implicit-bias
6 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-5789 | Joseph Anthony Barrett v. California | California | 2025-10-02 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment implicit-bias juror-bias jury-selection sixth-amendment | When a charged crime occurs within prison walls, do the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments require excusal for cause of prospective jurors who are employ… |
| 22-823 | Alicia Thompson v. Janelle Henderson | Washington | 2023-03-01 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (7) | burden-of-proof due-process equal-protection evidence-standard implicit-bias jury-verdict prima-facie racial-bias | 1. Whether the Washington Supreme Court's novel standard addressing implicit bias violates the Due Process Clause—by prohibiting counsel from presenti… |
| 22-6775 | Josue Anahun Marquez-Oseguera v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-02-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | Batson-challenge constitutional-law equal-protection implicit-bias jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike race-discrimination race-neutral-reason | Whether unstable work history automatically qualifies as a race-neutral reason for a peremptory strike in response to a Batson challenge. |
| 21-5767 | James Felton v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-09-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process implicit-bias jury-impartiality jury-selection racial-bias racial-prejudice sixth-amendment voir-dire | Does our society's evolving understanding of the impact of implicit bias on jury behavior justify overturning the "substantial circumstances" test set… |
| 20-8227 | Trevor Anderson v. Lynn Lilley, Superintendent, Eastern Correctional Facility | Second Circuit | 2021-06-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing fair-trial implicit-bias prosecutorial-misconduct summation visual-presentation | 1. Can a prosecutor's display of a visual presentation during summation activate implicit biases, and if so, does the activation of those biases depri… |
| 18-8275 | Brian Sawyers v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection implicit-bias jury-instruction jury-instructions jury-selection racial-bias racial-discrimination racial-prejudice sixth-amendment voir-dire | Whether the federal district court should give an implicit bias jury instruction upon request where other courts have recognized that implicit bias is… |