peremptory-strike
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 24-6189 | Maurice Duncan Burks v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-12-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | batson-challenge due-process jury-selection peremptory-strike racial-bias voir-dire | I. Whether it violates Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986), for the government to begin its voir dire by targeting a young, black woman with a deli… |
| 24-5659 | Luis Angel Cruz-Cruz v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-09-30 | Denied | IFP | batson-challenge constitutional-law gender-bias jury-selection peremptory-strike racial-discrimination | In the trial of Luis Angel Cruz-Cruz, a prosecutor used a peremptory strike to keep a Latino man off the jury. The prosecutor said that he preferred a… |
| 24-5173 | Sir Mario Owens v. Colorado | Colorado | 2024-07-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky criminal-justice-system driving-while-black equal-protection juror-bias jury-selection peremptory-strike peremptory-strikes race-neutral race-neutral-justification racial-discrimination | 1. Whether expressly linking a black juror's remark in a jury questionnaire indicating that he had an "unpleasant experience" with police (namely, "dr… |
| 24-5072 | Juan Rangel-Rubio v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-07-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | batson-challenge equal-protection juror-discrimination jury-selection peremptory-strike race-neutral-reasons voir-dire | Did the district courts dearly err by denying Mr.Rangel-Rubio's Batson Challenge to the government's peremptory strike of juror number 31 where the g… |
| 23-6534 | Lucious M. Jackson v. Florida | Florida | 2024-01-23 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fraud jury-selection peremptory-strike racial-discrimination scotus | (1) Whether the state court's disregard of a Officer of the Court Reliance on FRAUD to Justify A Discriminatory Jury Strike Contradicts the Holding of… |
| 23-5710 | Darryl Burghardt v. Tammy L. Campbell, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2023-10-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | batson-challenge civil-rights due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance jury-selection peremptory-strike racial-discrimination | (1) Whether Petitioner Darryl Burghardt's trial counsel performed deficiently by refusing to raise, and thereby waiving, a meritorious Batson objectio… |
| 23-5089 | Garland Bernell Harper v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2023-07-13 | Denied | IFP | batson batson-challenge certificate-of-appealability equal-protection fifth-circuit habeas ineffective-assistance jury-selection peremptory-strike race-discrimination | This case arises from the State's peremptory challenge to a Black juror which Mr. Harper challenged as purposefully discriminatory. At trial, the Bats… |
| 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. |
| 22-5988 | 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… |
| 22-5667 | Charles Stevens v. Ron Davis, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2022-09-22 | Denied | IFP | aedpa batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky comparative-juror-analysis flowers-v-mississippi habeas-corpus-standard juror-similarity miller-el-v-dretke ninth-circuit-review peremptory-strike race-based-challenge racial-discrimination | 1. Whether a state court improperly expands or modifies the standard this Court established in Batson v. Kentucky and its progeny, when it requires a … |
| 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… |
| 21-7307 | 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… |
| 21-950 | Ker'Sean Olajuwa Ramey v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2021-12-29 | Denied | 28-usc-2254 batson-claim batson-v-kentucky certificate-of-appealability fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance martinez-trevino peremptory-strike racial-bias | 1. In rejecting Ramey's claim for relief under Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986) ("Batson Claim") and ignoring Ramey's argument that 28 U.S.C. § … | |
| 21-6659 | Glen Seals v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2021-12-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky habeas-corpus johnson-v-california judicial-review mixed-question-of-fact-and-law peremptory-strike prima-facie prima-facie-case race-discrimination standard-of-review | 1. Whether, under Johnson v. California, 545 U.S. 162 (2005), a court may supply and consider potential race-neutral reasons for a prosecutor's peremp… |
| 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… |
| 21-5649 | Javon Pierre Shelby v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-09-13 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky discriminatory-purpose equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-strike peremptory-strikes racial-bias racial-discrimination step-three-finding | When a trial court denies a Batson motion as to one juror at step one and then, in response to a second Batson motion as to a subsequently struck juro… |
| 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… |
| 20-1560 | 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 … |
| 20-1431 | Charmell Brown v. Alex Jones, Acting Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2021-04-13 | Denied | Response Waived | batson-framework batson-v-kentucky jury-selection peremptory-strike pretext prima-facie-case prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination | Whether, at Batson's first step and in the absence of any explanation from the prosecutor, a court may rely on factors apparent in the record to expla… |
| 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… |
| 20-6386 | James Ray Earl Walker v. Nevada | Nevada | 2020-11-19 | Denied | IFP | batson-framework death-penalty juror-selection jury-selection peremptory-strike race-discrimination racial-discrimination state-courts voir-dire | Did the Nevada courts err in failing to observe and follow the three step Batson framework and failing to recognize the prosecutor's blatant discrimin… |
| 19-8402 | John Pacchiana v. Florida | Florida | 2020-05-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech jury-selection peremptory-strike racial-discrimination standing | Whether this Court should grant a Writ of Certiorari to review the decision of the Florida Supreme Court finding that counsel failed to preserve an ob… |
| 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… |
| 19-7857 | Chance Dechristian Adams v. Minnesota | Minnesota | 2020-03-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky circuit-split equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-strike peremptory-strikes pretext prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination standard-of-review | When a peremptory strike of a prospective juror is challenged under Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986), and a prosecutor offers multiple reasons f… |
| 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… |
| 19-6252 | Edinson Herrera Ramirez v. Maryland | Maryland | 2019-10-11 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | abuse-of-discretion appellate-review biased-jury criminal-procedure discretion ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion jury-selection legal-standard maryland-court-of-appeals peremptory-challenge peremptory-strike prejudice | WHETHER THE MARYLAND COURT OF APPEALS ERRED AND ABUSED ITS DISCRETION IN HOLDING THAT PETITIONER HAD RECEIVED INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL BY COU… |
| 19-5761 | Javon Laren Martin v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Fourth Circuit | 2019-08-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection evidence jury-selection mistrial peremptory-strike racial-discrimination | Question not identified. |
| 19-5449 | Richard Shelley v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-08-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial jury-selection peremptory-strike sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-fair-trial | WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED IN FINDING THAT SHELLEY FAILED TO OBJECT TO THE GOVERNMENT'S USE OF A PEREMPTORY STRIKE, THEREBY CAUSING AN 5th AMEND… |
| 18-7144 | Rodney Russell v. United States | First Circuit | 2018-12-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky civil-rights criminal-procedure-peremptory-challenges due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-selection peremptory-strike powers-v-ohio racial-discrimination standing | I. Whether a district court has an obligation to inquire of the prosecution as to the substance behind their stated reasons as to why they used a pere… |
| 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… |
| 18-6802 | Patrick Kitlas v. F. B. Haws, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2018-11-26 | Denied | IFP | actual-reason actual-reasons batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky due-process equal-protection evidentiary-hearing jury-selection ninth-circuit peremptory-strike prosecutor-reasons prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination | Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986) requires prosecutors to provide their actual reasons for striking jurors. The prosecutor here provided reasons … |
| 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… |
| 24A286 | Marcellus S. Williams v. David Vandergriff, Warden | Eighth Circuit | Denied | batson-violation equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-strike prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination | Whether the trial prosecutor's use of a peremptory strike against a Black venireperson based on the prosecutor's stated belief that the venireperson l… |