juror-bias
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25A1104 | Donnie Ray Pearson v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2026-04-07 | Application | habeas-corpus implied-bias ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juror-bias jury-selection sixth-amendment | Question not identified. | |
| 25-878 | Todd Jeffrey Rogers v. Ohio | Ohio | 2026-01-22 | Denied | constitutional-right impartial-jury ineffective-assistance juror-bias rehabilitation voir-dire | Whether a prospective juror who admitted bias can be rehabilitated through silence or group answers in response to group questions. | |
| 25-6279 | Steven Matthew Wolf v. Florida | Florida | 2025-12-03 | Denied | IFP | capital-punishment death-penalty fourteenth-amendment juror-bias jury-selection sixth-amendment | Whether Mr. Wolf was deprived of a jury of his peers as guaranteed by the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments where the trial court removed a juror who pr… |
| 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… |
| 25-5653 | Oren Lewis v. Brand Huffman, Superintendent, South Mississippi Correctional Institution | Fifth Circuit | 2025-09-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights exculpatory-evidence fair-trial ineffective-assistance juror-bias trial-counsel | 1. If PETITIONER WAS DEPRIVED OF A FAIR TRIAL BEFORE AN IMPARTIAL JURY BECAUSE A JUROR CONCEALED RELEVENT INFORMATION ABOUT HER RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE… |
| 24-6875 | Kayle B. Bates v. Florida | Florida | 2025-03-27 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-trial juror-bias jury-contact legal-procedure post-verdict-communication | Whether Florida unconstitutionally limits post-verdict contact between former jurors and attorneys. |
| 24A216 | Lance Shockley v. David Vandergriff, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2024-08-28 | Presumed Complete | ineffective-assistance juror-bias jury-misconduct right-to-fair-trial sixth-amendment voir-dire | 1. This case presents an important question dividing the circuits regarding when a certificate of appealability must issue, so that a state prisoner d… | |
| 24-5173 | Sir Mario Owens v. Colorado | Colorado | 2024-07-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky criminal-justice-system driving-while-black equal-protection juror-bias jury-selection peremptory-strike peremptory-strikes race-neutral race-neutral-justification racial-discrimination | 1. Whether expressly linking a black juror's remark in a jury questionnaire indicating that he had an "unpleasant experience" with police (namely, "dr… |
| 23-7488 | Jose Eliso Zavala v. Texas | Texas | 2024-05-15 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment 6th-amendment actual-bias constitutional-rights fair-trial fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury juror-bias prejudice sixth-amendment structural-error | QUESTION No. 1 WHETHER OR NOT THE PETITIONER WAS DEPRIVED OF HIS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS TO A FAIR AND IMPARTIAL TRIAL UNDER THE 6TH AND 14TH AMENDMEN… |
| 23A635 | Jereme Lee Escobedo v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2024-01-09 | Presumed Complete | impartial-jury ineffective-assistance juror-bias sixth-amendment trial-counsel voir-dire | Question not identified. | |
| 23-416 | Derek Michael Chauvin v. Minnesota | Minnesota | 2023-10-19 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | change-of-venue community-bias community-harm criminal-procedure juror-bias juror-prejudice presumed-prejudice sixth-amendment venue-change voir-dire | Although a slightly similar question was presented to this Court in Skilling v. U.S., 558 U.S. 945 (2009), questions remained unresolved regarding the… |
| 23-5193 | Bradley Ross Fairbourn v. Neicole Morden, Warden, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2023-07-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus impliedly-biased-juror juror-bias strickland-standard strickland-v-washington structural-error weaver-v-massachusetts | Whether, in light of this Court's decision in Weaver v. Massachusetts , __ U.S. __, 137 S. Ct. 1899, 198 L. Ed. 2d 420 (2017), the actual -prejudi ce … |
| 22-7529 | Storm N. Rivera v. New York | New York | 2023-05-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel juror-bias jury-selection mode-of-proceedings mode-of-proceedings-error rape-prosecution sexual-abuse | Whether a juror who failed to disclose during jury selection that she was a victim of sexual abuse should have been disqualified after she revealed th… |
| 22-7374 | Earl McCoy v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-04-26 | Denied | IFP | court-of-appeals due-process false-statements juror-bias jury-selection mcdonongh-test mcdonough-standard new-trial sixth-amendment voir-dire | 1. Whether the Court of Appeals misapplied this Court's holding in McDonough in finding that juror J.B. was an unbiased juror. 2. Whether the Court o… |
| 22-7187 | Jody Lynn Ward v. South Carolina | South Carolina | 2023-04-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment 6th-amendment certiorari-denial due-process fair-trial judicial-misconduct juror-bias juror-impartiality remmer-hearing | 1. Was petitioner Prejudiced when the South Carolina Supreme denied his Writ of Certiorari on Oral arguments ,and in a violatio 11 of the 6th and 14th… |
| 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… |
| 21-7371 | Sherman Collins v. Alabama | Alabama | 2022-03-15 | Denied | IFP | capital-trial cause-challenge civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment juror-bias jury-selection prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-relationship standing | In a capital trial, does a trial court's erroneous failure to remove for cause jurors that have personal and professional relationships with a prosecu… |
| 21-6490 | Earl McCoy v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-12-02 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | appellate-review crime-of-violence fair-trial hobbs-act impartial-jury juror-bias jury-impartiality mcdonough-standard new-trial sixth-amendment | Whether the Court of Appeals erred in analyzing the Petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to trial by a fair and impartial jury by only applying the McDo… |
