inconsistent-verdicts
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-6805 | Anita Hollins v. Erin Maldonado, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2025-03-19 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-review criminal-procedure habeas-corpus inconsistent-verdicts sixth-circuit supreme-court-precedent | Whether Dunn v. United States, 284 U.S. 390 (1932), overturned by United States v. Powell, 469 U.S. 57 (1984), and United States v. Powell, self-restr… |
| 21-8000 | Elijah Johnson v. California | California | 2022-05-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure general-verdict inconsistent-verdicts jury-trial reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment | How does this Court's "inconsistent verdicts" jurisprudence reconcile with the Sixth Amendment jury trial guarantee: May a reviewing court uphold a ge… |
| 21-6425 | Maycol Mendez-Maradiaga v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-11-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure drug-activity entrapment government-inducement inconsistent-verdicts jury-verdicts predisposition prior-experience willing-participant | 1. In an entrapment case where the defendant has met his burden on the threshold element of inducement, may the government establish predisposition me… |
| 21-5526 | Duane Kelly v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison | Third Circuit | 2021-09-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure district-court-review double-jeopardy due-process evidentiary-hearing inconsistent-verdict inconsistent-verdicts post-conviction-relief reasonable-jurist state-court-decision | 1.) WAS THE DISTRICT COURTS FINDINGS THAT THE STATE COURT REASONABLY APPLIED THE INCONSISTENT VERDICT LAW IN THIS CASE CORRECT? 2.) WOULD A REASONABL… |
| 18-7076 | Evelyn Person v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-12-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process inconsistent-verdicts jury-instructions jury-verdict legal-conflict narcotics narcotics-conspiracy special-interrogatories | Whether the Second Circuit's failure to vacate the verdict of guilt rendered against Petitioner in the narcotics conspiracy count based upon an irreco… |
| 18-200 | Michigan v. Charles Damon Jones | Michigan | 2018-08-15 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process inconsistent-verdicts judicial-discretion jury-confusion jury-instructions jury-nullification jury-verdict jury-verdicts legal-standard new-trial sufficiency-of-evidence trial-procedure verdict-inconsistency | Irreconcilable jury verdicts are not grounds for relief, and courts are not to speculate as to why a jury returned an inconsistent verdict. Respondent… |