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25A960 Billy Leon Kearse v. Florida Florida 2026-02-28 Application atkins-v-virginia capital-postconviction eighth-amendment intellectual-disability jury-bias sixth-amendment Question not identified.
24-7063 Randy W. Duck v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2025-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP eighth-circuit ineffective-assistance juror-impartiality jury-bias prosecutorial-bias trial-counsel Mr. Duck alleged that his trial counsel was ineffective for failing to remove presumed impartial jurors that sat on the jury. Should they have been di…
24-5618 Daramis Lee Sharkey v. James M. Holloway, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-09-24 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process evidence-misrepresentation jury-bias prosecutorial-misconduct trial-fairness 1. Is it true that actions of prosecutor in misrepresenting in evidence can advance a substantial doing so have profoundly impress a jury making signi…
24-5100 Elmer Dean Baker v. Indiana Indiana 2024-07-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP due-process fair-trial Fifth-Amendment-due-process Fourteenth-Amendment-due-process juror-misconduct jury-bias pre-trial-publicity sixth-amendment voir-dire Questions One Preface: Prior to Petitioner 's trial, defense counsel requested the court to investigate the possibility the jury would be bias becaus…
23-7000 Jereme Lee Escobedo v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-03-15 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection fifth-circuit-review ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-bias sex-crimes sixth-amendment QUESTION ONE: Does a criminal defendant charged with sex-crimes have the same Constitutional rights as a defendant charged with non-sex-crimes? QUES…
23-6551 Steven McGauley v. Illinois Illinois 2024-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-proceedings critical-stage due-process effective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-bias right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standing Whether the trial court erred where the trial court denied McGauley's defense motion without weighing the potential for prejudice by other testimony o…
23-6120 Demecia Shontres Washington v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-11-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP character-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-standard expert-testimony jury-bias plain-error profile-evidence Whether the district court plainly erred by admitting expert testimony about the common characteristics of a particular type of offender, also known a…
22-7575 Larry Edmond v. Tommy Williams, Warden Tenth Circuit 2023-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process impartial-jury ineffective-assistance jury-bias racial-bias racial-discrimination structural-error trial-court 1. Whether district court trial abuse its discretion and violated the defendant's constitutional right to an impartial jury when it refused to grant a…
22-7070 Kenneth Douglas Clark, III v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2023-03-22 Denied IFP 6th and 8th Amendment rights by refusing to drop char and allowing a biased jury verdict excluding his self-defense claim constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jury-bias jury-exclusion prosecutorial-misconduct self-defense sentencing sentencing-guidelines trial-procedure 1. Is the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in violation of the Petitioner's 5th and 8th amendment by refusing not to drop all charges against the Petition…
22-6678 Cortez Watts v. Mississippi Mississippi 2023-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process extraneous-evidence impartial-jury juror-misconduct jury-bias jury-selection trial-procedure proper/*/ applfei) 4^ 44v? 4^*1 Coor4 &0e><^ 4e^i o£ ^ur^/~ M/sCo^uo-f:JU" jCJ 4^6 5oprfiM€ Coe//'"/" <rt oJfyr/vCiAj 4^6 4r&il Coof 4 AdchUo') .4^*4 …
22-6424 Trevis Thompson v. Illinois Illinois 2022-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-conviction criminal-defendant deliberation-misconduct external-information federal-rule-of-evidence-606(b) harmless-error jury-bias post-conviction-proceeding sixth-amendment unbiased-jury In a post-conviction proceeding challenging a criminal conviction, two jurors testified that one or more jurors had made statements, during deliberati…
