jury-impartiality
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-5252 | Eric David Marrufo v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-07-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights evidence-admissibility harmless-error jury-deliberation jury-impartiality rule-606b | A. Whether the Petitioner was denied his constitutional right to an impartial jury and to a fair trial when the District Court: a. After denying the … |
| 24-7370 | Jonathan Davis v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-06-06 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure implied-bias juror-disqualification jury-impartiality sixth-amendment | I. Does the Constitution require selected jurors to be free from implied bias? II. What standards should apply when assessing an implied bias claim? … |
| 24-6336 | Christopher Michael Montoya v. Arizona | Arizona | 2025-01-17 | Denied | IFP | capital-case constitutional-rights due-process jury-impartiality morgan-precedent peremptory-strikes | Did the Arizona Supreme Court deprive Mr. Montoya of the right to an impartial jury and to due process of law guaranteed to him under the Fifth, Sixth… |
| 23-7694 | Juan Antonio Hernandez Alvarado, aka Tony Hernandez v. United States, et al. | Second Circuit | 2024-06-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attorney-client-privilege attorney-communication due-process impartial-jury jury-impartiality law-enforcement-interaction no-contact-rule right-to-counsel waiver | 1. Whether, as a matter of federal law, New York's "no-contact" rule, which prohibits an attorney in a case from communicating with a party he or she … |
| 23-6806 | Bruce Wayne Harp v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2024-02-22 | Denied | IFP | criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process jury jury-impartiality justice-system obstruction-of-justice penal-code pre-trial trial-rights | WHEN DOES PENAL CODE 2I.OZ ADULTERATE THE Justice system ,jMstructir /a due process , A WRTRtAL AMD AN IMPARTIAL JURY ?r |
| 23-5711 | Mitchell D. Green v. Wisconsin | Wisconsin | 2023-10-04 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | admissible-evidence constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process jury jury-impartiality mistrial trial-rights | In Arizona v. Washington, 434 U.S. 497, 98 S.Ct. 824, 54 L.Ed.2d 717 (1978) this Court addressed under what circumstances the Double Jeopardy Clause p… |
| 23A129 | Cuhuatemoc Peraita v. Alabama | Alabama | 2023-08-16 | Presumed Complete | capital-punishment extraneous-prejudicial-information jury-impartiality mitigation-evidence sixth-amendment waiver-of-rights | Question not identified. | |
| 22-7136 | Terry Froman v. Ohio | Ohio | 2023-03-29 | Denied | IFP | 6th-amendment capital-punishment due-process impartial-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juror-selection jury-impartiality racial-bias right-to-counsel trial-procedure | Six members of Terry Froman's capital jury provided answers on their questionnaires that demonstrated that they harbored racial bias. None were meanin… |
| 22-6952 | Brian Duane Brookins v. Georgia | Georgia | 2023-03-07 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process impartial-jury jury-impartiality right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-fairness turner-v-louisiana witness-testimony | In this Georgia death penalty case, the local Sheriff gave key testimony for the State, detailing his investigation of the crime and arrest of Petitio… |
| 22-5964 | Shaun Michael Farrington v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-11-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process impartial-jury implied-bias judicial-discretion jury-impartiality sixth-amendment standing | 1. The circuit courts divide regarding Smith v. Phillips implication of implied bias. This Court should decide whether the Sixth Amendment right to an… |
| 22-5550 | Corey Bailey v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-09-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting confrontation-clause confrontation-rights fair-trial jury-impartiality racketeering-enterprise rico-conspiracy vicar-convictions warrant-exception | I. A. Did the government prove beyond a reasonable doubt the existence of a racketeering enterprise, a necessary element for all of the charges, when … |
| 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… |
| 21-6490 | Earl McCoy v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-12-02 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | appellate-review crime-of-violence fair-trial hobbs-act impartial-jury juror-bias jury-impartiality mcdonough-standard new-trial sixth-amendment | Whether the Court of Appeals erred in analyzing the Petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to trial by a fair and impartial jury by only applying the McDo… |
| 21-5890 | Christopher W. Terrell v. Arkansas | Arkansas | 2021-10-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-conviction due-process fair-trial impartiality jury-impartiality jury-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-fairness | 1. Is a criminal conviction unconstitutional and in violation of Due Process when a jury does not remain impartial on the question of guilt for the cr… |
| 21-5767 | James Felton v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-09-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process implicit-bias jury-impartiality jury-selection racial-bias racial-prejudice sixth-amendment voir-dire | Does our society's evolving understanding of the impact of implicit bias on jury behavior justify overturning the "substantial circumstances" test set… |
| 21-23 | Brenda Cook v. West Virginia | West Virginia | 2021-07-08 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury jury-impartiality sixth-amendment voir-dire | I. Has the Petitioner's Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendment right to an impartial jury been violated when the court erred in allowing juror, Victor… |
