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…