racial-bias
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6224 | Latoya K. Benton, Administrator of the Estate of Xzavier D. Hill, Deceased v. Seth W. Layton, Individually and in His Official Capacity as a State Trooper for the State of Virginia, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-11-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | excessive-force fourth-amendment police-conduct qualified-immunity racial-bias summary-judgment | 1. Whether the Fourth Amendment requires courts to apply a holistic, totality-of-the-circumstances analysis to excessive force claims, including all p… |
| 25-5633 | Mica Alexander Martinez v. Christe Quick, Warden | Tenth Circuit | 2025-09-15 | Denied | IFP | capital-sentencing due-process ineffective-assistance juror-unanimity prosecutorial-misconduct racial-bias | Mica Martinez is a Native American steeped in Comanche culture. Mr. Martinez's defense counsel at trial warned the prosecution of putting on a "wild c… |
| 25-5549 | Vladislav Konstantin Aksenov v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-09-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment racial-bias trial-procedure | Do the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit the government at trial from implicitly evoking stereotypes about a defendant's racial or ethnic backg… |
| 24-6993 | Deon D. Colvin v. Superior Court of the District of Columbia | District of Columbia | 2025-04-15 | Denied | IFP | disqualification due-process fifth-amendment judicial-bias mandamus racial-bias | 1. Did the D.C. Court of Appeals deny Applicant's Fifth Amendment right to Due Process by not including 743 Fairmont Street NW LLC as a party in the p… |
| 24-6376 | Marion Bowman, Jr. v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. | South Carolina | 2025-01-23 | Denied | IFP | capital-sentencing constitutional-rights criminal-trial due-process ineffective-assistance racial-bias | Marion Bowman's capital trial counsel predicated his defense upon, and repeatedly injected, odious racial stereotypes about Bowman, a black man, and h… |
| 24-774 | Reginald Keith Clark v. Colorado | Colorado | 2025-01-22 | Denied | Amici (2)Response WaivedRelisted (2) | for-cause-challenge fourteenth-amendment jury-selection racial-bias sixth-amendment trial-court-discretion | Whether a trial court violates a defendant's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights when it erroneously denies a for-cause challenge to a racially bias… |
| 24A715 | Toya Gibson v. Ridgewells Catering | Fifth Circuit | 2025-01-21 | Presumed Complete | employment-discrimination golf-tournament pro-se-petition racial-bias supreme-court-review women's-open | Question not identified. | |
| 24-6323 | Ernest Green v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-01-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-trial impartial-jury racial-bias sixth-amendment voir-dire | In a criminal trial, does the right to an impartial jury, guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment, require a defendant of a minority race to be afforded voi… |
| 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… |
| 24-627 | Scuderia Development, LLC, et al. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-12-09 | Denied | Response Waived | court-procedure ethnic-discrimination fair-trial jury-selection racial-bias voir-dire | Whether the district court's refusal to ask defense-requested voir dire questions intended to identify existing anti-Asian and Chinese political, ethn… |
| 24A490 | Reginald Keith Clark v. Colorado | Colorado | 2024-11-15 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-rights equal-protection fair-trial jury-selection peremptory-challenge racial-bias | Question not identified. | |
| 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… | |
| 24-5591 | 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… |
| 24-290 | Rahul Manchanda v. Abigail Reardon, et al. | Second Circuit | 2024-09-13 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights discrimination ethnic-discrimination legal-complaint minority-rights racial-bias | Whether it is "racist, " "antisemitic, " or "offensive " for a relatively new racial, ethnic, religious minority (Indian- American U.S. Citizen) to … |
| 24A194 | Hector Acosta v. Texas | Texas | 2024-08-22 | Presumed Complete | capital-murder death-sentence equal-protection fourteenth-amendment jury-selection racial-bias | Question not identified. | |
| 24-5227 | James W. Johnson v. United States | Third Circuit | 2024-08-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process impartial-jury impartiality jury-selection peremptory-challenge racial-bias sixth-amendment | Whether a criminal defendant is denied his Due Process and Sixth Amendment right to an impartial jury when the trial court determines that a potential… |
| 23A1149 | James W. Johnson v. United States | Third Circuit | 2024-06-25 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure juror-impartiality jury-selection racial-bias voir-dire | Question not identified. | |
