jury-unanimity
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6241 | Vincent Gerald Garcia v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-11-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-procedure jury-unanimity plain-error sixth-amendment vicar-prosecution | Whether a district court commits plain error and violates a defendant's Sixth Amendment right to a unanimous jury verdict when it fails to give a spec… |
| 25-5219 | Mao Hin v. California | California | 2025-07-29 | Denied | IFP | capital-sentencing constitutional-rights death-penalty jury-unanimity reasonable-doubt sentencing-procedure | Whether California's capital-sentencing scheme violates the Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments because it fails to require the jury to fi… |
| 24-882 | Derrick Chatman v. Mississippi | Mississippi | 2025-02-18 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-law criminal-procedure direct-remand jury-unanimity lesser-included-offense sixth-amendment | Does a state court direct-remand rule that infers jury unanimity on a lesser-included offense violate the Sixth Amendment, where the jury's verdict wa… |
| 24-5987 | Brandon Howard Mauk v. Michigan | Michigan | 2024-11-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure jury-unanimity multiple-acts state-supreme-court verdict-violation | Does Michigan violate a defendant's constitutional right to jury unanimity when the State Supreme Court refuses to recognize the difference in unanimi… |
| 24-404 | Ji Chaoqun v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-10-10 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-statute federal-criminal-law foreign-agent jury-unanimity prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation | 18 U.S.C. § 951 provides that "[w]hoever, other than a diplomatic or consular officer or attaché, acts in the United States as an agent of a foreign g… |
| 24A298 | James Herard v. Florida | Florida | 2024-09-27 | Presumed Complete | capital-sentencing constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment jury-unanimity | Question not identified. | |
| 24-5368 | Joseph Roach v. Amy Robey, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2024-08-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | accomplice-liability criminal-conviction due-process jackson-v-virginia jury-unanimity sixth-circuit | WAS MR. ROACH DENIED THE UNANIMOUS JURY VERDICT REQUIRED BY KENTUCKY LAW WHEN HE WAS TRIED UNDER A THEORY THAT HE ACTED ALONE, AND INDEPENDENTLY, BUT … |
| 23-7266 | Nathaniel O. Robinson v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2024-04-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure direct-review fourteenth-amendment griffin-v-kentucky jury-unanimity ramos-v-louisiana sixth-amendment state-proceedings | it4 V- VOMisiAHfv / THIS Covet \i$u> that The 6|/th Amendment to the Vt^TEp STATED C^H6rVrroT\cn , 6/TENDEP To THE STATED £>y wAy OpTUe FoOpTeENTH A… |
| 23-6944 | In Re Bob Eugene West | 2024-03-08 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment due-process federal-relief habeas-corpus jury-unanimity oregon post-conviction-relief ramos-ruling ramos-v-louisiana state-inmate | Under the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution, can an Oregon State Inmate file a federal habeas corpus asking the United States Supreme C… | |
| 23-242 | Jonathan M. Martinez v. United States | Armed Forces | 2023-09-14 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial jury-unanimity military-conviction military-justice sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict uniform-code-military-justice | Whether military convictions for serious offenses must be unanimous. |
| 23-5454 | Moses Crowe v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-08-25 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause confrontation-right criminal-procedure cross-examination drug-abuse due-process intoxication jury-unanimity methamphetamine witness-credibility | 1. Whether Petitioner's constitutional right to confrontation was violated when, during his criminal jury trial, the district court restricted cross e… |
| 22-7512 | Eric Scott Kindley v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-05-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2412 causation civil-rights constitutional-error criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process false-evidence government-agents judicial-review jury-unanimity | (1) whether the yuo vecds to be ua mous, tv Fide on elemats that are the causation oF de PAWATIOn UNVEZ IDUSC 2412, and where spect catly wetructinie … |
| 22-7071 | Elmer D. Baker v. Ron Neal, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2023-03-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights directed-verdict due-process ex-post-facto jurisdiction jury-unanimity state-jurisdiction statute-of-limitations verdict-direction | Question One Preface: The Indiana Supreme Court ruled petitioner had a state required due process right to a unanimous jury verdict; then acquiesced h… |
| 22-6819 | Donald Dillbeck v. Florida, et al. | Florida | 2023-02-20 | Denied | Amici (1)IFP | atkins-v-florida eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intellectual-disability jury-unanimity medical-community medical-consensus neurobehavioral-disorder prenatal-alcohol-exposure | 1. In light of the medical community's recent consensus that Neurobehavioral Disorder Associated with Prenatal Alcohol Exposure is not only functional… |
