. Stephenson v. Florida | Florida | 2024-04-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial life-felony sixth-amendment | I. Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a twelve-person jury when the defendant is charged with a life felony… |
| 23-7245 | Dustin Jay Harpel v. Florida | Florida | 2024-04-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-7162 | James Hodge v. Florida | Florida | 2024-04-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-7150 | Elana Gordon v. Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 2024-04-05 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure criminal-trial expert-testimony expert-witness forensic-evidence forensic-testimony right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-counsel | 1. Whether the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment permits the prosecution in a criminal trial to present testimony by a substitute forensic e… |
| 23-7078 | Jeffery Wayne Taylor v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-03-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure criminal-trial cross-examination due-process evidence first-step-act out-of-court-statements sixth-amendment | I. IS IT A VIOLATION OF THE CONFRONTATION CLAUSE WHEN EXERCISING OUT'S RIGHT TO TRIAL, THAT AN OUT-OF-COURT STATEMENT CONNECTING THE DEFENDANT DIRECTL… |
| 23-6937 | Mahmoud Almuhtaseb v. Florida | Florida | 2024-03-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-6891 | Joshua Terrel Brown v. Florida | Florida | 2024-03-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-trial felony fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-size sixth-amendment trial-by-jury williams-v-florida | Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a twelve-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-6901 | Joshua Lane Tansil v. Florida | Florida | 2024-03-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-6723 | Brandon Keith Owensby v. Florida | Florida | 2024-02-12 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-6622 | Miguel Jaimes-Luviano v. Florida | Florida | 2024-01-30 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial felony fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-size jury-trial sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a twelve-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-6597 | Abraham Fagot Mejia v. Florida | Florida | 2024-01-26 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-6558 | Freddie Quinn v. Florida | Florida | 2024-01-24 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-6527 | Jermaine Anderson, Jr. v. Florida | Florida | 2024-01-22 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition sixth-amendment trial-by-jury | Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-6358 | Devadrick Markevin Booker v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-12-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process jury-instructions prosecutorial-evidence reasonable-doubt standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether the district court erred by finding that the prosecution produced sufficient evidence at trial for a reasonable jury to return guilty verdicts… |
| 23-6304 | Onterrious V. Tillman v. Florida | Florida | 2023-12-19 | Denied | Relisted (5)IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-6289 | Wisben Sanon v. Florida | Florida | 2023-12-18 | Denied | Relisted (5)IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition sixth-amendment trial-by-jury | Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23A555 | Brandon Michael Council v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-12-15 | Presumed Complete | competency-hearing criminal-trial due-process ineffective-assistance mental-competence supreme-court-review | Question not identified. | |
| 23-6175 | Phillip A. Kenner v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-12-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process evidence-standard government-witness napue-standard napue-v-illinois perjury prosecutorial-misconduct witness-perjury | At a criminal trial, Petitioner sought to confront a Government witness with notes of an interview, taken by Government agents, which reflected a prio… |
| 23-6180 | Clifford Allen Follansbee v. Arizona | Arizona | 2023-12-06 | Denied | IFP | arizona-constitution constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process judicial-review procedural-fairness professional-norm structural-error united-states-constitution | Are Arizona. Judiciaries violating 4be Doe. Process Clause <dr 4be Arizona. and Un;4ed States ConoViVuWm / bu, practicing a Professional fJocm AWsA is… |
| 23-6143 | Howard Nelson Bartee, III v. Florida | Florida | 2023-12-01 | Denied | Relisted (6)IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition sixth-amendment trial-by-jury | Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-6106 | Damion Edward Cruz-Benavente v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-11-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-standard constitutional-error criminal-procedure criminal-trial cumulative-error cumulative-errors due-process harmless-error judicial-review procedural-fairness standard-of-review verdict-influence | To determine whether a criminal trial was unfair because of cumulative errors, does a court review whether the aggregate errors—both preserved and for… |
| 23-6049 | Jimmie Jerome Manning, Jr. v. Florida | Florida | 2023-11-17 | Denied | Relisted (8)IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial felony fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-size jury-trial sixth-amendment williams-v-florida | Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-5965 | Cody Enrriquez v. Florida | Florida | 2023-11-07 | Denied | Relisted (9)IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-5938 | Loren J. Larson, Jr. v. Alaska | Alaska | 2023-11-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment juror-testimony sixth-amendment structural-error | In Alvarez-Perdomo v. State , 454 P.3d 998, 999 (Alaska 2019), the Alaska Supreme Court held that compelling a defendant to testify in violation of t… |
| 23-5806 | Jason Wayne Oien v. Chad Pringle, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2023-10-18 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process jury-instructions marijuana prejudicial-evidence retroactivity sentencing | Question not identified. |