| 23-7617 | Andrew Nguyen v. AT&T | Fifth Circuit | 2024-06-04 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-rights discrimination due-process employment employment-discrimination equipment-allocation hotline-complaint performance-review racial-bias retaliation tool-access workplace-retaliation | The upfront access to order tools and materials for the jobs Why did Mr. Fulton and Puckett tried to block the upfront access to order tools and suppl… |
| 23-7457 | E. R. v. Colorado, In the Interest of S. M. and E. M., Children | Colorado | 2024-05-13 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | constitutional-standard due-process equal-protection judicial-bias parent-child-rights racial-bias racial-prejudice standard-of-review termination-of-parental-rights | Whether this Court's precedents, which apply an objective legal standard to determine whether there is an unconstitutional potential for judicial raci… |
| 23-5648 | Frank Nucera, Jr. v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-09-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | due-process equal-protection evidentiary-hearing juror-misconduct jury-deliberations new-trial new-trial-motion racial-bias third-circuit-court voir-dire | 1. Did the Third Circuit err by upholding the denial of Petitioner's motion for new trial or an evidentiary hearing based on juror affidavits which es… |
| 23-5346 | Marcrease Delance Farmer v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-08-11 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-violation counsel-of-record due-process fifth-amendment juror-challenge racial-bias racial-identity sixth-amendment voir-dire | 1. Is it a constitutional Fifth and Sixth Amendment violation when during voir dire and motivated by a single juror's racial identity, Counsel of Rec… |
| 22-7575 | Larry Edmond v. Tommy Williams, Warden | Tenth Circuit | 2023-05-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process impartial-jury ineffective-assistance jury-bias racial-bias racial-discrimination structural-error trial-court | 1. Whether district court trial abuse its discretion and violated the defendant's constitutional right to an impartial jury when it refused to grant a… |
| 22-7182 | Azizjon Rakhmatov v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-04-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-46c 2nd-circuit circuit-conflict criminal-procedure due-process en-banc en-banc-review inter-panel-conflict judicial-bias racial-bias sentencing | 1. Whether the unresolved conflict between the Second Circuit panels in this case, and the conflict among the circuits on whether 28 U.S.C. §46 can an… |
| 22-7136 | Terry Froman v. Ohio | Ohio | 2023-03-29 | Denied | IFP | 6th-amendment capital-punishment due-process impartial-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juror-selection jury-impartiality racial-bias right-to-counsel trial-procedure | Six members of Terry Froman's capital jury provided answers on their questionnaires that demonstrated that they harbored racial bias. None were meanin… |
| 22-823 | Alicia Thompson v. Janelle Henderson | Washington | 2023-03-01 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (7) | burden-of-proof due-process equal-protection evidence-standard implicit-bias jury-verdict prima-facie racial-bias | 1. Whether the Washington Supreme Court's novel standard addressing implicit bias violates the Due Process Clause—by prohibiting counsel from presenti… |
| 22-6703 | Earnest A. Davis v. Government Employees Insurance Company, et al. | California | 2023-02-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | ada-accommodation case-dismissal civil-proceedings court-procedure criminal-reporting due-process equal-protection judicial-ethics racial-bias | 1) Are judges in a trial court and justices in an appeals court and state supreme court in civil proceedings required to report direct evidence of cri… |
| 22-6662 | Wesley Ruiz v. Texas | Texas | 2023-01-31 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process equal-protection juror-misconduct jury-selection racial-bias sixth-amendment | Does Peria-Rodriguez apply to Petitioner's evidence that at least one juror relied on anti-Hispanic racial stereotypes and animus to find that he was … |
| 22-5947 | Kevin Johnson v. Missouri | Missouri | 2022-10-31 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure criminal-trial death-penalty eighth-amendment juror-misconduct juvenile-justice mental-health mental-impairment racial-bias | 1. In light of a court's duty to issue a remedy that "neutralize[s] the taint of a constitutional violation" while avoiding the grant of "a windfall t… |
| 22-5777 | In Re Adib Eddie Ramez Makdessi | 2022-10-06 | Dismissed | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-conviction due-process equal-protection evidence-tampering jury-instructions jury-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct racial-bias | 1-Attached transcripts prores that tral Judge & Prosecution acknowledged that the y u F Eq Pc aahFd Dis coudendRu Claiming it is not Extraordinary -.… | |