| 22-5956 | Charles Wallace v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2022-11-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jury-trial jury-unanimity retroactivity state-constitution state-jurisdiction | ARE NONUNANIMOUS INSTRUCTED CASES RIPE TO REMOVAL via 28 U.S.C.A. §1443? DOES THE UNITED STATE CONSTITUTION AND AMENDMENTS IN AND OF ITSELF VOID AND … |
| 22-5746 | Chrystal Clues-Alexander v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2022-10-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-waiver criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea jury-unanimity plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal ramos-retroactivity retroactivity right-to-jury-trial unanimous-jury | Whether this Court's decision in Ramos v. Louisiana, 590 U.S. ___ (2020), provides grounds for a defendant to withdraw her pre-Ramos plea of guilty be… |
| 22-81 | Nathaniel Lambert v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2022-07-27 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process griffith-standard jury-unanimity prejudice rehabilitation sentencing-delay | 1. Respondent and Louisiana courts delayed eighteen years before sentencing petitioner on two criminal convictions. It is undisputed this delay preven… |
| 21-7830 | Daniel Paul Starr v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma | Tenth Circuit | 2022-05-10 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-communication judicial-misconduct jury-instructions jury-note jury-unanimity trial-conduct | 1. ON A STATE DISTRICT COURT LEVEL, IS IT LAWFUL FOR JURY TO RENDER A VERDICT OF GUILTY ON A LESSER-CHARGE (MISDE MEANER), AND THE AFTERWORDS THE JUDG… |
| 21-7207 | Robert Brewer v. New York | New York | 2022-02-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | accomplice-liability constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process jury-unanimity precedent state-courts supreme-court-precedent | This Court should grant certiorari to decide whether or how Schad v Arizona, 501 U.S. 624 (1991), continues to apply following the decisions in Ramos … |
| 21-1135 | Goyko Gustav Kuburovich v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-02-16 | Denied | Response Waived | bankruptcy bankruptcy-fraud criminal-procedure due-process false-statements federal-prosecution fraud jury-instructions jury-unanimity statutory-interpretation sua-sponte | Where a criminal defendant is prosecuted in federal court for a single count of bankruptcy fraud relying on multiple alleged false statements, each wi… |
| 21-6391 | Hai A. Duong v. Darryl Vannoy, Warden | Louisiana | 2021-11-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-unanimity legislative-amendment non-unanimous-verdict sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation | Louisiana voted to change its Constitution to require unanimous verdicts in non-capital cases where they were not required before. In 1997 and 1998, w… |
| 21-6367 | Dacoby Reshard Wooten v. Florida | Florida | 2021-11-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alternative-theories criminal-procedure felony-murder first-degree-murder jury-unanimity premeditated-murder sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth Amendment requires jury unanimity as to whether a defendant committed premeditated murder or felony murder when the state proceeds o… |
| 21-483 | David Klug v. Florida | Florida | 2021-10-01 | Denied | Response Waived | charging-document criminal-charging due-process fifth-amendment jury-unanimity lewd-and-lascivious-molestation sexual-offenses sixth-amendment | Whether a state prosecuting authority may bundle several single-act offenses concerning the lewd and lascivious molestation of a minor into the same s… |
| 21-5770 | Arthur Perrault v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-09-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 403-balancing-test due-process fair-trial federal-rules-of-evidence jury-unanimity sexual-misconduct | I. Does the uncertainty engendered by the lack of uniform application of Federal Rules of Evidence 413/414 and the 403 balancing test permit district … |
| 21-5192 | Gilberto Antonio Guillen-Hernandez v. Texas | Texas | 2021-07-23 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-law constitutional-requirement continuous-sexual-abuse criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process jury-conviction jury-unanimity sexual-abuse sixth-amendment | Does the constitutional requirement of jury unanimity, contained within the Sixth Amendment of the United States Constitution, require a jury to be un… |
| 20-8450 | Ronald Anthony Gomez v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-06-30 | Denied | IFP | apodaca-v-oregon criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jury-unanimity schad-v-arizona sixth-amendment | I. Does a state trial court 's failure to give a unanimity instruction to a jury in a criminal trial raise a debatable valid claim of the denial of … |
| 20-1571 | Andrew Raymond and Brian Requena v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-05-12 | Denied | Response Waived | analogue-act analogue-enforcement-act controlled-substances criminal-procedure due-process jury-unanimity sixth-amendment vagueness-doctrine | 1. Whether the Controlled Substances Analogue Enforcement Act of 1986 is void for vagueness. 2. Whether the Controlled Substances Analogue Enforcemen… |