| 23-5618 | Gustavo Tijerina Sandoval v. Texas | Texas | 2023-09-20 | Denied | Relisted (10)IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process jury-empanelment jury-selection lower-court-split trial-procedure | 1. Given that jury selection is one of the most critical phases of a criminal trial, how should courts determine when jury empanelment begins for a pa… |
| 23-5579 | Fitzroy C. Morton v. Florida | Florida | 2023-09-14 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (18)IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-5570 | Scottie Andrea Jackson v. Florida | Florida | 2023-09-13 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (18)IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-5554 | Cameron L. Hickman v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-09-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process jury-instructions prosecutorial-burden reasonable-doubt sexual-assault standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether the prosecution presented sufficient evidence at trial to establish the elements of the alleged crime. |
| 23-5486 | Gilberto Gonzalez-Gonzalez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-08-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-shifting carella-v-california criminal-trial due-process francis-v-franklin joint-possession jury-instructions legal-precedent mandatory-presumptions | Whether, after Francis v. Franklin, 471 U.S. 307 (1985) and Carella v. California, 491 U.S. 263 (1989), the burden-shifting jury instructions on joint… |
| 23-5193 | Bradley Ross Fairbourn v. Neicole Morden, Warden, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2023-07-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus impliedly-biased-juror juror-bias strickland-standard strickland-v-washington structural-error weaver-v-massachusetts | Whether, in light of this Court's decision in Weaver v. Massachusetts , __ U.S. __, 137 S. Ct. 1899, 198 L. Ed. 2d 420 (2017), the actual -prejudi ce … |
| 23-5171 | Natoya Cunningham v. Florida | Florida | 2023-07-21 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (19)IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition sixth-amendment trial-by-jury | Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-5173 | Jose Luis Guzman v. Florida | Florida | 2023-07-21 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (18)IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process felony felony-proceedings fourteenth-amendment jury-composition jury-trial sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony? |
| 23-5023 | Kirby R. Thomas v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2023-07-03 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-rights criminal-trial due-process equal-protection fair-trial impartial-jury jury-selection petit-venire racial-discrimination | 1) Whether Louisiana deprived Mr. Thomas of his right to an impartial jury trial before his peers through a petit venire selection process that effect… |
| 22-7460 | Carlos Darnell Dixon v. Tennessee | Tennessee | 2023-05-04 | Denied | IFP | 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process evidence firearm-possession jury-inference jury-trial second-amendment | The issue presented in this application has never been addressed by this Court; to wit, to what extent may the State violate a citizen's right to bear… |
| 22-989 | Rodney Lynn Dalton v. Arizona | Arizona | 2023-04-11 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-trial cumulative-error due-process prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review | What is the appropriate standard for determining cumulative prosecutorial misconduct in a criminal trial? |
| 22-7033 | DeAndre Forrest v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-03-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment | 1. Whether Forrest's Sixth Amendment was violated when his counsel conceeded his guilt during trial? 2. Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals Er… |
| 22-899 | Jason Smith v. Arizona | Arizona | 2023-03-16 | Judgment Issued | Amici (10)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 6th-amendment confrontation-clause criminal-procedure criminal-trial expert-testimony forensic-analysis sixth-amendment subpoena testimonial-evidence | Whether the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment permits the prosecution in a criminal trial to present testimony by a substitute expert convey… |
| 22-6781 | Samuel Adkins v. Texas | Texas | 2023-02-14 | Denied | IFP | attorney-client-relationship criminal-trial effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance pre-trial-proceedings sexual-abuse sixth-amendment trial | Did the state court err when it held that Petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to the Effective assistance of counsel was not violated where Petitioner … |
| 22-6467 | Louis Antonio Zayas v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-01-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certiorari controlled-substances criminal-procedure criminal-trial directed-verdict due-process evidence-disclosure harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions prosecutorial-conduct | 1. Should the Supreme Court grant certiorari to consider whether the erroneous decision of the Trial Court to instruct the jury that the United States… |
| 22-6209 | Mayeli Molina v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-12-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial dual-role-witnesses due-process expert-testimony jury-instructions sentencing sentencing-standards substantial-rights witness-testimony | 1. Whether Molina's substantial rights were affected when two-thirds of the Government's witnesses testified in dual roles as experts and fact witness… |
| 22-6180 | Alvaro Noe Mendoza-Valencia v. Oregon | Oregon | 2022-11-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attorney-client-relationship criminal-trial due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance jury-trial right-to-counsel sixth-amendment substitution-counsel | 1. Can a state trial court deny a criminal defendant's request for substitution counsel without any reasonable inquiry into trial counsel's performanc… |
| 22-6155 | Ryan McGuire v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-11-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation confrontation-clause criminal-trial cross-examination due-process fair-trial impeachment impeachment-evidence law-enforcement | 1. Does a trial court's ruling excluding evidence at trial violate a criminal defendant's right to due process, including the rights to confront and e… |