| 22-5163 | Diann Ramcharan v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2022-07-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection immigration immigration-fraud jury-selection race-discrimination racial-bias voir-dire | Is it an abuse of discretion for a district court, when there is a proper request by the accused, to refuse to conduct reasonable voir dire inquiry in… |
| 21-7658 | Mizell Campbell, Jr. v. The Florida Bar | Florida | 2022-04-19 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment disbarment due-process fair-and-impartial-tribunal judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct professional-conduct racial-bias racial-discrimination | Whether The Florida Supreme Court deprived an African-American lawyer of Due Process and a Fair and Impartial Tribunal under the 14th Amendment of the… |
| 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… |
| 21-7381 | Jessie D. Hoffman, Jr. v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2022-03-16 | Denied | Amici (1)IFP | capital-case criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process juror-misconduct jury-selection no-impeachment-rule peña-rodriguez racial-bias | Did the Louisiana Supreme Court err in failing to consider clear evidence of juror racial bias under Peña-Rodriguez in the extraordinary circumstances… |
| 21-7076 | Richard Maurival v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-02-08 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-trial eleventh-circuit evidentiary-inquiry juror-statements jury-deliberations peña-rodriguez-v-colorado racial-bias sixth-circuit | Where disclosure of jurors' statements in their deliberations shows racial bias that may have tainted the verdict in a criminal trial, must the distri… |
| 21-1050 | Frederick S. Koger, et al. v. Clark V. Richardson, Judge, et al. | Second Circuit | 2022-01-28 | Denied | Relisted (2) | civil-rights color-of-law due-process educational-neglect family-court homeschooling judicial-bias judicial-misconduct racial-bias | (1) Did Justice Clark V. Richardson, former judge of the Bronx County Family Court, violate our civil rights under color of law, by writing and publis… |
| 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. § … | |
| 21-6061 | John Rodney Johnson v. Donnie Ames, Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex | Fourth Circuit | 2021-10-22 | Denied | IFP | due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury prosecutorial-misconduct racial-bias sixth-amendment | Does a Prosecutor's conduct to interject race comments into a State trial as an appeal to a racial prejudice based on the fact the trial having the in… |
| 21-5767 | James Felton v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-09-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process implicit-bias jury-impartiality jury-selection racial-bias racial-prejudice sixth-amendment voir-dire | Does our society's evolving understanding of the impact of implicit bias on jury behavior justify overturning the "substantial circumstances" test set… |
| 21-444 | Andre Lee Thomas v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2021-09-22 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (22) | aedpa-deference capital-punishment fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel juror-bias racial-bias schizophrenia supreme-court-precedent voir-dire | Under this Court's clearly established precedent, was Petitioner Andre Thomas —an African American man who, during a schizophrenic episode, killed his… |
| 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… |
| 21-5347 | Damantae Graham v. Ohio | Ohio | 2021-08-11 | Denied | IFP | capital-punishment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection racial-bias racial-prejudice sixth-amendment voir-dire | This Court recently cautioned trial courts to be especially vigilant against "particularly noxious strain[s] of racial prejudice," Buck v. Davis, 137 … |
| 21-5262 | In Re Adib Eddie Ramez Makdessi | 2021-07-29 | Dismissed | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-suppression extraordinary-motion habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel racial-bias racial-discrimination | /- 771 e /cjJfr Federal Courts Jef rived tii5 Petitioner of his congressional right to Full round oF his initial Federal habeas review ly dismissing … | |
| 21-5050 | Kristopher Love v. Texas | Texas | 2021-07-09 | Denied | Relisted (12)IFP | court-of-criminal-appeals death-penalty due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment jury-selection racial-bias sixth-amendment | I. Whether Texas' Court of Criminal Appeals, the only court of last resort reviewing direct appeals in death penalty cases has decided an important fe… |
| 20-8409 | Brenda Ford White v. O. L. Matthews, et al. | Michigan | 2021-06-23 | Dismissed | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights court-discretion due-process fraud judicial-interpretation medical-malpractice racial-bias rico rico-violations standing vulnerable-citizens | 1. Must a court overlook a plaintiff's race in making a decision about her capacity and her right to defend her mother's cortisone death/ murder case … |