| 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 … |
| 21-444 | Andre Lee Thomas v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2021-09-22 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (22) | aedpa-deference capital-punishment fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juror-bias racial-bias schizophrenia supreme-court-precedent voir-dire | Under this Court's clearly established precedent, was Petitioner Andre Thomas —an African American man who, during a schizophrenic episode, killed his… |
| 21-5529 | Amando Martinez Montealvo v. Iowa | Iowa | 2021-08-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure juror-bias new-trial presumed-bias sex-abuse trial-rights voir-dire | Does the presumed bias doctrine require a new trial when a juror who was a victim of sex abuse lies during voir dire to serve in a criminal sex abuse … |
| 20-1799 | Hozie Rowell v. Joan Ferreira, et al. | Second Circuit | 2021-06-24 | Denied | Response Waived | batson-challenge civil-rights due-process equal-protection juror-bias jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike racial-discrimination | Did the court of appeals contravene Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986) when in affirming the peremptory striking of the only qualified African-Ame… |
| 20-8414 | Cynthia Stiger v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-06-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alternate-jurors bias circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process health-care-fraud judicial-discretion juror-bias jury-selection restitution-liability supervised-release | 1. Did the Fifth Circuit err in holding that the district court did not abuse its discretion in refusing to strike a juror during trial based on perce… |
| 20-7930 | Oscar Smith v. Tennessee | Tennessee | 2021-05-05 | Denied | IFP | death-penalty death-sentence due-process fair-trial fundamental-rights juror-bias juror-misconduct procedural-rules state-court-proceedings | Whether a state court violates the federal due process rights of a death sentenced prisoner who has asserted a colorable claim of juror bias and/or mi… |
| 20-7661 | Rodney Russell v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-04-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review due-process ex-parte-communication juror-bias juror-dishonesty jury-selection motive structural-error | I. Whether it viola ted due proc ess for the distric t court to a ppoint the Federal Defender not only to re present a juror for whom a legitim ate cl… |
| 20-1256 | Malcolm A. French v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-03-10 | Denied | Response Waived | abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure impartial-jury juror-bias juror-mendacity mcdonongh-test right-to-jury standard-of-review structural-error | The first time this case was before the First Circuit, it remanded for further proceedings on French's motion for a new trial made after information s… |
| 20-7214 | Eric Kurt Patrick v. Florida | Florida | 2021-02-23 | Denied | IFP | fifth-amendment impartial-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juror-bias sixth-amendment trial-strategy voir-dire | Where the purpose of voir dire is to empanel an impartial jury as guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment, but an actual biased juror is not removed for cau… |
| 20-6211 | Michael Anthony Robbins v. California | California | 2020-11-04 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | due-process investigation juror-bias jury-trial racial-bias sixth-amendment | This Petition presents the following related questions under the Sixth Amendment's jury trial guarantee: 1. What constitutes juror bias for purposes … |
| 20-5582 | In Re Karl-Heinz Dupuy | 2020-09-03 | Denied | IFP | batson-hearing constitutional-rights deliberation-errors due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juror-bias jury-selection trial-procedure | LucxjU Jurors K«.vfe Convhc+eci TOwfVtaJ-'C br«do 'y ^'-'ry +V oMkC^ fr< *7 ~7 -to See b <ttper+ ~0- ''We 0^e r, rf _ snc& VroKJe - c°^S&ls ,'ocfcri-.… | |
| 20-5362 | David Wayne Allen v. Betty Mitchell, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2020-08-14 | Denied | IFP | biased-juror death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus juror-bias ohio-supreme-court sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent | Did the trial court's refusal to dismiss a biased juror from a Death Penalty Panel, deprive Petitioner Allen of protection under the Sixth and Fourtee… |
| 19-8271 | Loren J. Larson, Jr. v. Alaska | Alaska | 2020-04-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | equal-protection impartial-jury juror-bias jury-trial jury-trial-right no-impeachment-rule racial-bias sixth-amendment | All states and the federal government have one version or another of an evidence rule that generally prohibits the introduction of juror testimony reg… |
| 19-8251 | Kevin Duane Talkington v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2020-04-13 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juror-bias jury-instructions jury-selection | Counsel Palledtoistrike a juror coho saidhe couldht hesPaiP; investigate, 4 Plied t-aghe, an oro j ipatory eu/dence . the.and present verbaiin reading… |
| 19-8197 | Fred Furnish v. Kentucky | Kentucky | 2020-04-07 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process habeas-corpus hearing-impairment impartial-jury juror-bias juror-impartiality jury-selection right-to-fair-trial | When a juror realizes that he has been in an identical situation vis-à-vis the defendant as the victims of the defendant's crimes, is that juror unqua… |
| 19-7583 | Tiffany R. Byrd v. Frederick Boutte, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2020-02-07 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-preservation exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-search juror-bias jury-misconduct law-enforcement procedural-violations search-and-seizure | Where I, Tiffany R. Byrd, was denied to receive an alternative evidentiary hearing on my claims of Illegal Search and Seizure. Where I was denied an e… |
