implied-bias
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-7370 | Jonathan Davis v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-06-06 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure implied-bias juror-disqualification jury-impartiality sixth-amendment | I. Does the Constitution require selected jurors to be free from implied bias? II. What standards should apply when assessing an implied bias claim? … |
| 23-6661 | Justin Granier v. Tim Hooper, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2024-02-02 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (3)IFP | 28-usc-2254(d) circuit-court-split circuit-split due-process federal-review habeas-corpus implied-bias judicial-bias statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent | 1. Whether the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal has created a split in the Circuit Courts on this issue of implied bias. 2. Whether the Un… |
| 22-5964 | Shaun Michael Farrington v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-11-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process impartial-jury implied-bias judicial-discretion jury-impartiality sixth-amendment standing | 1. The circuit courts divide regarding Smith v. Phillips implication of implied bias. This Court should decide whether the Sixth Amendment right to an… |
| 22-5812 | Sir Mario Owens v. Colorado | Colorado | 2022-10-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights due-process extraneous-information federal-courts implied-bias juror-bias mattox-remmer-presumption outside-influence postconviction-proceedings remmer-presumption | L Whether the presumption of prejudice established in Mattox and Remmer continues to apply to cases involving juror exposure to extraneous information… |
| 21-6341 | Donald D. Foltz, Jr. v. Wyoming Department of Corrections, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2021-11-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment implied-bias jury-bias jury-selection prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment | 1. Was the seating of juror who should have been dismissed for cause requires reversal because implied biased applies to Juror foreman, 1301, married … |
| 21-447 | Matthew Nix v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-09-22 | GVR | Relisted (2) | actual-bias categorical-approach crime-of-violence criminal-procedure hobbs-act implied-bias juror-bias juror-dishonesty mcdonongh-power-equipment mcdonough-standard new-trial new-trial-standard | 1. Whether a new trial is warranted pursuant to this Court's decision in McDonough Power Equipment, Inc. v. Greenwood, 464 U.S. 548 (1984), only upon … |
| 19-8128 | Bobby Joe Buckner v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2020-03-27 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-circuit implied-bias standard-of-review | 1. Did the Fifth Circuit err in it's application of the implied bias doctrine by stating that this case is outside the "extreme genre of cases" to w… |
| 19-7468 | Donald R. Phillips v. Kentucky | Kentucky | 2020-01-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights due-process false-answer implied-bias jury-selection material-error material-question prosecutorial-misconduct standing statutory-provisions voir-dire | 1. Do you apply implied bias as a ground for disqualification under the circumstances suggested by Supreme Court's decision in her concurring opinion?… |
| 19-7069 | Lee Alvin Vincent v. Brian E. Williams, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2019-12-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment actual-bias co-defendant due-process evidence-presentation fair-trial habeas-corpus impartial-jury implied-bias juror-bias jury-bias sexual-infatuation | Whether a juror's love for an adverse party (co-defendant) constitutes actual or implied bias and thus violates the defendant's right to an impartial … |
| 18-937 | Abelino Manriquez v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation | California | 2019-01-18 | Denied | actual-bias capital-case capital-punishment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus implied-bias juror-bias jury-impartiality life-experiences sixth-amendment | What test determines whether a juror's life experiences are so similar to facts in the case that the juror must be disqualified for bias under the Six… | |
| 18-6899 | John Uranga, III v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2018-12-07 | Denied | IFP | certiorari circuit-split circuit-splits constitutional-error constitutional-violations de-minimis federal-courts federal-law implied-bias intra-circuit-split juror-bias structural-error structural-errors | Where there exists intra and inter-circuit splits among the federal courts of appeals on a question of exceptional importance concerning "structural e… |