| 22-487 | Douglas Tyrone Armstrong v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2022-11-22 | Denied | Response Waived | ABA-standards capital-murder constitutional-deficiency criminal-trial habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prevailing-norms professional-competence | Whether an incarcerated inmate's trial counsel provided constitutionally deficient representation under the "prevailing norms" of the American Bar Ass… |
| 22-399 | Adam Dean Brown v. Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-10-31 | Denied | accident-reconstruction burden-of-proof certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process evidence expert-testimony ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct traffic-accident | Did Petitioner satisfy the burden for the issuance of a certificate of appealability on his ineffective assistance of counsel claims where his trial a… | |
| 22-5947 | Kevin Johnson v. Missouri | Missouri | 2022-10-31 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure criminal-trial death-penalty eighth-amendment juror-misconduct juvenile-justice mental-health mental-impairment racial-bias | 1. In light of a court's duty to issue a remedy that "neutralize[s] the taint of a constitutional violation" while avoiding the grant of "a windfall t… |
| 22-5840 | Joseph Shook v. Florida, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-10-14 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-trial due-process evidence evidence-admission evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jury-selection life-sentence prejudice prejudicial-testimony right-to-remain-silent | Whether a Petitioner who is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole is denied his constitutional rights do to trial court err by: A… |
| 22-5733 | Robert Brown, II v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-10-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-trial evidence fair-trial jury jury-bias perjury perjury-evidence rico rico-conspiracy sixth-amendment | The Government here alleged the Seven Mile Bloods operated as an enterprise in Detroit, Michigan, in an area known as the "Red Zone." The Government a… |
| 22-5520 | Anthony Sims, Jr. v. New Jersey | New Jersey | 2022-09-07 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause criminal-trial cross-examination hearsay hearsay-statement memory-loss pre-trial-hearing sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence | The Confrontation Clause bars testimonial hearsay when the defendant has not had the opportunity for cross-examination. At Mr. Sims' trial for attempt… |
| 22-5506 | Kacey Lewis v. Angel Quiros, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction | Connecticut | 2022-09-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial habeas-corpus judicial-discretion state-court-proceedings | I. WHETHER THE PETITIONER WAS' DEPRIVED OF HIS RIGHTS TO A FAIR ' TRIAL DURING HIS 2009 CRIMINAL TRIAL COURT PROCEEDINGS IN THE JUDICIAL'DISTRICT OF… |
| 22-5471 | Tremain Lamar Braxton, Timothy Roy Mason, and Darrell Lee-Lamont Summers, II v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-08-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause confrontation-rights criminal-sexual-conduct criminal-trial cross-examination evidence-exclusion incentive-to-testify sixth-amendment witness-credibility | Whether a defendant's Sixth Amendment confrontation rights are violated when a trial court bars all cross-examination about events that concededly too… |
| 22-5458 | Kenneth Lainell Davis v. Florida | Florida | 2022-08-29 | Denied | IFP | criminal-defendant criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process eighth-amendment felony jury jury-composition juvenile-sentencing mandatory-minimum sixth-amendment | 1. Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a twelve-person jury to try a criminal defendant accused of a felony offense. 2. Whether the imposition of a … |
| 22-5072 | Basil Bey v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-07-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process evidence-rule-701 evidentiary-standards federal-rules-of-evidence law-enforcement-testimony opinion-evidence uniform-standards witness-testimony | 1. Whether this Court should set limits on what law enforcement testimony should be admitted as opinion evidence under Federal Rule of Evidence 701. |
| 21-8002 | Daniel Taylor v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Fourth Circuit | 2022-05-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-trial due-process griffin-v-illinois innocence judicial-integrity jury-verdict miscarriage-of-justice post-conviction prosecutorial-conduct trial-transcript | Question not identified. |
| 21-7737 | Justin L. Douglas v. Wisconsin | Wisconsin | 2022-04-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review civil-rights counsel criminal-trial due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-evidence search-and-seizure standing trial-strategy | 1. Supreme Court of Wisconsin error in not ruling on my right to have counsel 2. Supreme Court of Wisconsin error in ruling on my attorney ineffectiv… |
| 21-1146 | Gary McClain v. Texas | Texas | 2022-02-17 | Denied | client-autonomy criminal-procedure criminal-trial defense-counsel fundamental-rights right-to-counsel sixth-amendment structural-error trial-strategy | This Court held in McCoy v. Louisiana, 138 S. Ct. 1500 (2018), that defense counsel may not concede his client's guilt in the guilt phase of trial if … | |
| 21-7076 | Richard Maurival v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-02-08 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-trial eleventh-circuit evidentiary-inquiry juror-statements jury-deliberations peña-rodriguez-v-colorado racial-bias sixth-circuit | Where disclosure of jurors' statements in their deliberations shows racial bias that may have tainted the verdict in a criminal trial, must the distri… |
| 21-6970 | Nigel Kinte Wright v. Steven Rivard, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2022-01-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-trial cumulative-errors due-process evidentiary-errors fundamental-fairness fundamental-unfairness harmless-error judicial-review sixth-amendment | To what extent is the test for analyzing whether cumulative evidentiary errors created a fundamentally unfair criminal trial coextensive with the test… |
