| 25-6700 |
Aita Gurung v. Vermont |
Vermont |
2026-02-03 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights jury-selection peremptory-challenges public-trial sixth-amendment waller-standard |
Whether the Sixth Amendment's public trial guarantee applies to the cause and peremptory challenges phase of jury selection or may the court exclude t… |
| 24-7395 |
In Re Isaac Gray |
|
2025-06-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation conflict-of-interest ineffective-assistance peremptory-challenges prosecutorial-misconduct trial-counsel |
1. Did the State court erred in denying trial counsel was ineffective in failing to suggest how cross-examination might have been beneficial concernin… |
| 24-513 |
Darryl Carter, et al. v. James E. Stewart, Sr., in his Official Capacity as District Attorney of Caddo Parish, Louisiana |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-11-05 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights jury-discrimination peremptory-challenges prosecutorial-misconduct racial-bias section-1983 |
1. Does a prospective juror who alleges they were struck as the result of a policy, custom, or usage of racial discrimination have a cause of action u… |
| 24-5668 |
Richard Bernard Moore v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections |
South Carolina |
2024-09-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
batson-challenge equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination voir-dire |
Whether the Supreme Court of South Carolina failed to apply the factors outlined by this Court in Flowers v. Mississippi, 588 U.S. 284, 139 S. Ct. 222… |
| 24A251 |
Darryl Carter, et al. v. James E. Stewart, Sr., in his Official Capacity as District Attorney of Caddo Parish, Louisiana |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-09-10 |
Presumed Complete |
|
civil-rights fourteenth-amendment jury-selection peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination summary-judgment |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5162 |
Johnny Ho v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-07-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure fair-trial impartial-jury judicial-discretion jury-selection peremptory-challenges sixth-amendment voir-dire |
This petition involves questions of exceptional importance for jury selection in trials in all jurisdictions across our nation, involving the process … |
| 23-6804 |
Jonathan Douglas Richardson v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2024-02-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky constitutional-rights flowers-v-mississippi jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes prosecutorial-misconduct racial-animus racial-discrimination |
Whether the Supreme Court of North Carolina violated this Court's clear precedent when it held that trial judges have "broad discretion" to refuse to … |
| 23A588 |
Justin Willis v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-27 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-right habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-selection peremptory-challenges strickland-standard |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5682 |
Dillion Gage Compton v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-10-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (10)IFP |
constitutional-law disparate-treatment equal-protection gender-discrimination jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes side-by-side-analysis trial-procedure |
1. Whether a court's comparison of generalizations about all the female prospective jurors who were struck by the prosecution with generalizations abo… |
| 22-7185 |
Brandon Scott Donaldson v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2023-04-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky but-for-cause civil-rights fair-cross-section jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike pretext race-neutral race-neutral-explanation systematic-underrepresentation |
1. The State used a peremptory challenge on the first Black juror in the jury box. When required to articulate his reasons for the strike, the prosecu… |
| 22-6775 |
Josue Anahun Marquez-Oseguera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Batson-challenge constitutional-law equal-protection implicit-bias jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike race-discrimination race-neutral-reason |
Whether unstable work history automatically qualifies as a race-neutral reason for a peremptory strike in response to a Batson challenge. |
| 22-6579 |
Jaime Hoyos v. Ronald Davis, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
batson-challenge due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination standard-of-review voir-dire |
DID THE NINTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS VIOLATE
PETITIONER'S RIGHTS UNDER THE FOURTEENTH
AMENDMENT BY ITS FAILURE TO APPLY THIS COURT'S
STANDAR D SET F… |
| 22-6438 |
Tommiel Q. Claiborne, aka Tommie Lee Claiborne, Jr., aka Tommie L. Claiborne v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2023-01-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
confrontation constitutional-rights court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure criminal-proceeding due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection legal-assistance peremptory-challenges sixth-amendment |
Ineffective Assistance of Counsel for [PETITIONER] to challenge, due process, and right to effective assistance of counsel which is a violation of the… |
| 22-6107 |
