jury-role

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-6886 Jonathan Lynn Jenkins v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-03-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review confession-admissibility criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence harmless-error jury-role Whether an appellate court improperly displaces the jury's role to determine guilt by assuming error occurred when the district court improperly admit…
23-6829 Edward Joseph Parson v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-abuse child-sexual-abuse credibility evidence-rule-702 expert-testimony jury-determination jury-role prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-evidence witness-credibility In a prosecution for aggravated child sexual abuse in which the alleged victim has inconsistently reported abuses, may the prosecution present expert …
20-6043 Robin Lee Archer v. Florida Florida 2020-10-16 Denied IFP criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-role retroactivity statutory-construction substantive-criminal-law substantive-law 1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's statutory construction in Hurst v. State constitutes substantive law, and if so, whether the Due Process Clause…
18-7189 George Leslie Manlove v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights credibility due-process fact-finding fair-trial jury-role leading-questions prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-jury witness-credibility WAS PETITIONER DENIED HIS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS, INCLUDING HIS RIGHT TO A FAIR TRIAL, BECAUSE THE PROSECUTOR'S CALCULATED, SUSTAINED, AND IMPROPER USE…
18-6901 Enoch D. Hall v. Florida Florida 2018-12-03 Denied IFP advisory-panel aggravating-circumstances Caldwell-v-Mississippi civil-rights constitutional-due-process death-penalty due-process harmless-error hurst-decision jury-instructions jury-role jury-sentencing sentencing sentencing-process unanimous-recommendation On remand from the Florida Supreme Court's decision in Hurst v. Florida, the Florida Supreme Court held, as a state constitutional consequence, that a…
18-6882 Willie Seth Crain, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2018-11-30 Denied IFP remedies prior constitutional defects in capital which requires unanimous jury findings of aggrava advisory-sentencing-panel aggravating-circumstances caldwell-v-mississippi capital-sentencing civil-rights constitutional-error death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing due-process harmless-error Hurst-decision hurst-v-florida jury-instructions jury-role jury-unanimity mitigating-circumstances sentencing sentencing-procedure On remand from the Florida Supreme Court's decision in Hurst v. Florida, the Florida Supreme Court held, as a state constitutional consequence, that a…
18-6327 Rolando Humphrey v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3553 18-usc-3553a criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing judicial-determination judicial-discretion jury-role jury-trial sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-18-usc-3553 statutory-minimum 1. Whether district courts may determine without the aid of a jury that a sentence above the statutory minimum is "not greater than necessary" to achi…
18-5081 Alvin Leroy Morton v. Florida Florida 2018-07-03 Denied IFP binding-precedent capital-sentencing criminal-procedure death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing federal-constitutional-rights judicial-discretion jury-instructions jury-responsibility jury-role sentencing-procedure structural-error unanimous-verdict 1. Whether structural error occurs when, after having been affirmatively misled regarding its role in the sentencing process so as to diminish its sen…