| 20-7017 | Dennis Martin Beyer, Jr. v. Texas | Texas | 2021-02-02 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-requirement continuous-sexual-abuse criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process jury-conviction jury-unanimity sixth-amendment texas-court-of-criminal-appeals | Does the constitutional requirement of jury unanimity require a jury to be unanimous as to specific acts of sexual abuse in order to convict a defenda… |
| 20-6935 | Melvin Wofford v. Jeffrey Woods, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2021-01-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-question criminal-trial deliberating-juror deliberation-process judicial-discretion juror-dismissal juror-removal jury-unanimity merits-of-the-case sixth-amendment unanimous-jury-verdict | Does a trial court violate the defendant's Sixth Amendment right to a unanimous jury verdict when the record establishes a reasonable possibility that… |
| 20-973 | Ricky Haywood-Watson v. Texas | Texas | 2021-01-15 | Denied | apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-guarantee continuous-sexual-abuse criminal-procedure jury-unanimity ramos-v-louisiana richardson-v-united-states schad-v-arizona sexual-abuse texas-penal-code | In light of Ramos v. Louisiana, does Section 21.02(d) of the Texas Penal Code violate the constitutional guarantee of jury unanimity by not requiring … | |
| 20-6652 | Rex Duane Stephenson v. Brandon Kelly, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary | Ninth Circuit | 2020-12-18 | Denied | IFP | collateral-review constitutional-rights criminal-trial direct-appeal federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-unanimity post-conviction-relief ramos-v-louisiana sixth-amendment | I. Whether counsel provides ineffective assistance in violation of the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution when he fails to investigate … |
| 20-6515 | Anthony Ponticelli v. Florida | Florida | 2020-12-03 | Denied | IFP | capital-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-state jury-unanimity retroactivity statutory-construction 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 … |
| 20-6218 | Terance Valentine v. Florida | Florida | 2020-11-05 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-waiver criminal-procedure death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-fact-finding jury-unanimity ring-v-arizona | Whether a waiver to an advisory, non-unanimous jury verdict lacking in any fact finding requirement under a death penalty scheme later determined to b… |
| 20-5848 | Richard Bridgeman Gustafson v. Oregon | Oregon | 2020-10-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-unanimity ramos-v-louisiana sixth-amendment state-trial-procedure | If a criminal trial in the State of Oregon did not guarantee a unanimous verdict, leading defendant to choose a bench trial, was this unconstitutional… |
| 20-419 | Stephen Robert Deck v. California | California | 2020-10-01 | Denied | Response Waived | 14th-amendment attempt attempt-offense custodial-arrest due-process jury-instructions jury-unanimity right-to-counsel search-warrant temporal-element unanimity | 1. Whether the temporal direct step element of an attempt offense may be changed by jury instructions to occur on the charged "on or about" dates, or … |
| 20-5610 | Eric J. Brown v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2020-09-08 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-procedure direct-appeal jury-unanimity juvenile-offenders retroactivity sentencing | Under Griffith v. Kentucky, new rules apply to all defendants whose cases are "pending on direct review or not yet final." Petitioner was convicted in… |
| 20-5363 | Reginald Jones v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2020-08-14 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony-conviction firearm jury-trial jury-unanimity obstruction-of-justice ramos-precedent ramos-v-louisiana | In light of this court's recent decision in Ramos v. Louisiana, 140 S.Ct. 1390 (2020), finding nonunanimous jury verdicts in serious criminal cases un… |
| 20-5058 | Randy Estevez v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-07-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process felony-enhancement firearm-possession jury-instructions jury-unanimity sentencing sentencing-reasonableness u-s-sentencing-guidelines unanimity | 1. Whether the district court erred in not instructing the jury that it should be unanimous on the date and location of his alleged possession of the … |
| 19-8845 | Charles Grover Brant v. Florida | Florida | 2020-06-29 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-challenge death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fact-finding fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-trial jury-unanimity jury-waiver | Whether a waiver to an advisory, non-unanimous jury verdict lacking in any fact finding requirement under a death penalty scheme later determined to b… |
| 19-8711 | Willie Dunn v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2020-06-15 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment state-courts | Whether petitioner's conviction based upon a non-unanimous verdict violated the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution? Wh… |