Jarmal Williamson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-11-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky circuit-split equal-protection flowers-v-mississippi jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination |
Does Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986), and its progeny, including Flowers v. Mississippi, 139 S. Ct. 2228 (2019), instruct courts to consider as… |
| 22-5988 |
Clemente Hernandez-Garcia v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-11-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky criminal-procedure discriminatory-intent equal-protection judicial-standard ninth-circuit peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike racial-discrimination |
If a trial court legally errs at step three of Batson, may an appellate court resolve the factual question of whether a party acted with discriminator… |
| 22-5839 |
Daniel Mason v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2022-10-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
batson-challenge constitutional-law due-process equal-protection fair-trial jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike racial-discrimination |
Whether the Colorado Supreme erred in finding no Equal Protection violation when the prosecution impermissibly used race as a reason for the peremptor… |
| 22-5671 |
Andre Juvell Byrd v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2022-09-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
batson-framework batson-v-kentucky due-process equal-protection intentional-discrimination jury-selection mccollum-v-georgia peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination |
Did the Supreme Court of Georgia violate the Equal Protection of the Laws by disallowing three of Petitioner's peremptory challenges to white jurors a… |
| 22-5377 |
Malik Breyon Hollis v. Matthew Magnusson, Warden |
First Circuit |
2022-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jury-composition jury-selection peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination |
Whether peremptory challenges of racial minorities during jury selection in criminal trials should be subjected to a heightened judicial inquiry of st… |
| 22-5359 |
Kareem M. Murray v. Joseph Noeth, Superintendent, Attica Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
2022-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2254 batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky criminal-procedure federal-review habeas-corpus peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike prosecutorial-discrimination supreme-court-precedent unreasonable-determination-of-facts |
1. Whether a state trial court's granting of a prosecutor's challenge to a defendant's use of a peremptory strike, without following the three-step pr… |
| 21-8132 |
James E. Sanicki, Jr. v. Chris S. Buesgen, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review biased-juror constitutional-review due-process judicial-procedure jury-selection legal-standard peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes reversal standard-of-review |
X emn injury selection rebuffed In seating <X laiASftJ ijuror, or<de/>r,v<dlffn <rf the naa/»dcjclecl nw/nber peresnptdfy c.V>ftlle/^ex should have ke… |
| 21-7722 |
Santonio Byars v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2022-04-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky civil-rights equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination voir-dire |
1) Whether the Illinois Appellate Court erred where it did not find that the State's reason requesting the removal of two Black prospective jurors was… |
| 21-7307 |
Jennifer McFarland v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike racial-discrimination venireperson |
Whether the government's preemptory strike of Prospective Juror 128, the sole black venireperson in the 31-member pool of potential jurors, violated M… |
| 21-6747 |
Victor Dewayne Taylor v. Scott Jordan, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-12-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky capital-case constitutional-law habeas-corpus jury-selection peremptory-challenges race-discrimination race-neutral-reason sixth-circuit |
1. Is a statement by the prosecutor that he believed he could discriminatorily remove African-American jurors from the panel as long as he left one Af… |
| 21-6245 |
Robin Moore v. James David Green, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-11-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
batson-challenge civil-rights due-process fair-trial jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike racial-discrimination |
1. Whether the (Court's) failure to specifically find that the prosecution had made a preliminary showing of racial discrimination when denying a crim… |
| 21-5893 |
In Re Sandra Black |
|
2021-10-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-justice civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination standing systematic-exclusion systemic-racism |
1. How is it possible for a black person to have constitutional rights to be treated EQUAL to a white person's rights, privileges, benefits and advant… |
| 21-5147 |
Firas Ayoubi v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-07-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law descamps-v-united-states divisible-statutes due-process equal-protection jury-selection mathis-v-united-states peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation united-states-v-cardena |
held in United State v. Cardena 842 F.3d997 h Ci. 2016)
Soastomae ts Sections [a(), a), a(3 Seprate Crimes
with their Own elemerts?
