jury-deliberations
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-748 | Kevin McCarthy, Superintendent, Elmira Correctional Facility v. Pedro Hernandez | Second Circuit | 2025-12-23 | Pending | aedpa jury-deliberations jury-instruction pretrial-suppression seibert-rule state-court-findings | The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) prohibits federal courts from invalidating a state conviction unless there is both a legal e… | |
| 24-7473 | Obel Cruz-Garcia v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2025-06-20 | Denied | IFP | capital-punishment circuit-precedent external-influence habeas-corpus jury-deliberations religious-text | 1. When a jury foreman in a capital murder trial brings a religious text to the jury room during punishment phase deliberations and reads passages con… |
| 23-1080 | Warren Mosler, et al. v. Joseph Gerace, et al. | Virgin Islands | 2024-04-04 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-court civil-procedure corporate-form due-process jury-deliberations shareholders-damages standing trial-proceedings verdict | Does Due Process allow an appellate court to shortcut the trial proceedings; the jury deliberations; and the verdict itself; and ignore the plaintiffs… |
| 23-5648 | Frank Nucera, Jr. v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-09-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | due-process equal-protection evidentiary-hearing juror-misconduct jury-deliberations new-trial new-trial-motion racial-bias third-circuit-court voir-dire | 1. Did the Third Circuit err by upholding the denial of Petitioner's motion for new trial or an evidentiary hearing based on juror affidavits which es… |
| 23-5038 | Kurt Michaels v. Ron Davis, Warden, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-07-05 | Denied | Relisted (13)IFP | aggravating-evidence appellate-review capital-case confession confession-evidence cumulative-error harmless-error harmless-error-analysis jury-deliberation jury-deliberations ninth-circuit-review | Whether a court reviewing a cold record in a capital case may determine that the effect of an erroneously admitted confession and other improper aggra… |
| 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… |
| 22-7400 | Maurice Morrison v. Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 2023-04-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause confrontation-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment judicial-protection jury-deliberations jury-trial sixth-amendment trial-evidence | A person accused of a crime is entitled to have his guilt or innocence determined solely on the basis of evidence introduced at trial. Taylor v. Kentu… |
| 21-7918 | Jaime Gonzalo Castiblanco Cabalcante v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-05-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit harmless-error jury-deliberations jury-instructions knowledge-element | 1. In Connecticut v. Johnson , 460 U.S. 73, 88 (1983) (plurality opinion), the court held that instructions 1"permitt[ing] the jury to convict [a def… |
| 21-7076 | Richard Maurival v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-02-08 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-trial eleventh-circuit evidentiary-inquiry juror-statements jury-deliberations peña-rodriguez-v-colorado racial-bias sixth-circuit | Where disclosure of jurors' statements in their deliberations shows racial bias that may have tainted the verdict in a criminal trial, must the distri… |
| 21-6668 | Shane Patrick Sprague v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-12-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | animal-welfare-act conspiracy due-process eleventh-circuit evidence-sufficiency insufficient-evidence jury-deliberation jury-deliberations supervisory-jurisdiction | Whether in the exercise of its supervisory jurisdiction over the United States Courts, this Court should correct the correctable injustice that occurr… |
| 21-6386 | Antjuan Sydnor v. California | California | 2021-11-23 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights counsel-absence criminal-prosecution critical-stage jury-deliberations right-to-counsel sixth-amendment structural-error | 1. In a criminal prosecution, if a trial court permits the prosecutor and counsel for a codefendant to present supplemental arguments to the jury duri… |
| 21-6310 | Carlos Santos v. Christine Brannon-Dortch, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2021-11-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof circuit-split extraneous-information habeas-corpus jury-deliberations prejudice remmer-hearing | In Remmer v. United States, 347 U.S. 227 (1954), the United States Supreme Court held that when extraneous information enters into a jury's deliberati… |
| 21-5291 | Leonardo Miguel Garcia Morales, aka El Padrino v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-08-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-trial critical-stage defendant-presence district-court-discretion due-process judicial-discretion jury-deliberations right-to-presence testimony-of-accused testimony-rehearing | Does the right to presence at critical stages of a criminal trial extend to proceedings before the jury in which the district court discourages the ju… |
| 20-8355 | Jason Kyle Gee v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2021-06-22 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jackson-v-virginia jury-deliberations racial-bias standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence verdict-challenge | Question not identified. |
