jury-misconduct
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-5560 | Yancey J. Myers v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-09-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights due-process judicial-bias jury-misconduct structural-error trial-procedure | 1) . Where a disqualified trial judge recuses himself due to substantial prejudice/bias ; POSTCONVICTION! is there a structural error because said j… |
| 24-7389 | Nathan Ray Foreman v. Texas | Texas | 2025-06-10 | Denied | IFP | appellate-counsel constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-misconduct | The investigation and presentation of a motion for new trial after a jury convicts a Defendant is a critical stage of the appellate process. The quest… |
| 24-6995 | Preston Alton Strong v. Arizona | Arizona | 2025-04-15 | Denied | IFP | burden-of-proof due-process external-evidence judicial-error jury-misconduct trial-procedure | Did the Arizona Supreme Court err when, like a substantial number of courts throughout the country, it violated the rule contained in Court's decision… |
| 24-6212 | Raymond Anthony Lewis v. Raul Morales, Acting Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2024-12-30 | Denied | IFP | capital-sentencing death-penalty extraneous-evidence habeas-corpus jury-misconduct religious-bias | 1) In a death penalty case, does post-trial evidence showing that the jury foreperson told the panel on the fourth day of sentencing deliberations tha… |
| 24-5906 | John Esposito v. Shawn Emmons, Warden | Georgia | 2024-11-04 | Denied | IFP | capital-punishment constitutional-review due-process habeas-corpus judicial-fact-finding jury-misconduct | CAPITAL CASE After receiving the trial court's instructions not to discuss the case with anyone, one of the jurors who sentenced Mr. Esposito to deat… |
| 24A216 | Lance Shockley v. David Vandergriff, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2024-08-28 | Presumed Complete | ineffective-assistance juror-bias jury-misconduct right-to-fair-trial sixth-amendment voir-dire | 1. This case presents an important question dividing the circuits regarding when a certificate of appealability must issue, so that a state prisoner d… | |
| 23-1249 | Timothy Patrick Guilfoy v. Brandon Watwood, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2024-05-29 | Denied | Response Waived | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus jury-misconduct right-to-confront testimonial-evidence | After a first trial resulted in a hung jury, Petitioner was retried and ultimately convicted of sexual assault. Suspecting foul play during trial, def… |
| 23-7528 | Aaron Matthew Rentfrow v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-05-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure evidence fair-trial juror-misconduct jury-misconduct prosecutorial-conduct prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-procedure witness-testimony | The district court erred by failing to grant a mistrial. Error in the following four respects, viewed in aggregate, deprived Mr. Rentfrow of his Sixth… |
| 23-7313 | Jason Dale Kechego v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-04-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cell-phone-use external-influence jury-deliberation jury-impasse jury-misconduct partial-verdict Remmer-hearing Supreme-Court-Rule-14 verdict-procedure | When a juror indicates that some other jurors are using their cell phones and meeting in a second room, does this require a district court to hold a R… |
| 23A514 | David James Lack v. Matthew Rodriguez | Ninth Circuit | 2023-12-06 | Presumed Complete | certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus jury-misconduct ninth-circuit post-conviction-relief pro-se | Question not identified. | |
| 23-5926 | Jahvaris Lamoun Springfield v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-10-31 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment jury-misconduct no-impeachment-rule sixth-amendment | The question presented is whether there is a constitutional exception to the no-impeachment rule codified in Federal Rule of Evidence 606(b) for insta… |
| 23-5714 | Cuhuatemoc Hinricky Peraita v. Alabama | Alabama | 2023-10-04 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appellate-review evidence-rule juror-misconduct jury-misconduct mattox-v-united-states no-impeachment-rule parker-v-gladden prior-convictions sixth-amendment trial-procedure verdict-challenge | During petitioner's trial for capital murder, the jury foreperson told the other jurors misleading and prejudicial information about petitioner's prio… |
| 23-5300 | Sandro Ramos v. Chris Rankins | Tenth Circuit | 2023-08-08 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment 6th-amendment brady-violation civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech ineffective-assistance jury-misconduct standing | 1. Concerning Exculpatory Evidence- Should Mr. Ramos ' convictions be set aside under Brady, withheld exculpatory evidence which led to the due proce… |
| 23-5012 | Matthew Nix v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-07-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation juror-misconduct jury-misconduct jury-selection mcdonnell-test mcdonongh-test supreme-court | 1. Whether the multiple interpretations of McDonough's two prong test requires this Court to grant certiorari to provide clarity and avoid disparate r… |
| 22-5777 | In Re Adib Eddie Ramez Makdessi | 2022-10-06 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-conviction due-process equal-protection evidence-tampering jury-instructions jury-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct racial-bias | 1-Attached transcripts prores that tral Judge & Prosecution acknowledged that the y u F Eq Pc aahFd Dis coudendRu Claiming it is not Extraordinary -.… | |
| 21-1424 | Marjana Hoti v. City of Warren, Michigan | Michigan | 2022-05-05 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (3) | due-process external-influence fair-trial judicial-ethics jury-misconduct jury-tampering prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-procedure | Is it an external influence-on the jury when the prosecutor and one of the sitting jurors had prior , secret contacts before the trial starts? Is it … |