#2: was the jury … |
| 20-1799 |
Hozie Rowell v. Joan Ferreira, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2021-06-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
batson-challenge civil-rights due-process equal-protection juror-bias jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike racial-discrimination |
Did the court of appeals contravene Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986) when in affirming the peremptory striking of the only qualified African-Ame… |
| 20-8169 |
Yessenia Jimenez v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-05-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
batson-challenge civil-rights cross-examination due-process fifth-amendment hispanic jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes pretextual-reasons |
1. Whether the government violated Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, (1986), in
the trial of a female Hispanic New York City police officer when it use… |
| 20-8000 |
Natalie Marie Keepers v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2021-05-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial impartial-jury interrogation-tactics jury-selection miranda-warnings peremptory-challenges sixth-amendment |
1. Whether a trial court's refusal to remove a potential juror who admits she cannot be certain she can be fair violates the Sixth Amendment guarantee… |
| 20-1560 |
Lowndes County Health Services, LLC v. Gregory Copeland, et al. |
Georgia |
2021-05-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review batson-challenge civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection juror-discrimination jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike race-neutrality racial-discrimination |
1. Whether striking a juror based on allegations of racial prejudice, when unsubstantiated, is not a facially race neutral explanation under step two … |
| 20-7683 |
Paul Wesley Baker v. California |
California |
2021-04-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky constitutional-standard equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination standard-of-review |
When the defense challenges a prosecutor's exercise of a peremptory strike of a prospective juror under Batson v. Kentucky, 487 U.S. 79, 106 S.Ct. 171… |
| 20-1262 |
MarySusan Ward v. Louisville Metro Government |
Kentucky |
2021-03-11 |
Denied |
|
batson-v-kentucky civil-rights equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges supremacy-clause |
This Court in Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986) held that the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment prohibited litig… |
| 20-808 |
Johnny Duane Miles v. California |
California |
2020-12-15 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
batson-challenge batson-claim comparative-juror-analysis death-penalty jury-selection peremptory-challenges pretext prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination |
During jury selection for Johnny Duane Miles's capital murder trial, the prosecutor used his peremptory challenges to remove every Black prospective j… |
| 20-5286 |
Tomas Rodriguez Infante v. Michael Martel, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-defendant due-process equal-protection impartial-jury jury-selection peremptory-challenges racial-bias racial-discrimination |
1. "This Court firmly has rejected the view that assumptions of partiality based on race provide a legitimate basis for disqualifying a person as an i… |
| 20-5036 |
Jermond Perry v. Jeffrey Woods, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky equal-protection habeas-corpus jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination sixth-amendment |
I. Was counsel's objection at the moment
the pattern emerged sufficient to warrant
a full Batson inquiry withrespect to all strikes in the alleged p… |
| 19-8332 |
Robert Boyd Rhoades v. California |
California |
2020-04-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
batson-challenge civil-rights due-process equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenge peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination |
1. Whether, by hypothesizing reasons the prosecutors might have had to use half of their peremptory challenges to excuse all four prospective African-… |
| 19-8196 |
Larry Grant Gentry v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2020-04-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
and whether a court should assess such a strike u batson-challenge Batson-v-Kentucky civil-rights due-process jury-selection objective-observer-test peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike purposeful-discrimination racial-discrimination |
1. Whether a party taints the entire jury selection proceedings by providing a racially discriminatory basis for exercising a peremptory strike at the… |
| 19-8047 |
Richard E. Daniel v. Timothy C. Ward, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
coercion constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination right-to-trial |
(1) Is 1T LAWFUL FOR A DEFENDANT WNOH HAS WAIVED ARRAIGNMENT
IN WRITING WITH A PLEA OF NOT GUILTY T% BE BROUGHT BEFORE A TAIAL
SUDGE OVER THE SOURSE O… |
| 19-7467 |
Frankie Beqiraj v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-01-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-presence due-process jury-selection peremptory-challenges right-to-be-present waiver |
1. Whether a defendant has a constitutional right to be present during a conference at which the parties exercise their peremptory challenges to strik… |
| 19-7108 |
Devell Moore v. Robert LeGrand, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky equal-protection fair-trial jury-selection ninth-circuit peremptory-challenges purkett-v-elem trial-procedure |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in denying a Certificate of Appealability on Moore's claim he was denied equal protection of the law, and a fair trial… |
| 19-6272 |
