juror-interviews

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
20-5398 Lezmond Charles Mitchell v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-08-18 Denied IFP civil-rights death-penalty due-process extraordinary-circumstance juror-interviews jury-selection pena-rodriguez racial-bias rule-60b In Peña-Rodriguez v. Colorado, 137 S. Ct. 855 (2017), this Court held, for the first time, that no-impeachment rules may not bar consideration of juro…
19-5535 Julius Omar Robinson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-12 Denied IFP capital-indictment circuit-split death-penalty death-penalty-cases due-process juror-interview juror-interviews post-conviction-relief post-verdict racial-bias structural-error 1. Whether district courts may validly prohibit death-sentenced inmates from interviewing their trial jurors post-verdict concerning racial bias durin…