| 21-6702 | Oscar Porter v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. | Third Circuit | 2021-12-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2254 alibi-witness alibi-witnesses criminal-trial eyewitness-identification eyewitness-testimony habeas-corpus identification ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment | 1. Is the Sixth Amendment violated when trial counsel pre-judges and excludes close friends and family from testifying as alibi witnesses without inve… |
| 21-5971 | Adrian Torres v. Warren Montgomery, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2021-10-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-trial cumulative-error doyle-error due-process evidence-exclusion ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct ptsd right-to-present-defense | I. Did Trial Counsel Render Ineffective Assistance by Failing to Investigate and Present a PTSD Expert?; Was an Evidentiary Hearing Was Required? II.… |
| 21-5856 | Raymond LeQuan Gibbs v. Neil McDowell, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2021-10-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bias confrontation-clause credibility criminal-trial cross-examination informant-testimony informant-witness sixth-amendment witness-credibility | The Sixth Amendment's Confrontation Clause guarantees a criminal defendant a reasonable opportunity to cross-examine the witnesses against him. The br… |
| 21-5669 | Thomas Woods v. Nelson Alves, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk | First Circuit | 2021-09-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment adversarial-system compelled-testimony constitutional-rights criminal-trial due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury racial-disparities self-incrimination | 1) Where a target of a grand jury investigation is compelled under threat of the pains and penalties of the law to appear to testify at the grand jury… |
| 21-5567 | Damond Dean v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2021-09-03 | Denied | IFP | corroborating-evidence criminal-trial due-process ineffective-assistance reasonable-investigation strickland-standard strickland-v-washington therapist-testimony trial-counsel witness-credibility | Question Number One: Counsel rendered ineffective assistance by failing to object to K.H.'s (Complainant) therapist's testimony when she told the jur… |
| 21-5575 | Frederick Arayatanon v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-09-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial defendant-rights district-court due-process evidence evidentiary-admission fair-trial jail-telephone-calls presumption-of-innocence | Do-es —t-he—admirs's!on of "jail telephone calls by the District Court during defendant's trial undermine defendant's presumption of innocence? |
| 21-5451 | John M. Wasson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-08-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions legal-counsel mining-claim right-to-counsel | The questions presented are: 1. Did Mr. Wasson have adequate counsel during his trial and appeal? 2. Was Mr. Wasson's accessing his mining claim's c… |
| 21-5329 | Omar Sharpe v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-08-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights court-of-appeals courtroom-behavior criminal-trial district-court due-process illinois-v-allen shackling | Whether Petitioner's Due Process rights were violated when the Court of Appeals failed to remedy the District Court's improper shackling of Petitioner… |
| 21-5291 | Leonardo Miguel Garcia Morales, aka El Padrino v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-08-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-trial critical-stage defendant-presence district-court-discretion due-process judicial-discretion jury-deliberations right-to-presence testimony-of-accused testimony-rehearing | Does the right to presence at critical stages of a criminal trial extend to proceedings before the jury in which the district court discourages the ju… |
| 21-5236 | Manvester Evans, III v. Georgia | Georgia | 2021-07-28 | Denied | IFP | abandonment-of-counsel appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-trial due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance out-of-time-appeal right-to-appeal right-to-counsel trial-court-discretion | 1. Is the Abanoclon men 7 of couse l Loe rhe cleberclqurp Atzek a plea heaaive CL Seurencingy Of Couszizuriaual Ellec rive Assisvauce ot Counsel ° . … |
| 21-5192 | Gilberto Antonio Guillen-Hernandez v. Texas | Texas | 2021-07-23 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-law constitutional-requirement continuous-sexual-abuse criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process jury-conviction jury-unanimity sexual-abuse sixth-amendment | Does the constitutional requirement of jury unanimity, contained within the Sixth Amendment of the United States Constitution, require a jury to be un… |
| 20-1709 | David Ming Pon v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-06-10 | Denied | Amici (3)Relisted (2) | appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process evidence-standard government-case harmless-error judicial-review presumption-of-innocence standard-of-review | Whether an appellate court reviewing a cold criminal trial record may determine that an error at trial was harmless by applying an "overwhelming evide… |
| 20-7978 | Todd Alan Winkler v. California | California | 2021-05-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-trial due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment fundamental-fairness inflammatory-propensity propensity-evidence | Did the California Court of Appeal err when it concluded that inflammatory propensity evidence, pervasively used and erroneously admitted in the petit… |
| 20-7700 | Robert Ibarra v. W. L. Montgomery, Acting Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2021-04-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | co-defendant-statements co-perpetrator-statements confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process evidence-exclusion first-degree-murder hearsay right-to-defense right-to-present-defense | Does the exclusion of statements by a co-perpetrator that he was solely responsible for the charged murder and the defendant was innocent, including t… |
| 20-7614 | Gerald Von Tobel v. Tim Garrett, Warden, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-03-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2254(d)(1) criminal-trial federal-review habeas-corpus juror-misconduct mattox-remmer-test mattox-v-united-states presumption-of-prejudice remmer-v-united-states state-court-procedure | In Nevada, when a juror commits misconduct by engaging in an unauthorized conversation about a criminal trial with a third party, the Nevada state cou… |