| 19-8688 | Richard Dale Ingram, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-06-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arkansas-law categorical-approach criminal-law divisibility divisibility-analysis eighth-circuit jury-unanimity mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states statutory-interpretation terroristic-threatening | Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals incorrectly applied the divisibility analysis prescribed in Mathis v. United States, 136 S. Ct. 2243 (2016… |
| 19-8062 | Troy Anthony LeBouef v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2020-03-23 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-amendments criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict | Was LeBouef entitled to a unanimous jury verdict under the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution? |
| 19-7236 | John Joseph DeBlase v. Alabama | Alabama | 2020-01-09 | Denied | IFP | capital-case codefendant confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process jury-unanimity sixth-amendment waiver | 1. Do the Sixth Amendment and the Due Process Clause permit, in a capital case, the admission of statements of a nontestifying codefendant, acknowledg… |
| 19-6720 | James Dwayne Myers v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-11-22 | Denied | IFP | criminal-law criminal-procedure divisibility divisibility-analysis eighth-circuit jury-unanimity mathis-standard mathis-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement state-law statutory-interpretation | May a court properly apply the divisibility analysis prescribed in Mathis v. United States, 136 S. Ct. 2243 (2016), without considering the question o… |
| 19-6684 | Rakeem Asaad Davis v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-11-19 | GVR | IFP | 18-usc-922g 6th-amendment 6th-amendment-right-to-jury-trial charged-theories-of-prosecution criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution double-jeopardy due-process felon-in-possession jury-unanimity knowledge-element rehaif-v-united-states richardson-standard richardson-v-united-states sixth-amendment unanimous-jury-verdict uncharged-theories-of-prosecution | Petitioner was charged with possession of a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g). The indictment charged po… |
| 19-6235 | Scott Thomas Erskine v. California | California | 2019-10-10 | Denied | IFP | aggravating-circumstances capital-sentencing constitutional-amendments cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process equal-protection jury-trial jury-unanimity narrowing-requirement sentencing | I. Does California's death penalty statute violate the Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution by failing to… |
| 19-5989 | Errol Victor, Sr. v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2019-09-18 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | 13th-amendment 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-provision direct-review due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-unanimity retroactivity state-constitutional-law thirteenth-amendment verdict-retroactivity | 1. Whether it denies defendant's Fourteenth and Thirteenth Amendment Rights while on direct review not to retroactively vacate a non-unanimous jury ve… |
| 19-5817 | Kendrick Taylor v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2019-09-04 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | apodaca-v-oregon criminal-procedure criminal-trial fourteenth-amendment incorporation-doctrine johnson-v-louisiana jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent unanimous-verdict | The issue presented is whether the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial requires an unanimous jury verdict and, if so, would that unanimity requireme… |
| 19-5807 | Thedrick Edwards v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-04 | Judgment Issued | Amici (20)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-selection jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment state-law | Whether Louisiana's non-unanimous jury requirement for crimes requiring life sentences violates the Sixth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment of the Un… |
| 19-5693 | Harlow Hutchinson v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2019-08-23 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | constitutional-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict | Whether Petitioner was constitutionally entitled to a unanimous jury under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constituti… |
| 19-5450 | Paul Suarez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c appeal conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure drug-trafficking firearm-offense jury-unanimity law-of-the-case legal-sufficiency manifest-injustice sufficiency-of-evidence | 1) DID THE PANEL ERR BY HOL DING THAT THE "LAW OF THE CASE" GOVERNED ITS DECI SION IN HOLDING THAT THE EVIDENCE WAS LEGALLY SUFFICIENT TO SUSTAIN THE … |
| 19-5301 | Aaron Orlando Richards v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2019-07-25 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection first-degree-murder jury-trial jury-unanimity jury-verdict legislative-amendment non-unanimous-verdict prosecutorial-discretion unanimous-verdict | Did the appellate court err in its interpretation of Apodaca Bad Bertrand? In this first degree murder prosecution, the jury returned an eleven-to-one… |