22-6411 Granville Ritchie v. Florida Florida 2022-12-29 Denied IFP anti-immigrant capital-penalty capital-punishment constitutional-rights equal-protection immigration-status impartial-jury jury-bias prosecutorial-misconduct unconstitutional-conditions Does the United States Constitution prohibit a prosecutor from suggesting to a capital penalty jury that the defendant, as a foreigner and an immigran…
22-418 Gene Deveraux v. Montana Montana 2022-11-04 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) automatic-reversal biased-juror constitutional-right for-cause-challenge jury-bias sixth-amendment structural-error trial-court-discretion trial-procedure Whether a trial court commits structural error, requiring automatic reversal under the Sixth Amendment, when it seats a biased juror after erroneously…
22-5733 Robert Brown, II v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-trial evidence fair-trial jury jury-bias perjury perjury-evidence rico rico-conspiracy sixth-amendment The Government here alleged the Seven Mile Bloods operated as an enterprise in Detroit, Michigan, in an area known as the "Red Zone." The Government a…
22-5290 In Re Phillip A. Brown, II 2022-08-04 Denied IFP circuit-split collins-v-miller final-judgment habeas habeas-corpus impartial-jury jury-bias mandamus remmer-hearing subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Whether The Circuit Court Must Recall The Mandate In Extraordinary Cases Where It Lacked Subject Matter Jurisdiction Over A Final Judgment Resultin…
22-5289 Phillip A. Brown, II v. Cindi Curtin, Warden, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction calderon-v-thompson circuit-split collins-v-miller federal-rule-of-civil-procedure-54(b) final-judgment habeas-claims habeas-corpus jury-bias remmer-hearing subject-matter-jurisdiction Petitioner Phillip A. Brown II respectfully petitions this Court for a Writ of Certiorari to review the judgement of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeal…
21-6930 Juan Rivera-George, aka Tio v. United States First Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation cross-examination-limitation fair-trial hearsay-admission impartial-jury impeachment-evidence jury-bias jury-impartiality sentencing sentencing-disparity sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right 1. Whether Juan Rivera-George ("Juan") was deprived of his Sixth Amendment right to a fair trial by an impartial jury when the District Court failed t…
21-6772 Jerry Lee Canfield v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-01-06 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-error due-process harmless-error jury-bias jury-impartiality jury-selection structural-error voir-dire QUESTION NUMBER ONE: The Fifth Circuit has announced a newly created rule under the principle of "interpretati logica," and dclared: "Once a panelist…
21-6505 Bryan Bostick v. United States District of Columbia 2021-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights juror-impartiality jury-bias remmer severance sixth-amendment trial-court voir-dire Was Appellant Deprived of A Meaningful Opportunity To Demonstrate Jury Bias After His Sixth Amendment Safeguards Were Violated When The Trial Court De…
21-6486 Gary Green v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-12-01 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review jury-bias jury-prejudice shackling statutory-interpretation 1. In Deck v. Missouri , 544 U.S. 622 (2005), this Court held that shackling a defendant in front of the jury is inherently prejudicial and violates d…
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 …
21-5556 Bret Davis v. Illinois Illinois 2021-09-01 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-bias media-influence prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment unbiased-jury Were my Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to a fair trial by an unbiased jury and due process of the law violated by the Prosecuting State'…
20-8449 Brian Keith Gorham v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-06-30 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus impartial-jury ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-bias jury-selection procedural-default sixth-amendment trial-procedure Gorham will present three brief statements with three concise questions for this Honorable Court's review. Gorham alleged multiple Sixth Amendment ri…
20-8366 Larry Dean Garrett, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP coercion confrontation-clause criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule false-statements fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment jury-bias plea-negotiation search-and-seizure sixth-amendment Question not identified.