| 20-7353 | Fivea Sharipoff v. Rob Persson, Superintendent, Coffee Creek Correctional Institution | Ninth Circuit | 2021-03-08 | Denied | IFP | collateral-review constitutional-rights criminal-trial due-process evidence habeas-corpus jury meaningful-defense non-unanimous-jury retroactivity sixth-amendment | I. Whether, in a case where the jury question was whether Petitioner acted with extreme indifference to the value of human life when she made a drivin… |
| 20-7225 | Derek Michael Rigsby v. Colorado | Colorado | 2021-02-24 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure criminal-trial double-jeopardy due-process jury-instructions jury-verdict legal-remedy mutually-exclusive-verdicts sixth-amendment | Whether the Due Process Clause and the Sixth Amendment require that a defendant receive a new trial where a jury returns mutually exclusive guilty ver… |
| 20-7169 | Lawrence Nunley v. Richard Brown | Seventh Circuit | 2021-02-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-witness criminal-trial evidence-admission ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-error prosecutor structural-error testimony trial-counsel witness-testimony | During the criminal trial, the prosecutor orchestrated a stunt to have a child witness write down the most critical portion of her testimony while on … |
| 20-7017 | Dennis Martin Beyer, Jr. v. Texas | Texas | 2021-02-02 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-requirement continuous-sexual-abuse criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process jury-conviction jury-unanimity sixth-amendment texas-court-of-criminal-appeals | Does the constitutional requirement of jury unanimity require a jury to be unanimous as to specific acts of sexual abuse in order to convict a defenda… |
| 20-6974 | Freddie Lee Wilson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-01-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 404(b) background-evidence circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-trial drug-evidence evidence-rule federal-rules-of-evidence jury-testimony res-gestae | At Wilson's jury trial the district court allowed testimony that Wilson sold drugs the day before the charged offenses as background evidence that was… |
| 20-6935 | Melvin Wofford v. Jeffrey Woods, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2021-01-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-question criminal-trial deliberating-juror deliberation-process judicial-discretion juror-dismissal juror-removal jury-unanimity merits-of-the-case sixth-amendment unanimous-jury-verdict | Does a trial court violate the defendant's Sixth Amendment right to a unanimous jury verdict when the record establishes a reasonable possibility that… |
| 20-921 | Braulio Marcelo Castillo v. Virginia | Virginia | 2021-01-08 | Denied | Response Waived | child-witness closed-circuit-testimony confrontation-clause crawford-precedent crawford-v-washington criminal-trial due-process maryland-v-craig sixth-amendment | 1. Does the Confrontation Clause allow a non-victim child witness to testify against his father via two-way closed-circuit television when the witness… |
| 20-6652 | Rex Duane Stephenson v. Brandon Kelly, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary | Ninth Circuit | 2020-12-18 | Denied | IFP | collateral-review constitutional-rights criminal-trial direct-appeal federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-unanimity post-conviction-relief ramos-v-louisiana sixth-amendment | I. Whether counsel provides ineffective assistance in violation of the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution when he fails to investigate … |
| 20-6268 | Bryan Keith Roberts v. Texas | Texas | 2020-11-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | continuous-sexual-abuse criminal-trial criminal-trial-prejudice due-process jury-charge law-enforcement law-enforcement-presence prejudice right-to-fair-trial spectators statutory-interpretation | Is the presence of a large number of uniformed, under cover, and armed spectators identifiable as law enforcement on the final day of the guilt-innoce… |
| 20-633 | Byron David Smith v. Jeff Titus, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2020-11-10 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) | aedpa antiterrorism-act criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process habeas-corpus public-trial sixth-amendment | The question presented by this petition is whether the Sixth Amendment's public trial guarantee, within the review apparatus imposed by the Antiterror… |
| 20-6169 | Tykei Garner v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-10-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial drug-conviction due-process evidence interstate-commerce interstate-transportation prejudice third-circuit | Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's Decision in allowing the Government to use a decade old New York Ci… |
| 20-5956 | Tracy Lynn Cope v. Randy Lee, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2020-10-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aedpa aedpa-standard brady-v-maryland brady-violation confidential-informant criminal-trial due-process prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-review | Whether the Sixth Circuit's property applied the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA) in denying Petition relief where in the… |
| 20-5737 | Jesse Lewis v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-09-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process juror-misconduct jury-impartiality jury-selection religious-bias sex-trafficking sixth-amendment | Whether, at petitioner's trial for sex trafficking—in which the government's case rested on evidence of the defendant's conduct as a procurer of prost… |
| 20-5598 | Gary Richardson v. Colorado | Colorado | 2020-09-04 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process family-member impartial-jury jury-selection sixth-amendment structural-error | Whether a trial judge commits structural error violating a defendant's Sixth Amendment and due process rights to an impartial and independent jury by … |
| 20-5580 | Kyle Phillips v. Florida | Florida | 2020-09-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process due-process-clause evidence-law evidentiary-rules fourteenth-amendment prior-act-evidence sexual-battery | Whether it is a violation of the due process guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment for irrelevant prior-act evidence to be received in a criminal tri… |