| 20-7960 | Michael Anthony Carroll v. Michigan | Michigan | 2021-05-07 | Denied | IFP | due-process fundamental-defect-exception ineffective-assistance interstate-agreement interstate-agreement-on-detainers jurisdiction jurisdictional-limits jury-impartiality sixth-amendment tad-claims time-limits waiver | I. THE STATUTORY TIME LIMITS IMPOSED BY THE INTERSTATE AGREEMENT ON DETAINERS ARE STRICTLY JURISDICTIONAL AS APPLIED TO THE CONSTRUCTION OF A COMPACT,… |
| 20-5737 | Jesse Lewis v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-09-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process juror-misconduct jury-impartiality jury-selection religious-bias sex-trafficking sixth-amendment | Whether, at petitioner's trial for sex trafficking—in which the government's case rested on evidence of the defendant's conduct as a procurer of prost… |
| 20-5615 | Michael Gordon v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-09-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-prosecution juror-impartiality jury-impartiality jury-selection marijuana-legalization marijuana-prosecution voir-dire | 1. When empaneling a jury for a federal marijuana prosecution in a state where marijuana is legal, does a voir dire inquiry focusing on whether the po… |
| 19-8419 | Erik Wilhelm Traczyk v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2020-05-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals civil-rights constitutional-standards due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jury-impartiality jury-selection state-court-proceedings trial-procedure | 1) HOW CAN ANY PARTY OR MEMBER OF THE COURT, FROM A QUESTION OF HABEAS CORPUS (FEDERAL), UTILIZE WHEN STATE COURTS, NOT ALSO A CROWN IN A USTED, WHEN … |
| 19-6204 | James Michael Biela v. Nevada | Nevada | 2019-10-08 | Denied | IFP | appellate-counsel appellate-procedure constitutional-amendments due-process fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-impartiality jury-selection sixth-amendment standard-of-review | 1. Whether the Nevada Supreme Court committed error when it applied the wrong standard in failing to grant Mr. Biela relief based upon an unfair and i… |
| 18-9227 | Robert Sparks v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2019-05-10 | Denied | IFP | capital-punishment cross-examination due-process expert-testimony expert-witness false-testimony harmless-error jury-impartiality prosecutorial-misconduct | QUESTION ONE: Does cross-examination of a prosecution's expert cure all harm from that expert's repeated false testimony during a capital punishment p… |
| 18-9199 | Peter Alfred Perez v. Michigan | Michigan | 2019-05-09 | Denied | IFP | brady-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure crosby-hearing due-process impartial-jury ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel jury-impartiality mistrial resentencing | DID THE TRIAL COURT ABUSE ITS DISCRETION IN DENYING MR. PEREZ RELIEF FROM JUDGMENT WHERE HE WAS DENIED HIS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO AN IMPARTIAL JURY B… |
| 18-9045 | Kevin Robinson v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison | Third Circuit | 2019-04-30 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 14th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial impartial-jury ineffective-assistance jury-impartiality self-incrimination sixth-amendment | Are trial attorneys obligated to protect every fundamental right entitled to defendants under the United States Constitutional Amendments? If so, did … |
| 18-8826 | Omar Christopher Miller v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-04-15 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process impartial-jury juror-bias jury-impartiality law-enforcement sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth Amendment right to an impartial jury is violated when prospective jurors are allowed to conceal facts that indicate possible bias - … |
| 18-8319 | Jason Ray Flick v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. | Third Circuit | 2019-03-07 | Denied | IFP | abuse-of-discretion change-of-venue fair-trial fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury jury-impartiality presumption-of-prejudice pretrial-publicity sixth-amendment | I) Was petitioner denied a fair trial by trial courts abuse of discretion? II) Was petitioner denied effective assistance of counsel when counsel fai… |
| 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… |
| 18-937 | Abelino Manriquez v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation | California | 2019-01-18 | Denied | actual-bias capital-case capital-punishment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus implied-bias juror-bias jury-impartiality life-experiences sixth-amendment | What test determines whether a juror's life experiences are so similar to facts in the case that the juror must be disqualified for bias under the Six… | |
| 18-7145 | William Sadowski v. Randy Grounds, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2018-12-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process fair-trial impartial-jury jury-impartiality police-presence | Whether the presence of uniformed police officers during a trial involving the death of a police officer violates a criminal defendant's right to due … |
| 18-7128 | Joseph A. Bebo v. Sean Medeiros, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk | First Circuit | 2018-12-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2254-standard 28-usc-2254 due-process extraneous-material federal-law habeas-corpus impartial-jury jury-impartiality jury-inquiry supreme-court-review | 1. Whether this Court should clarify its jurisprudence on the right to an impartial jury by addressing the question of whether it is an unreasonable a… |