| 19-5260 | Michael Levon Jackson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-07-19 | GVR | IFP | 18-usc-922g acquittal constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process element-of-crime jury-instruction jury-instructions jury-unanimity reasonable-doubt sentencing | Question One The Constitution requires that a jury find every element of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt. The district court, however, did not pro… |
| 18-9806 | Karlynn Romeo Tones, Donta Lyvoid Blackmon, and Arvin Terrill Carmen v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-06-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-conspiracy criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment indictment-specificity jury-instructions jury-unanimity trial-evidence unanimity | Do federal criminal defendants have a constitutional right to a specific unanimity instruction requiring the jury to unanimously define the duration a… |
| 18-9787 | Jace Crehan v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2019-06-25 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | constitutional-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-jury unanimous-verdict | Whether Petitioner was constitutionally entitled to a unanimous jury under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constituti… |
| 18-9754 | Daniel Teitelbaum v. Neil Turner, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-06-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-violation constitutional-violation dna dna-evidence due-process fbi-codis-database guilty-verdict ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel jury-unanimity new-evidence prejudice procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct | 1. DNA, NEW EVIDENCE a. Did flaws in the FBI's CODIS DNA database prejudice the defendant and lead to a guilty verdict? b. Is the discovery of flaws … |
| 18-9693 | Kevin Sheppard v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2019-06-17 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | constitutional-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict | Whether Petitioner was constitutionally entitled to a unanimous jury under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constituti… |
| 18-9464 | Charles William Finney v. Florida | Florida | 2019-05-29 | Denied | IFP | aggravating-factors capital-murder capital-sentencing death-penalty florida-constitution jury-trial jury-unanimity mitigating-circumstances sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth Amendment requires that a jury unanimously find all facts necessary to impose a death sentence in Florida, and whether Florida's cap… |
| 18-9463 | Michael Joseph Brooks, Jr. v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2019-05-29 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | constitutional-amendments criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict | Whether Petitioner was constitutionally entitled to a unanimous jury under the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constituti… |
| 18-9252 | Kevin Foster v. Florida | Florida | 2019-05-15 | Denied | IFP | capital-murder capital-punishment death-penalty death-sentence due-process eighth-amendment first-degree-murder jury-findings jury-unanimity reasonable-doubt unanimous-verdict | 1. Whether Mr. Foster's death sentence is unconstitutional because it violates the Eighth Amendment and the Due Process Clause where the jury did not … |
| 18-9236 | Amy Gonzalez and David Thomas Matusiewicz v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-05-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2261a,overbreadth,free-speech,first-amendme 6th-amendment 6th-amendment-unanimity,criminal-procedure,jury-in 6th-amendment,5th-amendment,sentencing,jury-trial, actus-reus criminal-procedure criminal-procedure,evidence,character-evidence,pre criminal-procedure,evidence,polygraph,crane-v-kent criminal-procedure,jury-instructions,causation,act criminal-verdict due-process jury-instruction jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2261A is unconstitutionally ov Whether a person can be convicted for stalking res Whether Crane v. Kentucky 476 U.S. 683 690 (1986 Whether sentencing courts may continue to violate Whether the admissibility of a civil judicial opin | 1. The Sixth Amendment requires unanimity in jury verdicts. The question presented is: Whether juries must unanimously agree on the actus reus element… |
| 18-9130 | Shaun Allen Dick v. Oregon | Oregon | 2019-05-03 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment incorporation incorporation-doctrine jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-jury-verdict unanimous-verdict | Does the Fourteenth Amendment fully incorporate the Sixth Amendment guarantee of a unanimous verdict? |
| 18-9117 | Scotty Garnell Morrow v. Benjamin Ford, Warden | Georgia | 2019-05-02 | Denied | IFP | death-penalty death-sentence due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida judicial-fact-finding jury-trial jury-unanimity ring-v-arizona sentencing sixth-amendment | "The Sixth Amendment requires a jury, not a judge, to find each fact necessary to impose a sentence of death." Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616, 619 (… |
