jury-prejudice
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-6899 | Tracey L. Brown v. Aaron D. Ford, Attorney General of Nevada, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2026-02-25 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof confrontation-clause ex-parte-contact habeas-corpus jury-prejudice presumption-of-prejudice | 1. Did the Ninth Circuit Panel err in a federal habeas case where, following an ex parte contact during trial between multiple jurors and a key prosec… |
| 25-6807 | Edward Legaspi Ramirez v. California | California | 2026-02-13 | Pending | IFP | accommodation-syndrome child-sexual-abuse constitutional-rights expert-testimony jury-prejudice witness-credibility | 1. Whether the admission of expert testimony on Child Sexual Abuse Accommodation Syndrome (CSAAS), which by the expert's own admission cannot determin… |
| 25-6812 | Himen Ross v. United States | Second Circuit | 2026-02-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-fairness criminal-trial district-court-discretion gang-evidence jury-prejudice mistrial-motion | 1. Whether the district court abused its discretion by allowing the government to introduce highly prejudicial evidence and argument linking Ross to a… |
| 25-6082 | Karl Roseboro v. Melissa Hainsworth, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Laurel Highlands, et al. | Third Circuit | 2025-11-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | adversarial-testing curative-instruction due-process ineffective-assistance jury-prejudice strickland-standard | (1) When rumors that Petitioner was involved in the murder were twice put into evidence before the jury without counsel objecting or asking for a cura… |
| 24-947 | Chanel Wiley v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-03-04 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-rights court-precedent criminal-procedure jury-prejudice ninth-circuit physical-restraints | Whether a criminal defendant whose government imposed restraint is perceptible to a jury must show actual prejudice, as the decision below held, or wh… |
| 24-5047 | Pedro Terrazas v. Illinois | Illinois | 2024-07-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-counsel constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-prejudice jury-selection plain-error rule-431b trial-court-error | Was Defendant 'Prejudiced' And Denied His Constitutional Right To The Effective Assistance Of Appellate Counsel On [Direct-Appeal] For Failing To Rais… |
| 23-1186 | Rodney Thomas Ternovsky v. Florida | Florida | 2024-05-02 | Denied | Response Waived | consent due-process evidence-admissibility fair-trial Fourteenth-Amendment irrelevant-evidence jury-prejudice prejudicial-evidence trial-procedure | Whether the Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment due process right to a fair trial was violated when the trial court allowed the State to inform the jury… |
| 21-7224 | Johnathan I. Alcegaire v. Florida | Florida | 2022-02-28 | Denied | IFP | capital-case capital-punishment due-process false-evidence false-testimony giglio giglio-claim jury-instructions jury-prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct | In this Florida capital case, the Florida Supreme Court, while acknowledging that the prosecution's argument to the jury was not true, denied Petition… |
| 21-6486 | Gary Green v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2021-12-01 | Denied | IFP | 28-usc-2254 due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review jury-bias jury-prejudice shackling statutory-interpretation | 1. In Deck v. Missouri , 544 U.S. 622 (2005), this Court held that shackling a defendant in front of the jury is inherently prejudicial and violates d… |
| 20-8353 | Russell Armfield v. Sonja Nicklaus, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2021-06-21 | Denied | IFP | bruton-rule bruton-violation civil-rights constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions jury-prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct strickland-claim | (1) If a ruling must be contrary to established Federal Law for A Defendant to receive relief, When there is no established Federal Law or Precedent t… |
| 19-8800 | Justice Jerrell Knight v. Alabama | Alabama | 2020-06-25 | Denied | IFP | capital-punishment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jury-prejudice prejudicial-evidence racial-bias sentencing | In a capital case in which the defendant's jury observes him in shackles and jail clothing, and multiple members of the jury expressed the belief that… |
| 19-8222 | Steven Mason v. United States | District of Columbia | 2020-04-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady brady-violation criminal-procedure disclosure due-process exculpatory exculpatory-evidence impeachment jury-prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct severance trial-severance | I. Whether this Court should grant certiorari to determine whether the lower courts erred in finding that the Government's very late disclosure of ext… |
| 19-5462 | Wayne Pettaway v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion | Third Circuit | 2019-08-06 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-prejudice magistrate-bias | WAS THE DEFENSE COUNSEL'S INEFFECTIVE INFERENCE THE GOVERNMENT WAS WAS THERE GROUNDS FOR A OUTSTANDING WARRANT FOR MY ARREST WAS THERE HOSPITAL RECORD… |
| 18-8573 | Early A. Atterberry v. John Varga, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2019-03-27 | Denied | IFP | appeals civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure-rule-52b due-process equal-protection fair-trial harmless-error jury-prejudice new-trial other-crimes-evidence rule-52b standing | Whether the Court erred in properly applying Rule 52(b) to the issue of Harmless Error raised by the petitioner during the numerous appeals pursued. … |
| 18-8490 | Bernard Mitchell v. California | California | 2019-03-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion criminal-street-gangs discretion due-process evidence gang-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-exposure jury-instructions jury-prejudice prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-discretion standard-of-review | 1. Did the court abuse its discretion in permitting the jury to be exposed to the nicknames "Crip" and "'Scrap,"' which have been taken as a suggestio… |
| 18-574 | Joseph Rachal v. United States | First Circuit | 2018-11-02 | Denied | Response Waived | 6th-amendment bifurcated-trial bifurcation criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility felon-in-possession felony-conviction firearm-possession jury-instructions jury-prejudice prejudice prejudicial-evidence | No one can legitimately deny that a felony conviction is exceedingly prejudicial. That is why evidence of a felony conviction is normally admissible o… |