| 25-6846 |
Tony Terrell Clark v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2026-02-18 |
Pending |
IFP |
batson-challenge capital-punishment due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel peremptory-strikes strickland-prejudice |
1. whether a post-conviction petitioner must prove a successful Batson challenge would change the outcome of the trial to show Strickland prejudice.
… |
| 25-938 |
James Garfield Broadnax v. Texas |
Texas |
2026-02-06 |
Pending |
|
batson-violation constitutional-law equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-strikes race-discrimination |
Whether the State's considering race as a basis for striking prospective jurors, shown by its listing prospective jurors by race on a spreadsheet used… |
| 24-7351 |
Terry Pitchford v. Burl Cain, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-03 |
Granted |
Amici (10)Relisted (8)IFP |
batson-challenge capital-punishment equal-protection habeas-corpus peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination |
1. Does clearly established federal law determined by this Court and applied in six other circuits require reversal of a state appellate court's denia… |
| 24-6336 |
Christopher Michael Montoya v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2025-01-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-case constitutional-rights due-process jury-impartiality morgan-precedent peremptory-strikes |
Did the Arizona Supreme Court deprive Mr. Montoya of the right to an impartial jury and to due process of law guaranteed to him under the Fifth, Sixth… |
| 24-5591 |
Guy Benjamin Bowman v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
jury-selection peremptory-strikes racial-bias structural-error trial-procedure voir-dire |
Whether the trial court's refusal to ask of the all-White venire defendant's voir dire questions on racial bias, deprivation of the defendant of the c… |
| 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… |
| 23-7499 |
Russell William Tucker v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2024-05-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky burden-of-proof disparate-treatment equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-strikes prima-facie-case prosecutorial-misconduct racial-discrimination |
I. Whether the Supreme Court of North Carolina was free to reject evidence of disparate treatment and impose on Petitioner the crippling burden of sho… |
| 23-7167 |
Joseph Lochuch Ewalan v. Washington |
Washington |
2024-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
batson-challenge civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination standing |
This courts precedent in the united states Vi Flowers v. Mississippi, 139 set. (2019), Kentucky v. Batson, 476 U.S. 79, Miller-elv.dretke, 545 U.S. 23… |
| 23A806 |
Russell William Tucker v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2024-03-01 |
Presumed Complete |
|
batson-challenge death-penalty equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination |
Question not identified. |
| 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 … |
| 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… |
| 22-6951 |
Zachariah Marcyniuk v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-03-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-fairness judicial-misconduct peremptory-strikes procedural-default state-officials supervisory-powers |
In this capital habeas case, the Eighth Circuit decided important questions
of federal law in a way that conflicts with relevant decisions of this Cou… |
| 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… |
| 22-6107 |
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… |
| 22-5679 |
Dwandarrius Jamar Robinson v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2022-09-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
batson-challenge discriminatory-intent disparate-impact due-process equal-protection jury-selection misstatements-of-fact peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination |
Dwandarrius Robinson is a black man who was sentenced to death by a jury that the State scrubbed clean of all but one minority juror. The State used i… |
| 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… |
| 21-7584 |
William O. Dickerson v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2022-04-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
batson-challenge civil-rights comparative-juror-analysis due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection peremptory-strikes post-conviction-review racial-discrimination standing voir-dire |
1. Did the state postconviction court violate Batson and its progeny by refusing to consider evidence that this Court's precedent expressly permits?
… |
| 21-7475 |
Edward James Rose v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2022-03-28 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky constitutional-inquiry discriminatory-purpose equal-protection judicial-speculation jury-selection peremptory-strikes prosecutorial-discretion |
In Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986), this Court developed a three-step inquiry to determine whether a party's peremptory strikes were unconstitu… |
| 21-7455 |
Don'te Lamont McDaniel v. California |
California |
2022-03-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
batson-challenge civil-rights due-process equal-protection jury-selection mixed-motive peremptory-strikes prosecutorial-bias racial-bias racial-discrimination racial-stereotypes |
This case presents an important question over which lower courts are openly and intractably divided regarding the proper method for assessing mixed mo… |
| 21-1110 |
Travis Boys v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2022-02-10 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
batson-challenge Batson-v-Kentucky due-process Johnson-v-California jury-selection peremptory-strikes prima-facie-case racial-discrimination |
Whether, in conflict with Johnson v. California, 545 U.S. 162 (2005), the Louisiana appellate court applied an impermissibly high burden of proof at t… |
| 21-6661 |
Alonzo Cortez Johnson v. Jimmy Martin, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-12-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky criminal-procedure habeas-corpus jury-selection peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination reconstruction-hearing waiver |
Do the normal rules of waiver apply in a situation like this to preclude a reconstruction hearing where the State has failed to offer any reasons for … |
| 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… |
| 20-8169 |
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… |
| 20-7758 |
Benjamin E. Vance v. Frank B. Bishop, Jr., Warden, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-04-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
batson-challenge constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial jury-selection peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination |
Did the lower courts violate Petitioner's Constitutional rights under the 14 Amendment to Due Process, Equal Protection clause, and U.S. Amendment VI;… |
| 20-5987 |
William J. Truesdale v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2020-10-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
batson-challenge civil-rights due-process equal-protection jury-selection neil-challenge peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination standing |
Whether a state trial court's brief colloquy and abbreviated review of evidence relevant to a Batson challenge satisfied its obligation under step thr… |
| 20-5441 |
Craig Saunders v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-08-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
batson civil-rights constitutional-challenge cross-examination federal-procedure habeas-corpus peremptory-strikes rule-60b |
1. Whether reasonable jurists could debate that the District Court's limitation on the cross-examination of the prosecutor about objections to the use… |
| 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… |
| 19-7857 |
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… |
| 19-7745 |
Willie B. Smith, III v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-02-24 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
batson-challenge collateral-review death-penalty death-penalty-law hall-v-florida intellectual-disability moore-v-texas peremptory-strikes prosecutor-conduct prosecutorial-discretion retroactive-application retroactivity substantive-rules |
1. Whether Hall v. Florida , 134 S. Ct. 1986 (2014), and Moore v. Texas , 137 S. Ct. 1039 (2017), announced new substantive rules that apply retroacti… |
| 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… |
| 19-5072 |
Troy Lee Bridges v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-03 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
batson-challenge certificate-of-appealability fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel peremptory-strikes prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review voir-dire |
Did the Fifth Circuit err in deferring to the Federal court finding that Mr. Bridges was not prejudiced by his findings and the prosecutors conduct du… |
| 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… |
| 18-7536 |
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… |
| 18-7016 |
Tuad Damonn Washington v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky civil-rights constitutional-claims discrimination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-selection peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination sixth-amendment standing |
1. Would jurists of reason find the district courts assesment of Washington's constitutional claims debatable or wrong; or that the petition should ha… |
| 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… |
| 18-5152 |
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… |
| 24A409 |
Richard Bernard Moore v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections |
South Carolina |
|
Denied |
|
batson-challenge death-penalty equal-protection jury-selection peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination |
Question not identified. |