| 18-9025 | Phillip Newton v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2019-04-29 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | apodaca-v-oregon criminal-trial fourteenth-amendment johnson-v-louisiana jury-trial jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict | The issue presented is whether the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial requires an unanimous jury verdict and, if so, would that unanimity requireme… |
| 18-8858 | Aspen Warren v. Texas | Texas | 2019-04-16 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency jury-unanimity manner-and-means murder murder-conviction state-criminal-law state-statutes statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence | IN A MURDER CASE WHERE UNDER STATE STATUTES A JURY NEED NOT BE UNANIMOUS AS TO MANNER AND MEANS AND ARE ALLOWED TO CHOOSE FROM THREE SEPARATE MANNER A… |
| 18-8748 | Dajuan A. Alridge v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2019-04-09 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection jury-selection jury-unanimity juvenile-sentencing non-unanimous-jury prima-facie prima-facie-case racial-discrimination | 1. Whether statistics alone are sufficient to demonstrate a prima facie case of discrimination in the first step of a Batson analysis? 2. Whether lif… |
| 18-8593 | Dontae Callen v. Alabama | Alabama | 2019-03-27 | Denied | IFP | affidavit appellate-review criminal-procedure death-penalty fourth-amendment jury-unanimity probable-cause search-warrant separate-affidavit | I. Where an affidavit does not support a finding of probable cause for the issuance of a search warrant, does the Fourth Amendment allow a reviewing c… |
| 18-8300 | Paul Glen Everett v. Florida | Florida | 2019-03-06 | Denied | IFP | capital-case capital-punishment constitutional-defect harmless-error harmless-error-review hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-error structural-defect structural-error trial-mechanism | 1. Whether the Sixth Amendment error identified by this Court in Hurst v. Florida is a structural defect that infects the entire constitutionality of … |
| 18-8090 | Edward J. Zakrzewski, II v. Florida | Florida | 2019-02-22 | Denied | IFP | capital-punishment criminal-procedure death-penalty eighth-amendment florida-supreme-court fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-state jury-unanimity retroactive-application retroactivity savings-clause substantive-law | Whether the Florida Supreme Court's decision in Hurst v. State, 202 So. 3d 40 (Fla. 2016), which retroactively changed the elements necessary for impo… |
| 18-7428 | Harry Jones v. Florida | Florida | 2019-01-15 | Denied | IFP | arbitrary-cutoff capital-murder capital-punishment death-penalty death-penalty-retroactivity eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity retroactivity | 1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity rule as to violations pursuant to Hurst v. Florida, which is based on an arbitrary cutoff… |
| 18-763 | Chaka Fattah, Sr. v. United States | Third Circuit | 2018-12-14 | Denied | 6th-amendment circuit-split criminal-procedure deliberations due-process evidence judicial-discretion juror-removal jury-unanimity misconduct-standard standard-of-review | Whether, to remove a juror for alleged misconduct during deliberations, a district court must determine that there is no possibility that the allegati… | |
| 18-6956 | Jason Dirk Walton v. Florida, et al. | Florida | 2018-12-07 | Denied | IFP | capital-murder criminal-law due-process eighth-amendment first-degree-murder jury-unanimity resentencing retrospective-application retrospective-law sentencing-elements substantive-criminal-law | 1. When changes in a state's substantive criminal set out the elements of capital murder which the prosecution must prove to the satisfaction of a una… |
| 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… |
| 18-6800 | Robert Ryan Powell v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-11-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constructive-amendment double-jeopardy fifth-amendment grand-jury indictment jury-instructions jury-unanimity plain-error sixth-amendment statute-of-limitations | Where jury instructions lack the dates and timeframes specified in the indictment, do the jury instructions constructively amend the indictment, and t… |
| 18-6744 | Wesley Wayne Schaefer v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Criminal Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2018-11-20 | Denied | IFP | consequences criminal-procedure de-novo-review double-jeopardy double-jeopardy,lesser-included-offense,state-law, due-process due-process,criminal-procedure,plea-bargaining,eff due-process,equal-protection,fourteenth-amendment, due-process,grand-jury,fifth-amendment,fourteenth- effective-assistance-of-counsel,plea-bargaining,du federal-courts,state-courts,de-novo-review,mixed-q grand-jury guilty-plea ineffective-assistance jury-unanimity plea-bargaining silent-record sixth-amendment,jury-trial,unanimous-verdict,due-p | Whether a Court may assume, from a silent record, the defendant was sufficiently made aware of the consequences of his guilty plea? Whether the Unite… |