| 20-5379 | Keith Adair Davis v. Washington | Washington | 2020-08-17 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | adversarial-process constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial defense-counsel due-process pro-se-defendant right-to-counsel sixth-amendment unsettled-law | Where a pro se defendant is absent from a criminal trial, whether due to misconduct or voluntary choice, is the trial court constitutionally required … |
| 20-5304 | Stephon Williams v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-08-07 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | adverse-effect conflict-of-interest criminal-trial cross-examination effective-assistance-of-counsel eleventh-circuit right-to-counsel sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent witness-representation | Whether Mr. Williams' Sixth Amendment right to conflict-free counsel was violated when his trial counsel simultaneously represented a witness testifyi… |
| 20-5191 | Joshua Edwards v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-07-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process elements-of-crime elements-of-offense fifth-circuit jury-instructions trial-defense | Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit err when it held that the district court's failure to instruct the jury on the elements o… |
| 20-5115 | Gerson Serrano-Ramirez v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-07-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process evidence evidence-rules federal-procedure gang-affiliation jury-instructions motion-to-sever sufficiency-of-evidence venue | Mr. Gerson Serrano-Ramirez was tried and convicted on in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. Prior to and during tr… |
| 20-5116 | Steven B. Anderson v. Thomas Winn, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2020-07-21 | Granted | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-trial demonstrative-evidence due-process fair-trial false-testimony ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct | I. Did The State Prosecutor Violate Petitioner's Constitutional Right To Due Process By Presenting Known False Testimony And By Using Inconsistent The… |
| 19-8856 | Jason L. Brown v. Lisa M. Brown | Third Circuit | 2020-06-30 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-trial due-process fair-trial free-speech judicial-management prosecutorial-misconduct standing | I Is it Sair Sor the Lower Courts to Deney my child and I rights to the Couts, and refer to us as Jodical IWaste, and Judicial Iarrassment Does a par… |
| 19-8831 | Eric Reid v. Arkansas | Arkansas | 2020-06-26 | Denied | IFP | capital-case capital-cases constitutional-procedure criminal-trial death-penalty due-process jury-selection morgan-v-illinois voir-dire | Whether the Arkansas' voir dire framework in capital cases conflicts with this Court's ruling in Morgan v. Illinois, 504 U.S. 719 (1992). |
| 19-8542 | 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? |
| 19-8039 | Jeffrey Clark v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2020-03-18 | Denied | IFP | counsel-conflict criminal-trial death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment faretta-waiver jury-trial right-to-counsel right-to-self-representation self-representation sixth-amendment | Mr. Clark represented himself at trial because his lawyer planned to concede his guilt of second-degree murder. The Louisiana Supreme Court held the F… |
| 19-7988 | Junior Jean Baptiste v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-03-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review confrontation-clause criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process evidence harmless-error hearsay hearsay-standard standard-of-review | Where hearsay, consisting of an inculpatory, out-of-court statement made other than to law enforcement, is erroneously introduced to the defendant's p… |
| 19-7827 | Terry O'Nell Hall v. Texas | Texas | 2020-03-02 | Denied | IFP | co-defendant confrontation-clause criminal-trial cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process evidentiary-inconsistency fundamental-fairness inconsistent-testimony right-to-fair-trial sentencing-disparity victim-testimony witness-testimony | DID THE COURT OF APPEALS ERR IN DECIDE PETITIONER'S RIGHT TD DUE P WAS NOT VIOLATED, WHERE THE VICTIM TESTIFIED ONE WAY DURING HIS TRIAL AND THEN TEST… |
| 19-7819 | Shamsuddin Dost v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-02-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | anonymous-testimony confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process fair-trial sixth-amendment undercover-agents | Is it a violation of the Sixth Amendment to U.S. Constitution, which affords an accused the right to confront his or her accusers, for a court to allo… |
| 19-7662 | Juan Orellana v. Raymond Madden, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2020-02-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment 5th-amendment-violation admissibility-of-statement criminal-procedure criminal-trial custodial-interrogation due-process evidence-admission fifth-amendment obstruction right-to-counsel unambiguous-request | Whether Orellana's Fifth Amendment right to counsel was violated when, in the course of custodial interrogation, the detective obstructed Orellana's u… |
| 19-7696 | In Re Nicholas Todd Sutton | 2020-02-18 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment 5th-amendment capital-sentencing constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial death-penalty due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus physical-restraints visible-jury | In Deck v. Missouri, 544 U.S. 622, 629 (2005), this Court held that "the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit the use of physical restraints visib… | |
| 19-7651 | Craig Keyon White v. Robert Fox, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2020-02-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process eyewitness-identification ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment | (1) Whether the unduly suggestive pretrial identification procedure and resulting unreliable identifications admitted against White at his criminal tr… |
| 19-7547 | Phillip Boyd Cashion v. Texas | Texas | 2020-02-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment jury-bias jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct self-incrimination trial-procedure | Should the Petitioner's trial structure have been free from the fundamental unfairness of having the prosecutor tell the jury on two occasions that "y… |