Mauricio Lara-Bonilla v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky civil-rights discriminatory-intent due-process equal-protection juror-bias jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike trial-court-discretion |
For claims that a party had a discriminatory intent in using a peremptory strike against a prospective juror under Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (19… |
| 19-6190 |
Jermaine Gerald Cook, et al. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-07 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination racial-quotas sixth-amendment |
Did the Ninth Circuit's disposition of Petitioners' Batson claim, which minimized the constitutional import of the government prosecutor's offer to em… |
| 19-5132 |
Kenneth D. Sills v. Anne L. Precythe, Director, Missouri Department of Corrections |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
batson-v-kentucky constitutional-rights criminal-procedure flowers-v-mississippi ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection peremptory-challenges prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination sixth-amendment |
WHETHER CERTIORARI SHOULD BE GRANTED WHERE TRIAL COUNSEL WAS INEFFECTIVE IN FAILING TO OBJECT TO THE PROSECUTIONS 'S PRETEXTUAL EXPLANATION FOR EXERCI… |
| 18-9824 |
Steven G. Patten v. California |
California |
2019-06-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection flight-instruction fourteenth-amendment harmless-error jury-selection peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination self-defense |
1. Whether Petitioner can establish a prima facie case of discrimination
under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when the pro- … |
| 18-9648 |
Jamelle Edward Armstrong v. California |
California |
2019-06-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
african-american batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky due-process equal-protection federal-question jury-selection peremptory-challenges race-neutrality supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review |
Did the California Supreme Court improperly decide the issue of the race-neutrality of respondent's exercise of its trial peremptory challenges to exc… |
| 18-9423 |
Ayanna Angle v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky constitutional-procedure equal-protection harmless-error judicial-review jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination |
When a court of appeals finds that a district court, in overruling an objection to the prosecution's use of peremptory juror strikes, failed to comple… |
| 18-9339 |
Anthony Dajuan Yates v. California |
California |
2019-05-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
batson batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky criminal-procedure disparate-impact equal-protection juror-selection jury-selection peremptory-challenge peremptory-challenges race-neutral-explanation racial-profiling |
I. Does a prosecutor's peremptory challenge of a prospective African-American juror based on the juror's perception of racial profiling by law enforce… |
| 18-9149 |
John David Brookins v. Tammy Ferguson, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Phoenix, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-05-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
equal-protection evidence-suppression ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection peremptory-challenges prosecutorial-misconduct constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jury-selection peremptory-challenges prosecutorial-misconduct |
[I] THE PETITIONER'S CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS OF DUE PROCESS AND EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE LAW WERE VIOLATED WHEN THE LOWER STATE AND FEDERAL COURT DENIED … |
| 18-9118 |
Emanual Deleon Fields v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination standing |
IN TIS CASE FIELDS' OUESTITONED PRESENTED WEITON THIS CASE. WAS IS U.S. CONSITUTIONEL LIGTTS NELE DENTED IN TRIAL COULT NIHEN LOSECUTION DENIED MIS U.… |
| 18-9101 |
Pierre Montanez v. Ursula Walowski |
Illinois |
2019-05-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-jurisdiction federalism judicial-regulation judicial-review peremptory-challenges separation-of-powers standing supremacy-clause supreme-court-precedent |
Question not identified. |
| 18-8802 |
Eli Vernon, III, aka Eli Mims v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-11 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
counsel-objection criminal-procedure due-process duren-analysis duren-v-missouri equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection peremptory-challenge peremptory-challenges strickland-standard strickland-v-washington systematic-exclusion |
DOES THE FIRST PRONG IN DUREN V MISSOURI, 439 U.S. 357, 364, 99 5.Ct.664, 668, 58 L.E.cf.2c1 579 (1979), IF MET ESTABLISH A SYSTEMATIC EXCLUSION FOR C… |
| 18-8074 |
Javonte T. Morgan v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2019-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
challenge-for-cause civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial judicial-proceedings jury-selection peremptory-challenges standard-of-review standing sufficiency-of-evidence |
Did Louisiana Courts err in denying Javonte Morgan's right to a fair trial and subsequent review when rejecting claims involving Conflicting Decisions… |
| 18-7594 |
James Randall Rogers v. Benjamin Ford, Warden |
Georgia |
2019-01-28 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
capital-cases civil-rights death-penalty equal-protection habeas-corpus jury-discrimination jury-selection peremptory-challenges prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination racial-exclusion standing |
Does Lanier's systematic discrimination against African Americans violate Strauder v. West Virginia, 100 U.S. 303 (1880), Swain v. Alabama, 380 U.S. 2… |
| 18-7536 |
Jason M. Reeves v. Darrell Vannoy, Warden |
Louisiana |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes prima-facie-case racial-discrimination side-by-side-comparison voir-dire |