| 20-8355 | Jason Kyle Gee v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2021-06-22 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jackson-v-virginia jury-deliberations racial-bias standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence verdict-challenge | Question not identified. |
| 20-7967 | Nikolay Vladimirov Sloboda v. Mike Obenland, Superintendent, Monroe Correctional Complex | Ninth Circuit | 2021-05-11 | Denied | IFP | appeals constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process evidence jurisdiction racial-bias sentencing statutory-provisions writ | Question not identified. |
| 20-7865 | Terry Lee Froman v. Ohio | Ohio | 2021-04-27 | Denied | IFP | capital-punishment constitutional-duty death-penalty fair-trial jury-selection racial-bias structural-error voir-dire | 1) Does trial counsel have an obligation to conduct a meaningful and comprehensive voir dire as it relates to racial bias, explicit or implicit, of ju… |
| 20-6871 | Angnem Green v. New York | New York | 2021-01-13 | Denied | IFP | closing-argument constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fair-trial prosecutorial-misconduct racial-bias racial-discrimination | Petitioner an African-American man, was tried for the crime of Criminal Sale of a Controlled Substance, namely cocaine. During the prosecutor's closin… |
| 20-910 | Anthony M. Lee v. Heath Parshall | Seventh Circuit | 2021-01-08 | Denied | civil-rights due-process judicial-discretion jury jury-selection racial-bias section-1983 standing voir-dire | 1. Whether the district court's refusal to probe potential jurors for bias or prejudice was an abuse of discretion under Rule 47(a). 2. Whether the d… | |
| 20-877 | Trinell King v. Ricky Pridmore, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-12-31 | Denied | civil-rights clearly-established excessive-force hope-v-peltzer police-misconduct qualified-immunity racial-bias summary-judgment tolan-v-cotton | Respondents Ricky Pridmore, Corey Archer, and Andrew Hill are White police officers who treated Petitioner Trinell King, a young Black citizen, as a t… | |
| 20-6211 | Michael Anthony Robbins v. California | California | 2020-11-04 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | due-process investigation juror-bias jury-trial racial-bias sixth-amendment | This Petition presents the following related questions under the Sixth Amendment's jury trial guarantee: 1. What constitutes juror bias for purposes … |
| 20-5698 | Adrian Hernandez v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-09-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | due-process fair-trial federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection post-conviction procedural-default racial-bias standing state-court | A. Is a petitioner deried a fair trial when a juror B Is counsel ineffective if he does not raise the fact that A Petitioner was dheried a fair trail… |
| 20-5605 | In Re Eric Wallace Koehl | 2020-09-08 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 6th-amendment civil-rights compulsory-process criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel public-trial racial-bias sixth-amendment | # 1.2) Does Not A CRIMiNAl defend any have A Const TvTien AL RIGHT 9 A Poblic RAR VRAL UNDER GTR AMEND MONT To THe Wwiten STaTes Constitvhen % # Q) a… | |
| 20-5398 | Lezmond Charles Mitchell v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-08-18 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights death-penalty due-process extraordinary-circumstance juror-interviews jury-selection pena-rodriguez racial-bias rule-60b | In Peña-Rodriguez v. Colorado, 137 S. Ct. 855 (2017), this Court held, for the first time, that no-impeachment rules may not bar consideration of juro… |
| 20-5397 | Wilbert Romon Banks v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2020-08-18 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan plea-bargaining racial-bias racial-discrimination trevino-v-thaler trial-counsel venue-change | WAS BANKS CLAIM OF INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL, RAISED FOR THE FIRST TIME DURING HIS FEDERAL HABEAS CORPUS PETITION, A SUBSTANTIAL CLAIM WITHIN … |
| 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… |
| 20-5084 | Priscilla Ann Ellis v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-07-16 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 5th-amendment 6th-amendment brady-claim civil-rights due-process ineffective-counsel judicial-prejudice racial-bias sentencing sixth-amendment | Was Ellis Prejudicied when NONE of her concerns were considered in her Initial Appeal 17-12737? Was Ellis Prejudiced per 6th Amendment when Attorney … |
| 19-8800 | Justice Jerrell Knight v. Alabama | Alabama | 2020-06-25 | Denied | IFP | capital-punishment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jury-prejudice prejudicial-evidence racial-bias sentencing | In a capital case in which the defendant's jury observes him in shackles and jail clothing, and multiple members of the jury expressed the belief that… |
