jury-discretion
4 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-5652 | Tiffany Smith v. Shannon Olds, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2024-09-27 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-discretion provocation self-defense | QUESTION 1 - Within the context of SUFFICIENCY of Jackson v. Virginia. 443 U.S. 307, at 317 n.10. When the defense of self-defense and provocation ha… |
| 23-7029 | Byron James Shepard v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2024-03-19 | Denied | IFP | aggravating-circumstance aggravating-factors capital-punishment capital-sentencing criminal-procedure death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-discretion | Does Oklahoma's continuing threat aggravating circumstance violate this Court's capital sentencing jurisprudence and the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendme… |
| 21-7794 | Paul C. Bolin v. Ron Broomfield, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2022-05-06 | Denied | IFP | aggravating-factors capital-punishment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-discretion mitigation mitigation-evidence prejudice-analysis prejudice-standard strickland-standard strickland-v-washington | This capital case, in which defense counsel's investigation and preparation for the penalty phase was grossly deficient, presents two questions concer… |
| 20-1644 | Devon Archer v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-05-26 | Denied | Amici (1) | appellate-review criminal-procedure evidence-weighing federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure jury-discretion jury-verdict miscarriage-of-justice new-trial new-trial-motion second-circuit | Does Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 33(a) afford district courts discretion to reweigh the evidence when evaluating a new trial motion, as eleven … |