| 21-7370 | Dante Leon Milon v. Tim Hooper, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2022-03-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause due-process fair-trial impartial-jury ineffective-counsel judicial-misconduct jury-misconduct mistrial recusal trial-errors witness-testimony | I) If there is a critical discrepancy within the record Is die transcript complete? And a new trial; permitted? Pg 26 2. A witness allowed to give a… |
| 21-6110 | Richard L. Starghill, II v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-10-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process jury-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct retrial trial-integrity | Do multiple mistrials, necessitated by jury misconduct, create a Double Jeopardy bar, preventing a retrial of a criminal defendant? |
| 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… |
| 20-7031 | Jose Diaz, aka Cano v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-02-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial juror-deliberations juror-misconduct jury jury-instructions jury-misconduct trial-court-inquiry trial-procedure | Should this Court, in order to safeguard a defendant's rights to due process and a fair and impartial jury, clarify the extent to which a trial court … |
| 19-8808 | Randolph Ashford v. Michael Stephan, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2020-06-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process evidence-tampering evidence-withholding ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct trial-counsel | Was the State of South Carolina City of Columbia, violate Ashford 4thj 5th, 6th, and 14th Amendment to the United States Constitutional Rights by With… |
| 19-8765 | Tizazu F. Arega v. Lisa L. Sadler, Judge, et al. | Ohio | 2020-06-19 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-review jury-instructions jury-misconduct legal-sufficiency sexual-intercourse trial-procedure verdict-validity | PFrTTrSSp^t™ nl intercourse and the jury returned verdict findingSS 1KHSMafaSy 0™88 SS-HH 1™ THE JUHY HAD MOT BHM |
| 19-8093 | Jose Passalacqua v. Mike McDonald, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2020-03-24 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure jury-misconduct motion-standard ninth-circuit rule-60(b) rule-60b scope-of-hearing successive-petition | Did the Ninth Circuit Erred In Holding That Petitioner's Rule 60(b) Motion, Was the Equivalent to an Unauthorized Second or Successive 28 U.S.C. § 225… |
| 19-7690 | Devell Short v. Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Greensburg, et al. | Third Circuit | 2020-02-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appeal-rights castle-doctrine constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial judicial-misconduct jury jury-contamination jury-misconduct | WHETHER A MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE OCCURRED, DUE TO A MISTAKE AND BECAUSE OF A BREAKDOWN IN THE JUDICIAL OPERATION OF THE FEDERAL COURTS, WHEN IT FAILE… |
| 19-7583 | Tiffany R. Byrd v. Frederick Boutte, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2020-02-07 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-preservation exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-search juror-bias jury-misconduct law-enforcement procedural-violations search-and-seizure | Where I, Tiffany R. Byrd, was denied to receive an alternative evidentiary hearing on my claims of Illegal Search and Seizure. Where I was denied an e… |
| 19-6591 | In Re Kenneth Uncapher | 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'… | |
| 19-6216 | Maxcium Herring v. L. S. McEwen, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2019-10-09 | Denied | IFP | appeal civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admission jury-instructions jury-misconduct sentencing standard-of-review trial-errors waiver | If a self represenTed defendanT Taks THE wiTNss sTNd in hiso heR detense whether oNe continves To represent her or himself or whethr The Trial COT mU … |
| 18-8968 | Emmanuel Mathis v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-04-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability due-process extraneous-communication habeas-corpus judicial-proceeding judicial-review juror-bias jury-misconduct remmer-hearing supervisory-power | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, as… |
| 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… |
| 18-6351 | Raymond Baker v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-10-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | accomplice-testimony corroboration corroboration-of-accomplice-testimony due-process due-process-rights fair-trial impartial-jury juror-misconduct jury-misconduct post-verdict post-verdict-inquiry | 1. Whether, as a means of protecting a defendant's rights to due process and a fair and impartial jury, the Court should clarify whether, when a defen… |
| 18-143 | Sandra Lee Bart v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-07-31 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | appellate-review conspiracy conspiracy-conviction due-process evidence evidentiary-hearing fair-trial government-witness juror-misconduct jury-misconduct precedent sixth-amendment substantial-evidence | 1. Did the Eighth Circuit fail to follow its own precedent, and rule contrary to other Appellate Circuits and the United States Supreme Court when it … |
| 18-5218 | Allen Robertson, Jr. v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2018-07-12 | Denied | IFP | atkins-v-virginia criminal-behavior death-penalty eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-cruel-and-unusual-punishment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability jury-misconduct moore-v-texas racial-bias sixth-amendment | I. Whether it violates the Eighth Amendment and this Court's decisions in Moore v. Texas, 137 S. Ct 1039 (2017), Hall v. Florida, 134 S. Ct. 1986 (201… |