directed-verdict
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 24-5139 | Lamar McKay v. Jeff Tanner, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2024-07-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights directed-verdict due-process first-degree-murder insufficient-evidence jury-verdict murder premeditation reasonable-doubt | I. WHERE THE TRIAL COURT DENIED PETITIONER, LAMAR LORENZO MCKAYS MOTION FOR A DIRECTED VERDICT ON FIRST DEGREE MURDER WHERE THE EVIDENCE PRESENTED WAS… |
| 23-7725 | Jimmie Lee Walton v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-06-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion allen-charge coercion court-of-appeals criminal-procedure Did the Court of Appeals abuse it's discretion in Did the Court of Appeals abuse its discretion in a directed-verdict double-jeopardy due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judgment-of-acquittal judicial-discretion jury-instructions mistrial motion-for-acquittal right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence | Did Walton receive effective assistance of counsel? Did the Court of Appeals abuse its discretion in affirming the District Courts denial of the moti… |
| 23-6553 | Danjuan Antonio McBride v. Virginia | Virginia | 2024-01-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acquittal criminal-procedure directed-verdict double-jeopardy fifth-amendment retrial | Whether the Virginia Supreme Court erred when it held that Petitioner's Fifth Amendment right not to be put twice in Jeopardy was not violated when th… |
| 22-7842 | Dashawn Lewis v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-06-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure directed-verdict due-process judicial-error jury-instruction jury-instructions ninth-circuit reasonable-doubt | Whether the last sentence of the Ninth Circuit's pattern jury instruction on reasonable doubt, telling jurors that "if after a careful and impartial c… |
| 22-7071 | Elmer D. Baker v. Ron Neal, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2023-03-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights directed-verdict due-process ex-post-facto jurisdiction jury-unanimity state-jurisdiction statute-of-limitations verdict-direction | Question One Preface: The Indiana Supreme Court ruled petitioner had a state required due process right to a unanimous jury verdict; then acquiesced h… |
| 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… |
| 22-462 | Ruby J. Watts v. John Stewart, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2022-11-16 | Denied | civil-rights court-appointed-counsel directed-verdict discrimination due-process employment-discrimination employment-law equal-pay-act jury-trial prima-facie-case | 1. Did the lower court err in its issuing a directed verdict when a documented prima facie case of discrimination had been established? 2. Did the lo… | |
| 22-279 | Norine Cave v. Suvidha Sachdeva, et al. | Georgia | 2022-09-23 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | 14th-amendment daubert daubert-standard directed-verdict discovery discovery-requirements due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment | 1. Whether a litigant's fundamental right to a fair trial, under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution,… |
| 21-6492 | Jaime Galvez v. William Muniz, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2021-12-02 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure defendant-rights directed-verdict due-process federal-law harmless-error insanity-defense right-to-remain-silent trial-court-error | 1. Is it clearly established federal law within the meaning of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(1) that a trial court's error, of forcing a criminal defendant to t… |
| 21-5248 | Davion L. Jefferson v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-07-29 | Denied | IFP | 5th-amendment 6th-amendment crime-of-violence directed-verdict due-process jury-instructions jury-trial sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation | I. Did the district court violate the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause and the Sixth Amendment's Jury Trial Clause when it directed a verdict on 1… |
| 20-8451 | J. P. v. Arkansas | Arkansas | 2021-06-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure directed-verdict due-process motion-for-directed-verdict preservation-of-error procedural-due-process state-criminal-procedure trial-preservation | Does the State of Arkansas's strict interpretation and enforcement of a procedural rule which requires criminal defendants to identify the specific fl… |
| 20-7971 | Derek A. Rivera v. Connie Horton, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2021-05-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure directed-verdict due-process expert-testimony fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions murder-conviction sufficiency-of-evidence | RIVERA WAS DENIED A FAIR TRIAL BY OTHER-ACTS EVIDENCE THAT HAD NO PROPER PURPOSE AND THUS ENCOURAGED THE JURY TO CONVICT HIM ON AN IMPROPER CHARACTER-… |
| 20-448 | Kenneth Ray Strickland v. Texas | Texas | 2020-10-08 | Denied | appellate-review assault corpus-delicti directed-verdict due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel summary-rejection summation trial-counsel | I. Whether it violates due process for an appellate court to reject without explanation a trial court's favorable dispositive fact findings that were … | |
| 18-9325 | Davion L. Jefferson v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-05-17 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-924c constitutional-rights crime-of-violence directed-verdict due-process jury-trial jury-trial-clause sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation | I. Did the district court violate the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause and the Sixth Amendment's Jury Trial Clause when it directed a verdict on 1… |
| 18-7265 | Rodney Scot Armstrong, Jr. v. Michigan | Michigan | 2019-01-07 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure closing-argument de-novo-review directed-verdict legal-preservation motion objection preservation-of-error preservation-of-issues prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review trial-procedure | I. Is a motion for a directed verdict an objection that preserves an issue for and mandates de novo review? Petitioner answers, "Yes." Respondent has … |
| 18-6245 | Johnny Kirkland v. Progressive Insurance Company, et al. | Alabama | 2018-10-09 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights directed-verdict due-process evidence motion-to-dismiss right-to-counsel standing | (1) Whether Raymond Luker was negligent. (2) Whether it was a refusal at trial to accept proffered admissible evidence, not the granting of the motio… |
| 18-22 | Young Sung Lee, et al. v. Katelyn Garvey | Second Circuit | 2018-07-05 | Denied | civil-procedure directed-verdict diversity-jurisdiction federal-courts judicial-discretion meniscus-injury new-york-insurance-law new-york-law permanent-injury personal-injury rule-50-dismissal rule-50(a) rule-50a serious-injury-threshold state-law-interpretation summary-judgment | 1. Whether the Magistrate Judge erred as a matter of law in granting a Rule 50(a) motion for directed verdict when (a) both parties' experts agreed th… | |
| 18-5029 | Stephen Patrick Black v. Texas | Texas | 2018-06-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-rights directed-verdict directed-verdicts due-process fundamental-error jury-trial liberty reasonable-doubt | Are Directed Verdicts constitutional in civil trials relating to indefinite civil commitment? Directed verdicts are disallowed in criminal trials and … |