judicial-instruction
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21-1339 | Carlton Richard Nebergall v. Florida | Florida | 2022-04-08 | Denied | Response Waived | closing-arguments covid-19 covid-19-context deliberation-pressure due-process fair-trial impartial-jury judicial-instruction jury-coercion | Did the trial court violate Petitioner's constitutional right to a fair and impartial jury by creating a substantial risk that one or more jurors felt… |
| 21-5303 | William Pruitt v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-08-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | allen-charge burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process judicial-error judicial-instruction jury-coercion jury-deadlock jury-instructions retrial trial-procedure | I. WHETHER THE APPEALS COURT ERRED IN AFFIRMING THE USE OF ITS PATTERN MODIFIED "ALLEN" CHARGE WITH A DEADLOCKED JURY, EXPRESSLY REFERENCING THE TIME,… |
| 20-6725 | Larry Durant v. South Carolina | South Carolina | 2020-12-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-violation cell-phone-data criminal-sexual-conduct digital-privacy fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence judicial-instruction jury-coercion privacy search-and-seizure sixth-amendment trial-procedure | I. The jurors deliberating about Larry Durant's guilt or innocence informed the trial judge they were splint eight to convict, three to acquit, with o… |
| 19-8743 | Jeremiah Lee Guerra v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-06-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | case-precedent court-decision criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-instruction legal-review precedent reasonable-probability reconsideration remand sentencing standard-of-review | Whether there is a reasonable probability of a different result in the event that the court below is instructed to reconsider the decision in light of… |
| 18-7025 | Tyree Marquez Burt v. California | California | 2018-12-13 | Denied | IFP | coercion due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hung-jury judicial-instruction jury-coercion jury-instructions trial-procedure | Under long standing precedent from this Court, although a trial judge may instruct a deadlocked jury about its duty to deliberate, it cannot coerce a … |