manifest-necessity
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-5401 | Gregory Matthew Seay v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2025-08-19 | Denied | IFP | collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights double-jeopardy equal-protection manifest-necessity mistrial | (1) DOES THE OKLAHOMA COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS' DECISION IN THE INSTANT CASE CONTRADICT THE DECISION OF THE UNITED STATES COURT OF THE NORTHERN DISTR… |
| 24-317 | Tommy Lee Benton v. South Carolina | South Carolina | 2024-09-20 | Denied | Response Waived | double-jeopardy ends-of-justice judicial-discretion manifest-necessity mistrial-standard trial-court-discretion | Whether a trial judge must consider all viable alternatives to a mistrial before finding manifest necessity exists. |
| 24-32 | Donavan J. White Owl, aka DJ v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-07-12 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy eighth-circuit implied-consent manifest-necessity mistrial waiver | The double jeopardy clause prevents the retrial of a criminal case after mistrial unless the defendant consents or if the mistrial was for manifest ne… |
| 23-622 | Dale Thrush v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-12-08 | Denied | Response Waived | arizona-v-washington circuit-split constitutional-review double-jeopardy fifth-amendment manifest-necessity mistrial-standard prosecution-evidence standard-of-review trial-court-discretion | 1. Whether this Court should adopt an objectively reasonable approach when evaluating whether the trial court's declaration of a mistrial was supporte… |
| 19-828 | Charles Garske, et al. v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-12-31 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy government-misconduct manifest-necessity mistrial oregon-v-kennedy retrial united-states-v-perez | For purposes of determining whether the Double Jeopardy Clause bars a second prosecution, does the test enunciated in Oregon v. Kennedy, 456 U.S. 667 … |
| 19-516 | Nolan Espinda, Director, Hawaii Department of Public Safety, et al. v. Royce C. Gouveia | Ninth Circuit | 2019-10-21 | Denied | appellate-deference appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review custody federal-district-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction federal-review habeas-corpus Hawai'i-sovereign-right manifest-necessity mistrial-declaration rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-judgments | This case presents clear and intractable conflicts regarding: 1) the Rooker-Feldman doctrine and the limitations it imposes on the jurisdiction of low… | |
| 19-311 | Al Cannon, Sheriff, Charleston County, South Carolina v. Broderick William Seay, Jr. | Fourth Circuit | 2019-09-06 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9) | appellate-review deference double-jeopardy fact-finding federal-habeas manifest-necessity mistrial strict-scrutiny trial-court-deference trial-court-discretion | I. In review of a state decision under 28 U.S.C. § 2241, when a federal appellate court must determine if double jeopardy protection bars retrial afte… |
| 18-9686 | Bobby Bordelon v. Texas | Texas | 2019-06-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-conflict constitutional-issue criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment habeas-corpus manifest-necessity mistrial mistrial-standard texas-courts | There are three reasons petitioner contends that this Court should grant certiorari of this federal constitutional issue regarding whether the Fifth A… |
| 18-6423 | Marlan McRae v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-10-24 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | attorney-misconduct conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process fiduciary-conflict fiduciary-conflict-of-interest fiduciary-duty ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-ethics manifest-necessity sixth-amendment vague-precedent | Can the unconscionable and illegal actions of an attorney, in addition to a fiduciary conflict of interest between an attorney and his client, amount … |
| 18-6001 | Demario Carman v. Georgia | Georgia | 2018-09-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment manifest-necessity mistrial-exception reasonableness trial-court trial-court-discretion | Whether the protection against Double Jeopardy contained in the Fifth Amendment is an empty promise where determinations as to what is "manifest neces… |