20-8168 Ross Colby v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial juror-sympathy jury-bias jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Whether the statements of a prosecutor invoking juror sympathy and telling the jury that it has a duty to convict violate the defendant's Sixth Amendm…
20-1302 Casey A. McWhorter v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-19 Denied 28-U.S.C-2254(d)(2) constitutional-rights criminal-defendant death-penalty-mitigation effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-review habeas-corpus impartial-jury ineffective-assistance jury-bias McDonough-Power-Equipment-v-Greenwood mitigation-evidence This case presents important issues concerning a criminal defendant's constitutional rights to an impartial jury and to the effective assistance of co…
19-1218 Marcus Lee Robinson v. Colorado Colorado 2020-04-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial jury-bias jury-trial plain-error prosecutor-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct racial-bias racial-discrimination racial-prejudice Petitioner is an African-American man who was tried for sexually assaulting a white woman. During the prosecutor's opening statement, she gratuitously…
19-7547 Phillip Boyd Cashion v. Texas Texas 2020-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment jury-bias jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct self-incrimination trial-procedure Should the Petitioner's trial structure have been free from the fundamental unfairness of having the prosecutor tell the jury on two occasions that "y…
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…
19-7237 Christopher L. Croom v. Illinois Illinois 2020-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP admonishment conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant judicial-admonishment jury-bias right-to-counsel trial-court trial-court-admonishment waiver Does a defendant knowingly waive the right to conflict free counsel when the trial court merely admonishes the defendant that a conflict exists, witho…
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 …
19-6636 Gregory Williams v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP circumstantial-evidence constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial jury-bias jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-reasonableness I. WHETHER THE GOVERNMENT VIOLATED MR. WILLIAMS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO A FAIR TRIAL, IN IT'S IMPROPER DIRECT QUESTIONING AND ILL-ADVISED POINTING OF …
19-6608 Steve Romero v. Mike McDonald, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP de-novo-review fair-trial habeas habeas-corpus impartial-jury ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-bias procedural-history sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington This non-capital habeas case arises out of Steve Romero's 2006 conviction in the state court of California for attempted murder and the Ninth Circuit'…
19-6591 In Re Kenneth Uncapher 2019-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury jury-bias jury-misconduct mistrial newly-discovered-evidence victim I. Was the Petitioner denied a fair trial where a member of the jury told the judge he was accosted outside of the courtroom by members of the victim'…
19-5281 Ronald Wesley Jiles v. Michigan Michigan 2019-07-23 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility fair-trial fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-right jury-bias jury-instructions prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct self-incrimination WHETHER A DEFENDANT'S RIGHT TO EXERCISE HIS FIFTH AMENDMENT RIGHT WHILE IN OPEN COURT, COMMENTED ON BY THE PROSECUTION TO THE JURY DURING CLOSING WAS …
19-14 In Re Thomas F. Williams 2019-07-01 Denied due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-bias miscarriage-of-justice procedural-default prosecutor-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-by-jury trial-court-issues Question one: Whether the federal district & circuit court and the Florida State courts violated the Petitioner 's 6th & 14th Amendment rights —when t…
18-9598 James W. Guy v. Ohio Ohio 2019-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech jury-bias jury-selection prejudice religion religious-discrimination religious-freedom sixth-amendment Did the trial court violate a Muslim defendant's Constitutional Rights under the First, Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitut…
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…
18-8827 David McShan v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP berger-standard berger-v-united-states criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-fabrication jury-bias nelson-v-colorado presumption-of-innocence prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing trial-fairness I. Where the government's case against a defendant is extremely weak, does the prosecutor's persistent misconduct during trial by making improper insi…
18-1158 Jarrod Taylor v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-06 Denied Amici (1) appeals brady-violation certificate-of-appealability constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review jury-bias prosecutorial-misconduct trial-procedure (1) Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (the "Circuit Court" or "Eleventh Circuit") apply an incorrect standard for obtain…
18-7858 Arif Majid v. Jeff Noble, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof closing-argument constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial jury-bias jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct religious-prejudice trial-fairness Whether a prosecutor's appeals to religious prejudice in closing argument and throughout trial to inflame the passions of the jury embody animus or of…
18-6524 Brian Thomas, aka O'Brian A. Thomas, aka Thomas A. O'Brian v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-10-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-standard berger-standard berger-v-united-states berger-v-us due-process fair-trial fifth-circuit harmless-error judicial-review jury-bias jury-misconduct procedural-violation prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review WHETHER THE FIFTH CIRCUIT COURTS VIOLATED BERGER V !JS AFTER IT CONCEDED THAT THE VIOLATIONS HAD OCCURED BUT DECIDING THAT IT WAS "IMPLAUSIBLE THAT IT…
18-5427 Monclaire Saint Louis v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure curative-instruction curative-instructions due-process evidence jury-bias jury-instructions kidnapping prejudice prejudicial-error rape witness-testimony 1. Whether witness testimony, on more than one occasion, reveals that a rape was committed during a kidnapping, by someone other than the defendant, c…