prosecutorial-bias
8 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-7063 | Randy W. Duck v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction | Eighth Circuit | 2025-04-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | eighth-circuit ineffective-assistance juror-impartiality jury-bias prosecutorial-bias trial-counsel | Mr. Duck alleged that his trial counsel was ineffective for failing to remove presumed impartial jurors that sat on the jury. Should they have been di… |
| 23-6980 | Matthew Murphy v. United States | First Circuit | 2024-03-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bias constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea prosecutorial-bias recusal sixth-amendment structural-error | 1. Whether This Court Should Grant This Petition Because The Failure To Exclude The United States District Attorney's Office For the District of Massa… |
| 23-6182 | Joshua Anthony Peterman v. Mississippi | Mississippi | 2023-12-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal criminal-procedure due-process habitual-offender indictment ineffective-assistance judicial-bias jury-indictment prosecutorial-bias sentencing speedy-trial | (1) Whether the trial Court erred in amending Judgment and hate Sentencing to not* dual in violation of fllx, ft-Crim. P, Rule ti&lH,i (h) (d) Whethe… |
| 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… |
| 20-5241 | Dewoyne Curtis Potts v. John Garza | Ninth Circuit | 2020-07-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | batson batson-challenge comparative-juror-analysis discriminatory-pretext juror-strike miller-el-standard miller-el-v-dretke mischaracterization-of-testimony ninth-circuit prosecutorial-bias race-based-questioning | In this case involving a Black defendant, the prosecutor struck the sole Black juror remaining on the venire (the only other Black veniremember was st… |
| 18-9517 | Kenneth R. Isom v. Arkansas | Arkansas | 2019-06-03 | Denied | Relisted (7)IFP | adversarial-history bias coram-nobis criminal-procedure due-process judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal prosecutorial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct recusal trial-procedure | Sam Pope, as elected prosecutor for Arkansas's Tenth Judicial District, brought charges against Kenneth Isom three times in the span of 13 months. Iso… |
| 18-8240 | Howard Anthony Moniz v. Michigan | Michigan | 2019-03-06 | Denied | IFP | conflict-of-interest due-process judicial-disqualification judicial-impartiality post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct recusal recusal-standard | I, Should the State Circuit Court Judge be disqualified from ruling on a collateral appeal for relief from judgmint where he personally opposed post-c… |
| 18-6704 | Aaron Jonathon Zemke v. Michigan | Michigan | 2018-11-14 | Denied | IFP | abuse-of-discretion bias criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance judicial-bias judicial-discretion motion-to-withdraw plea-bargain plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal prejudice prosecutorial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-court-discretion | Mr. Zemke received ineffective assistance under the Sixth Amendment when counsel misrepresented Mr. Zemke's case to induce a plea bargain, prejudiced … |