| 19-7503 | Michael Bernard Bell v. Florida | Florida | 2020-01-31 | Denied | IFP | buck-v-davis constitutional-right constitutional-rights criminal-trial ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel racial-animus racial-bias retroactive-application strickland-standard strickland-v-washington | Does the decision in Buck v. Davis, 137 S.Ct. 759 (2017), which rejected the improper injection of racial animus, bias, or prejudice into a criminal t… |
| 19-7151 | Erick David Lopez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-01-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process evidence evidence-admission fifth-amendment free-speech ninth-circuit prejudice rap-poem sixth-amendment | Whether the Ninth Circuit's sanctioning of the admission of a vile and obscenity-laced rap poem found inside the purse of a 16-year-old girl and not w… |
| 19-6969 | Leviticus A. Swift v. Georgia | Georgia | 2019-12-18 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment arrest-warrant civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment indictment probable-cause search-and-seizure | RESENTED TO THE MAGISTRATE INSUFFICIENT TO PROVE PETITIONER SNE PTI HH 1ILLIVN IS THE INDIOTMENT IN THIS CASE VALID WHEN IT WAS NOT RETARNED YA GRANd … |
| 19-6907 | Robert Hendricks v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-12-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-error constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-error criminal-trial due-process equal-protection evidence evidence-admission harmless-error racial-bias structural-error | The Court of Appeals agreed that the District Court erred when at petitioner's trial for credit union robbery it permitted over objection one of the c… |
| 19-6861 | Tony L. Henderson v. Arkansas | Arkansas | 2019-12-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-amendment criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process equal-protection jury-selection race-conscious venire | Does a discretionary, race-conscious selection process for the venire called in a particular criminal trial violate the 6th and 148 Amendments to the … |
| 19-6848 | Robert Matthew Wittal v. Montana | Montana | 2019-12-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | co-defendant-testimony credibility criminal-procedure criminal-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions legal-objection sixth-amendment witness-credibility | The states key witnesses at a homicide trial were three charged co-defendants. Petitioner's defense rested upon undermining the credibility of the c… |
| 19-602 | Chesley Eugene Saunders v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-11-08 | Denied | Response Waived | attorney-client-relationship confidential-information criminal-trial due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial fundamental-fairness judicial-bias judicial-recusal professional-misconduct recusal sixth-amendment | 1. Whether the Due Process Clause of the United States Constitution and the Constitutional Guarantees of a Fundamentally Fair Trial permit a criminal … |
| 19-5817 | Kendrick Taylor v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2019-09-04 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | apodaca-v-oregon criminal-procedure criminal-trial fourteenth-amendment incorporation-doctrine johnson-v-louisiana jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent unanimous-verdict | The issue presented is whether the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial requires an unanimous jury verdict and, if so, would that unanimity requireme… |
| 19-5694 | Craig Farley v. Ralph Diaz, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation | Ninth Circuit | 2019-08-23 | Denied | IFP | consciousness-of-guilt constitutional-rights counsel-performance criminal-trial exculpatory-evidence identification-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lack-of-identification-evidence phone-records sixth-amendment strickland-standard trial-counsel | 1. Is there any reasonable argument that trial counsel satisfied the Strickland standard when he failed to introduce crucial lack of identification ev… |
| 19-5341 | Roshard Whitehead v. Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-07-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process federal-rule-3 fifth-amendment fourth-amendment illegal-search-and-seizure search-and-seizure standing victim-rights | Whether all courts violated the law of the United States Constitution when they overlooked, Under the exclusionary rule violation of the 4th Amendment… |
| 18A1306 | Latif Shamsuddin v. New York | New York | 2019-06-13 | Presumed Complete | burden-shifting criminal-trial due-process evidence-sufficiency prosecutorial-misconduct summation-comments | Question not identified. | |
| 18-9516 | Starquineshia Palmer v. Florida | Florida | 2019-06-05 | Rehearing | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 12-person-jury 6-person-jury constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process jury-size sixth-amendment trial-by-jury williams-v-florida | Was Petitioner denied her right to a trial by jury as contemplated by the Sixth Amendment because of the decision in Williams v. Florida, 399 U.S. 78,… |
| 18-9025 | Phillip Newton v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2019-04-29 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | apodaca-v-oregon criminal-trial fourteenth-amendment johnson-v-louisiana jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict | The issue presented is whether the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial requires an unanimous jury verdict and, if so, would that unanimity requireme… |
| 18-8916 | Steven Lawrence Wright v. California | California | 2019-04-19 | Denied | IFP | abuse-of-discretion burden-of-proof criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process fifth-amendment jury-instruction jury-instructions legal-standard motion-for-new-trial new-trial standard-of-review | As to Count 1 the murder conviction, Did the trial court's erroneous jury instruction of CALCRIM No. 301 lower the prosecution's burden of proof stand… |
| 18-8427 | Malcolm Roy Evans v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-03-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rights criminal-trial due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-discretion judicial-inquiry right-to-counsel right-to-testify self-representation | WHETHER A TRIAL COURT MAY SUMMARILY PROHIBIT AN ACCUSED FROM TESTIFYING IN HIS OWN DEFENSE IN A CRIMINAL TRIAL MERELY FOR STATING TO THE JURY HIS BELI… |
