jury-coercion

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
22-7557 Germaine Coulter, Sr., aka Slim v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fair-trial hearsay-testimony juror-coercion jury-coercion jury-deliberation jury-deliberations prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment 1. Whether Mr. Coulter's Sixth Amendment rights were violated by the fact that the jury deliberations became publically known on how the jury was divi…
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…
21-7081 Marko Stasiv v. United States Second Circuit 2022-02-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing judicial-discretion jury-coercion jury-trial motion-for-new-trial Was the Defendant, Marko Stasiv, entitled to have a hearing on the question of jury coercion in connection with his Motion for a New Trial when the tr…
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,…
20-7861 Razhden Shulaya v. United States Second Circuit 2021-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP allen-charge civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jury-coercion jury-deliberation jury-deliberations jury-instructions right-to-counsel sixth-amendment 1. Should certiorari be granted to find that, when a jury bullies a holdout juror, the District Court should issue an Allen charge, in which it instru…
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…
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 …