| 25A960 |
Billy Leon Kearse v. Florida |
Florida |
2026-02-28 |
Application |
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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 |
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| 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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… |