fair-cross-section
9 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-6185 | John Pearl Smith, II v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-11-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | distinctive-groups duren-test fair-cross-section jury-selection sixth-amendment systematic-exclusion | 1. Is the Sixth Amendment right to a jury that represents a fair cross-section of the community violated where a defendant identifies a specific syste… |
| 24-6578 | Donald Lee Billings v. Wisconsin | Wisconsin | 2025-02-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights equal-protection fair-cross-section fourteenth-amendment jury-selection systematic-exclusion | How should courts assess whether the representation of a group is fair and reasonable? What is necessary to show an underrepresentation is "systemati… |
| 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… |
| 21-6468 | Joshua Fernandes v. Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 2021-12-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | age-discrimination constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fair-cross-section jury-selection peremptory-challenge race-neutral-reasons | Whether age should be considered a protected class, and whether the exclusion of all young potential jurors violates the Equal Protection Clause. Whe… |
| 20-1777 | Willard Hall v. Edward Bickham, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2021-06-24 | Denied | 6th-amendment community-representation due-process effective-assistance fair-cross-section fair-trial fifth-circuit impartial-jury jury-composition probable-cause | (1) Whether the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana properly concluded… | |
| 19-8378 | Joseph Howell v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. | Third Circuit | 2020-04-30 | Denied | IFP | absolute-disparity duren-v-missouri fair-cross-section jury-pool jury-selection minority-representation presumption-of-legitimacy sixth-amendment systematic-exclusion venire-study | 1. May a court deny a fair cross-section challenge to the jury pool simply because the "absolute disparity" is less than 10%, thereby sanctioning the … |
| 19-7496 | Garry Dean Stroner v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2020-01-30 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | constitutional-rights discrimination due-process effective-counsel fair-cross-section fair-trial impartial-jury intentional-exclusion jury-composition jury-selection presumption-of-innocence prosecutorial-misconduct systematic-exclusion | 1. Petitioner's trial counsel obtained the jury list two days prior to the day of jury selection. On the day of trial entire panel of sixty-five (65) … |
| 18-7497 | Carl Burnie Wellborn v. Shane Jackson, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-01-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fair-cross-section fundamental-fairness fundamental-unfairness habeas-corpus prejudice procedural-default sixth-amendment structural-error | (1) Can reasonable jurists debate whether habeas petitioners asserting procedurally defaulted fair cross-section claims must show actual prejudice or … |
| 18-5517 | Mike Peter Gallardo v. Arizona | Arizona | 2018-08-08 | Denied | IFP | capital-jury capital-punishment citizen-jurors due-process eighth-amendment fair-cross-section fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-composition sixth-amendment | Almost a decade ago, this Court unanimously held that, "If a defendant is tried before a qualified jury composed of individuals not challengeable for … |