| 19-7518 | Baltazar Reyes Garcia, Angel Serrano Carreno, and Hector Contreras Ibarra v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-01-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment civil-procedure criminal-procedure defendant-rights district-court-discretion due-process juror-bias juror-inquiry juror-safety jury-bias jury-inquiry ninth-circuit-precedent standing | Whether a district court must hold a requested jury inquiry after a juror makes statements indicating the juror has a potential source of bias because… |
| 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 … |
| 19-6860 | In Re Lee Hall | 2019-12-04 | Denied | IFP | biased-juror capital-case capital-punishment due-process extraordinary-circumstances habeas habeas-corpus habeas-review juror-bias original-jurisdiction structural-error | Whether the structural error of service of by biased juror in a capital case, discovered on the eve of execution, presents extraordinary circumstances… | |
| 19-6479 | In Re Charles Russell Rhines | 2019-11-01 | Denied | IFP | capital-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus juror-bias sexual-orientation | Should this Court exercise its original habeas jurisdiction to transfer this petition to the district court for a hearing regarding Petitioner's subst… | |
| 19-6272 | Mauricio Lara-Bonilla v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-10-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky civil-rights discriminatory-intent due-process equal-protection juror-bias jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike trial-court-discretion | For claims that a party had a discriminatory intent in using a peremptory strike against a prospective juror under Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (19… |
| 18-9665 | Alejandro Hernandez-Delgado v. California | California | 2019-06-13 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-procedure due-process evidence-code evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment juror-bias juror-misconduct jury-deliberations racial-bias racial-stereotypes sixth-amendment | What fact-finding procedures are required by the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments when a defendant makes a threshold showing that a juror relied on rac… |
| 18-9272 | Loren J. Larson, Jr. v. Nancy Dahlstrom, Commissioner, Alaska Department of Corrections | Alaska | 2019-05-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights due-process equal-protection jurisdiction juror-bias jury-bias no-impeachment-rule right-to-remain-silent sixth-amendment | 1. Does the Equal Protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment require courts to apply a Sixth Amendment constitutional exception to a no-impeachment… |
| 18-8968 | Emmanuel Mathis v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-04-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability due-process extraneous-communication habeas-corpus judicial-proceeding judicial-review juror-bias jury-misconduct remmer-hearing supervisory-power | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, as… |
| 18-8826 | Omar Christopher Miller v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-04-15 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process impartial-jury juror-bias jury-impartiality law-enforcement sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth Amendment right to an impartial jury is violated when prospective jurors are allowed to conceal facts that indicate possible bias - … |
| 18-8643 | Joseph Lee Flores v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2019-04-01 | Denied | IFP | bias criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juror-bias jury-selection sixth-amendment trial-counsel voir-dire | WHETHER VENIREMAN WHO STATED DURING VOIR DIRE THAT HIS ABILITY TO BE FAIR WOULD BE AFFECTED BY PRIOR EXPERIENCE WITH CRIME EXPRESS BIAS, RENDERING COU… |
| 18-8029 | Charles Russell Rhines v. Darin Young, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2019-02-21 | Denied | Amici (6)IFP | 28-usc-2244(b) amendment anti-gay-animus appellate-procedure appellate-proceedings civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus impartial-jury juror-bias second-or-successive second-or-successive-petition second-or-successive-petitions standing | Could reasonable jurists debate whether a court may permit an amendment to an initial habeas corpus petition, without applying 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)'s l… |
| 18-7658 | Julius Darius Jones v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2019-01-30 | Denied | IFP | capital-punishment constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment juror-bias post-conviction post-conviction-review racial-prejudice sixth-amendment | 1. Whether newly-discovered evidence establishes that racial prejudice influenced the decision of at least one juror to convict Mr. Jones and sentence… |
| 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… | |
| 18-7224 | Jose Alejandro Acuna Valenzuela v. Arizona | Arizona | 2019-01-03 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process fair-trial heightened-reliability impartial-jury juror-bias jury-selection motion-to-vacate prosecutorial-misconduct | I. Whether the trial court violated Mr. Acuna's constitutional rights to a fair and impartial jury, to due process, to heightened reliability, and to … |
| 18-749 | JoEllen Mary Crossett v. Michigan | Michigan | 2018-12-11 | Denied | conflicts-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel impartial-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juror-bias jury-selection peremptory-challenges prejudice sixth-amendment state-and-federal-rights trial-procedure | Was Petitioner denied her state and federal rights to the effective assistance of counsel, and did Michigan Court of Appeals err when it confirmed wit… | |
| 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… |
| 18-5657 | Terence Passmore v. Dan O'Fallon, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juror-bias jury-selection sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-fair-trial | Whether the presence of a juror who has expressed a belief that the petitioner is guilty rendered his trial unfair and in violation of the Sixth Amend… |