| 18-8120 | Jerry Lynn Lofton v. Mississippi | Mississippi | 2019-02-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-trial defendant-rights due-process fifth-amendment jury-instruction jury-instructions prosecutorial-comment prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-silence self-incrimination testimonial-privilege | Whether a prosecutor who this Court has held may not comment to a jury concerning a defendant's failure to testify in a criminal trial may submit his … |
| 18-8123 | In Re Ronnie Lee Fagan | 2019-02-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acquittal constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial defense-counsel double-jeopardy mistrial right-to-counsel sixth-amendment | QUESTION ONE Whether the trial court's exclusion of defense counsel when the grounds for mistrial were being considered: (a) denied the defendant an … | |
| 18-1013 | Edward Winstead, et al. v. Anthony Johnson | Seventh Circuit | 2019-02-05 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | accrual accrual-rules circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-trial due-process heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey section-1983 self-incrimination self-incrimination-claims wallace-v-kato | 1. Whether the Seventh Circuit's holding that accrual of self-incrimination claims based on statements used at a criminal trial is deferred under Heck… |
| 18-7657 | Devi Smith v. Patrick Warren, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-01-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-counsel appellate-procedure criminal-trial defense-counsel defense-witnesses direct-review effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment trial | WAS THE PETITIONER DEPRIVED OF HIS SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO THE EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL AT TRIAL WHERE DEFENSE COUNSEL FAILED TO CALL CRITICAL… |
| 18-7267 | Mashawn Greene v. Scott Semple, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction | Connecticut | 2019-01-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof constitutional-law constitutional-rights cooperating-witness criminal-trial criminal-trials due-process false-testimony government-witnesses prosecutor-duty prosecutorial-misconduct | Whether the due process clause of the United States Constitution requires that prosecutors bear the burden of preventing and correcting false or misle… |
| 18-7145 | William Sadowski v. Randy Grounds, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2018-12-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process fair-trial impartial-jury jury-impartiality police-presence | Whether the presence of uniformed police officers during a trial involving the death of a police officer violates a criminal defendant's right to due … |
| 18-6976 | Joseph Lochuch Ewalan v. Washington | Washington | 2018-12-10 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure criminal-trial double-jeopardy due-process evidentiary-basis jury-instruction jury-instructions lesser-included-offense standard-of-review state-court sufficiency-of-evidence united-states-v-dixon | This Courts precedent in United States V. Di xon, 509 U.S. 698 (1993) reached the question of whether a criminal defendant is entitled to a lesser -in… |
| 18-648 | Burdette Searcey, et al. v. James L. Dean, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2018-11-19 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 1989 civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-investigation criminal-trial due-process evidence false-evidence false-evidence-manufacture law-enforcement-liability manufacture-of-false-evidence municipal-liability qualified-immunity reckless-evidence-gathering substantive-due-process voluntary-plea | Whether in 1989 a law-enforcement officer violated a plaintiff's substantive due-process rights merely by recklessly gathering "unreliable" evidence i… |
| 18-6008 | Anibal Pagan-Romero v. United States | First Circuit | 2018-09-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-trial dictionary dictionary-use due-process fifth-amendment first-circuit jury jury-instructions presumption-of-prejudice remmer-presumption remmer-v-united-states | A. Whether the Petitioner was denied due process of law where the District Court, over the objection of Defendant provided the jury with a dictionary … |
| 18-5961 | Vincent Michael Marino v. Barbara Rickard, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2018-09-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals civil-rights collateral-attack constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure criminal-trial double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction jury-jeopardy supreme-court-precedent | Ground One The District Court, Appeals Court for the Second Circuit and the Second Circuit Court of Appeals sitting En Banc committed reversible lega… |
| 18-5660 | Todd Jesse Garton v. California | California | 2018-08-20 | Denied | IFP | 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial defendant-attire due-process guilt-determination meaningful-defense penalty-phase presumption-of-innocence right-to-fair-trial right-to-present-defense right-to-reliable-verdict right-to-wear-civilian-attire | Whether refus ing to permit an in-cus tody def endant ch arged with murder ing his wife and unborn child to wear his wedding ring during trial vio lat… |
| 18-5281 | Vincent Craig Mosley v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-07-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | co-defendant compulsory-process confrontation-clause criminal-procedure criminal-trial drug-conspiracy due-process evidence evidence-admission plea-agreement plea-bargaining witness-testimony | The question presented is: Whether a criminal defendant in a drug conspiracy trial is entitled to see the plea agreements of non-testifying co-defenda… |
| 18-5273 | Davian Wilson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-07-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | authentication criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sufficiency-of-evidence criminal-trial evidence-authentication federal-criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction guilty-verdict jury-verdict native-american reasonable-jury sentencing-disparities sentencing-disparity standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence | 1) Whether the district court erred by finding that the prosecution produced sufficient evidence at trial for a reasonable jury to return a guilty ver… |