In jury selection for the second trial in this case, the State used 7 of its 12 peremptory challenges on African-Americans, removing only 5 of the 23 … |
| 18-7094 |
Floyd Daniel Smith v. California |
California |
2018-12-19 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (2)IFP |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky due-process equal-protection flowers-v-mississippi jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination |
This case involves the killing of a white teenager by a black defendant. The case was so racially charged that the defense attorneys – who were also b… |
| 18-749 |
JoEllen Mary Crossett v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2018-12-11 |
Denied |
|
conflicts-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel impartial-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juror-bias jury-selection peremptory-challenges prejudice sixth-amendment state-and-federal-rights trial-procedure |
Was Petitioner denied her state and federal rights to the effective assistance of counsel, and did Michigan Court of Appeals err when it confirmed wit… |
| 18-6919 |
Marcelo Joel Santos-Cordero v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-06 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
batson batson-challenge circuit-split civil-rights discriminatory-intent due-process equal-protection judicial-review jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike racial-discrimination |
Following a remand, must a trial court that is retrospectively analyzing whether a peremptory strike violated Batson's prohibition against discriminat… |
| 18-6624 |
Farris Genner Morris v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2018-11-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
batson-challenge-review batson-v-kentucky collateral-review due-process equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination |
Where the trial prosecutor's rationale for striking the lone black juror applied "just as well" to two white jurors, Foster v. Chatman, 136 S. Ct. 173… |
| 18-6411 |
Ennis Reed v. California |
California |
2018-10-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discrimination due-process equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges racial-bias racial-discrimination voir-dire |
HAS CALIFORNIA AGAIN DEPARTED FROM THE FEDERAL
STANDARDS GOVERNING DETERMINATIONS OF RACIAL BIAS
DURING JURY VOIR DIRE? |
| 18-6306 |
Amy Hebert v. James Rogers, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-16 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
comparative-juror-analysis due-process equal-protection gender-discrimination ineffective-assistance-of-counsel j.e.b.-v.-alabama jury-discrimination miller-el-v.-dretke peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes |
1. When reviewing a claim of gender discrimination in violation of J.E.B. v. Alabama, is comparative juror analysis appropriate even where the male an… |
| 18-6309 |
Warren Justin Hardy v. California |
California |
2018-10-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
comparative-analysis equal-protection fair-trial fourteenth-amendment jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination racial-overtones sixth-amendment |
Whether, in a case with racial overtones, the California Supreme Court's refusal to conduct a meaningful comparative analysis, or infer a likelihood o… |
| 18-6286 |
Lisa Jo Chamberlin v. Pelicia E. Hall, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-10 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (2)IFP |
batson batson-v-kentucky civil-rights comparative-juror-analysis equal-protection habeas-corpus jury-selection peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination |
1. Whether a court reviewing a Batson claim may consider reasons distinguishing stricken jurors from those accepted by the prosecutor when the disting… |
| 18-352 |
South Carolina v. Raymond Lewis Young |
South Carolina |
2018-09-18 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review batson-challenge batson-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure deference-to-trial-court discretionary-review equal-protection federal-question jury-selection peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination trial-court-deference |
Whether, upon reversing Respondent's conviction on grounds that: "The trial court erred in failing to conduct a proper analysis under the third step o… |
| 18-5880 |
Virginia S. Caudill v. Janet Conover, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-09-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky circumstantial-evidence civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-selection peremptory-challenges prosecutorial-discrimination racial-discrimination sixth-amendment standing |
Virginia Caudill stands convicted of capital murder. The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky dismissed her Petition for Habeas Co… |
| 18-5233 |
Edgar Alejandro Radillo, et al. v. Rosemary Ndoh, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-07-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
batson-challenge civil-rights due-process equal-protection Fourteenth-Amendment jury-selection minority-jurors non-minority-jurors peremptory-challenges prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-motivation racial-discrimination Sixth-Amendment |
1. In a case where the prosecutor has exercised peremptory challenges against minority panelists citing traits shared by non-minority panelists who we… |
| 18-5152 |
Rodney Howard v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-07-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky criminal-procedure equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes prima-facie prima-facie-case prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination |
1. Does a black defendant make a prima facie showing of discriminatory use of peremptory strikes under Batson's first step when he demonstrates that t… |