jury-nullification

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6221 Hugo Chavez Valdivias v. United States Tenth Circuit 2025-11-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights jury-nullification jury-trial sentencing-consequences sixth-amendment verdict-power Does the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial guarantee a jury informed of its power to return a verdict against the law and the facts? Does the Six…
19-1447 Yehudi Manzano v. United States Second Circuit 2020-07-01 Denied Amici (1) 18-usc-3731 circuit-split criminal-appeals-act criminal-procedure interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction jurisdictional-basis jury-nullification mandamus writ-of-mandamus 1. Whether the United States may seek a writ of mandamus in a criminal case to bring an interlocutory appeal that is not permitted by 18 U.S.C. § 3731…
19-7021 Otis Hunter and Deshawn Evans v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-12-19 Denied IFP bias confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination jury-instructions jury-nullification mandatory-minimum nullification sentencing sixth-amendment witness-cooperation Whether the Sixth Amendment Confrontation Clause is violated when a court bars a defendant from eliciting the mandatory minimum sentence a prosecution…
18-200 Michigan v. Charles Damon Jones Michigan 2018-08-15 Denied Response Waived appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process inconsistent-verdicts judicial-discretion jury-confusion jury-instructions jury-nullification jury-verdict jury-verdicts legal-standard new-trial sufficiency-of-evidence trial-procedure verdict-inconsistency Irreconcilable jury verdicts are not grounds for relief, and courts are not to speculate as to why a jury returned an inconsistent verdict. Respondent…