| 18-6378 | Robert Ira Peede v. Florida | Florida | 2018-10-18 | Denied | IFP | arbitrary-cutoff capital-murder capital-punishment death-penalty death-penalty-retroactivity due-process eighth-amendment evolving-standards-of-decency fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity retroactivity | 1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity rule as to violations pursuant to Hurst v. Florida, which is based on an arbitrary cutoff… |
| 18-6175 | Victor Tony Jones v. Florida | Florida | 2018-10-02 | Denied | IFP | 1981-homicide 1990-homicide capital-murder criminal-law death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing,hurst-v-state,jury-unanim hurst-v-state jury-unanimity reasonable-doubt retroactive-application retroactivity substantive-criminal-law | 1. Given that the elements of capital murder identified by the Florida Supreme Court in Hurst v. State are being applied in a prosecution for a 1981 h… |
| 18-6115 | Jose Antonio Jimenez v. Florida | Florida | 2018-09-27 | Denied | IFP | capital-murder criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process elements-of-offense hurst-v-state jury-unanimity retrospective-application | 1. Given that the elements of capital murder set out by the Florida Supreme Court in Hurst v. State will govern as to whether James Card is guilty of … |
| 18-5841 | Juan David Rodriguez v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Florida | 2018-08-31 | Denied | IFP | 1981-homicide capital-murder death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing due-process hurst-v-state jury-unanimity reasonable-doubt retroactivity substantive-criminal-law | 1. Given that the elements of capital murder identified by the Florida Supreme Court in Hurst v. State are being applied in a prosecution for a 1981 h… |
| 18-5753 | James Pello v. Dushan Zatecky, Superintendent, Pendleton Correctional Facility | Seventh Circuit | 2018-08-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-error due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-unanimity sixth-amendment unanimous-jury-verdicts | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, along with the Indiana State Court of last resort, have entered a decision in conf… |
| 18-5648 | Anthony Lamarca v. Florida | Florida | 2018-08-20 | Denied | IFP | apprendi-v-new-jersey capital-case death-penalty eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-cruel-and-unusual-punishment fourteenth-amendment fourteenth-amendment-due-process hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity retroactivity ring-v-arizona | 1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity rule as to violations pursuant to Hurst v. Florida, which is based on an arbitrary cutoff… |
| 18-5441 | Milford Wade Byrd v. Florida | Florida | 2018-08-02 | Denied | IFP | capital-murder criminal-procedure death-penalty ex-post-facto hurst-v-state jury-unanimity retroactive-application retroactivity | 1, Given that the elements of capital murder which were identified by the Florida Supreme Court in Hurst v. State will be applied to determine if Jame… |
| 18-5376 | Mark Allen Geralds v. Florida | Florida | 2018-07-27 | Denied | IFP | arbitrary-cutoff capital-murder capital-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity retroactivity | 1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity rule as to violations pursuant to Hurst v. Florida, which is based on an arbitrary cutoff… |
| 18-5354 | Darryl Brian Barwick v. Florida | Florida | 2018-07-25 | Denied | IFP | arbitrary-cutoff capital-murder capital-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity retroactivity | 1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity rule as to violations pursuant to Hurst v. Florida, which is based on an arbitrary cutoff… |
| 18-5352 | Paul Anthony Brown v. Florida | Florida | 2018-07-25 | Denied | IFP | arbitrary-cutoff capital-punishment constitutional-rights death-penalty death-penalty-retroactivity due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity retroactivity | 1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity rule as to violations pursuant to Hurst v. Florida, which is based on an arbitrary cutoff… |
| 18-5309 | Maurice McLain v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-07-20 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | cooperator-testimony currier-v-virginia double-jeopardy double-jeopardy-clause jury-unanimity physical-evidence plea-agreement rico rico-prosecution rutledge-v-united-states santobello-v-new-york uncorroborated-testimony | I. Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals' opinion conflicts with this Court's decisions in Rutledge v. United States, 517 U.S. 292 (1996), Curri… |
| 18-5174 | Michael Allen Griffin v. Florida | Florida | 2018-07-09 | Denied | IFP | aggravating-factors capital-murder civil-procedure civil-rights due-process ex-post-facto jury-unanimity patent retroactivity standing takings | 1. Given the elements of capital murder identified by the Florida Supreme Court in Hurst v. State are being applied in a prosecution for a 1981 homici… |
| 18-5051 | Samuel Jason Derrick v. Florida | Florida | 2018-06-29 | Denied | IFP | arbitrary-cutoff capital-murder capital-punishment death-penalty death-penalty-retroactivity due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hurst-v-florida jury-unanimity retroactivity sentencing | 1. Whether the Florida Supreme Court's partial retroactivity rule as to violations pursuant to Hurst v. Florida, which is based on an arbitrary cutoff… |