| 20-8093 | Martin James Kipp v. Ron Broomfield, Acting Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2021-05-20 | Denied | IFP | bible-reading biblical-reference capital-punishment capital-trial constitutional-rights external-influence habeas-corpus jury-deliberation jury-deliberations mattox-v-united-states presumed-prejudice remmer-v-united-states | Whether clearly established federal law requires that a habeas petitioner's claim that his constitutional rights were violated because a juror read pa… |
| 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… |
| 20-7240 | Joseph A. Hollahan v. Illinois | Illinois | 2021-02-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights courtroom-privacy due-process evidence-examination fair-trial jury-deliberations jury-room non-juror-presence public-trial sixth-amendment trial-procedure | Does the right to private and secret jury deliberations apply only in the jury room? |
| 20-6661 | Brian Keith Figge v. Scott Frauenheim, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2020-12-18 | Denied | IFP | criminal-defendant criminal-procedure deliberation-process due-process judicial-misconduct juror-dismissal jury-deliberations jury-selection jury-trial sixth-amendment trial-by-jury | Does a trial court violate a criminal defendant's Sixth Amendment right to trial by jury when it dismisses a defense holdout juror on the third day of… |
| 20-5177 | Rolando Felix-Carrazco v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-07-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency holdout-juror judicial-inquiry judicial-interference juror-dismissal jury-deliberation jury-deliberations scotus-guidance trial-court-discretion | Whether this Court should decide that the repeated questioning of jurors who have complained about one juror (who is obviously a holdout) is tantamoun… |
| 19-6068 | Michael S. Sites v. West Virginia | West Virginia | 2019-09-25 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights court-procedure criminal-procedure critical-proceedings due-process harmless-error jury-deliberations right-to-be-present | Did the West Virginia Supreme Court violate the Petitioner's Constitutional Rights to be Present at ALL Critical proceedings, including the answering … |
| 18-9836 | Dwight Brown v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-06-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | allen-charge coercion coercive-instruction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion jury-deliberation jury-deliberations mistrial verdict-review | 1. In the case below, the district court, upon motion by one defense counsel, granted a mistrial after a jury had been deadlocked and an Allen charge … |
| 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… |
| 18-8944 | Timmy W. Doucet v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2019-04-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury-deliberation jury-deliberations louisiana-criminal-code reasonable-doubt reversible-error sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence | Whether reasonable jurists determine that it was reversible error for the district court to permit the jury, over defense counsel's objections, to vie… |
| 18-8732 | Leonoris Miller v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-04-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-victim criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus jury jury-deliberations video-evidence video-interview | 1. Whether permitting the jury to review child victim's video interview during deliberations, which included, the child's description of a hopeful fri… |
| 18-7696 | Tony J. Walton v. David Ballard, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2019-01-31 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP | due-process fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury judicial-discretion jury-deliberations jury-impartiality sixth-amendment voir-dire | Were the Petitioner's due process right to an impartial jury under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution violated when the trial judg… |
| 18-7291 | Dillon Wade Thompson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2019-01-08 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure deliberation digital-cameras due-process evidence evidence-admissibility judicial-discretion jury jury-deliberations lewd-exhibition prosecutorial-misconduct trial | Is it a violation of a defendant's Due Process rights if, while deliberating, the fact-finder viewed evidence that was not shown at trial, even if sai… |
| 18-6565 | Charles C. Gore v. Illinois | Illinois | 2018-11-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment adversarial-proceedings constitutional-rights courtroom-closure criminal-procedure critical-stage-of-trial defendant-rights jury-deliberations public-accountability public-trial right-to-public-trial | Whether the right to a public trial is violated when the trial court closes the courtroom while addressing questions posed by the jury during delibera… |
| 18-5118 | Shane K. Floyd v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-07-05 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-fairness jury-deliberations jury-selection presumption-of-innocence racial-bias sixth-amendment strickland-standard | Implicit bias threatens the very foundation of the criminal justice system. Wasn't the judicial system built on fairness; the right to a fair trial; t… |