| 19-8601 | William Cornell Walker v. Minnesota | Minnesota | 2020-06-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | age-discrimination civil-rights due-process equal-protection exculpatory-evidence false-testimony jury jury-composition peer-selection police-misconduct racial-bias | 1. Whether jurors twice your age can be considered your peers, the jury of 12 were not my peers except for one or two 11 has nothing to do with being … |
| 19-1218 | Marcus Lee Robinson v. Colorado | Colorado | 2020-04-16 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial jury-bias jury-trial plain-error prosecutor-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct racial-bias racial-discrimination racial-prejudice | Petitioner is an African-American man who was tried for sexually assaulting a white woman. During the prosecutor's opening statement, she gratuitously… |
| 19-8271 | Loren J. Larson, Jr. v. Alaska | Alaska | 2020-04-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | equal-protection impartial-jury juror-bias jury-trial jury-trial-right no-impeachment-rule racial-bias sixth-amendment | All states and the federal government have one version or another of an evidence rule that generally prohibits the introduction of juror testimony reg… |
| 19-7563 | Terry Glynn Speed v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2020-02-06 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus new-trial perjury racial-bias trial-procedure | Question one. On remand claim by Petitioner under Petitioner v. for reasons of Potential racial Prejudice (D) Pled with Consisted Perjured x and confl… |
| 19-7503 | Michael Bernard Bell v. Florida | Florida | 2020-01-31 | Denied | IFP | buck-v-davis constitutional-right constitutional-rights criminal-trial ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel racial-animus racial-bias retroactive-application strickland-standard strickland-v-washington | Does the decision in Buck v. Davis, 137 S.Ct. 759 (2017), which rejected the improper injection of racial animus, bias, or prejudice into a criminal t… |
| 19-7395 | Jean Crump v. United States, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-01-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection false-arrest grand-jury-testimony ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel judicial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct racial-bias racial-discrimination | 1. This is my second trial. At least five federal attorneys advised my new new attorney Dana Cephas, that Judge William Keller was a racist and he esp… |
| 19-7001 | Haji Bagcho, aka Haji Bagh Chagul, aka Haji Bagchagul v. United States | District of Columbia | 2019-12-18 | Denied | IFP | acquittal criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment jury-selection jury-selection-and-service-act racial-bias racial-discrimination sixth-amendment | I. Whether pursuant to the Jury Selection and Service Act a criminal defendant who observes a racially skewed venire can be denied time to inspect jur… |
| 19-6907 | Robert Hendricks v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-12-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-error constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-error criminal-trial due-process equal-protection evidence evidence-admission harmless-error racial-bias structural-error | The Court of Appeals agreed that the District Court erred when at petitioner's trial for credit union robbery it permitted over objection one of the c… |
| 19-6194 | William Edward Sneed v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. | Third Circuit | 2019-10-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky certificate-of-appealability equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intentional-discrimination juror-discrimination racial-bias racial-discrimination third-circuit-court-of-appeals | In light of the post-conviction court's finding of intentional discrimination—a finding that has not been challenged by any reviewing court—did the Th… |
| 19-5878 | Darries Leon Jackson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-09-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-reasonableness criminal-justice criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection grand-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel racial-bias racial-discrimination sentencing sentencing-guidelines | 1. Whether sentences imposed upon Petitioner Constitutionally Unreasonable & greater than necessary to satisfy the ends of Justice? 2. Whether Petiti… |
| 19-5535 | Julius Omar Robinson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-12 | Denied | IFP | capital-indictment circuit-split death-penalty death-penalty-cases due-process juror-interview juror-interviews post-conviction-relief post-verdict racial-bias structural-error | 1. Whether district courts may validly prohibit death-sentenced inmates from interviewing their trial jurors post-verdict concerning racial bias durin… |
| 19-162 | Michael Richards v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2019-08-05 | Denied | Response Waived | collateral-attack collateral-review criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-interpretation pena-rodriguez pena-rodriguez-v-colorado racial-bias retroactivity supreme-court-precedent | Should this Court's decision in Pena-Rodriquez v. Colorado, 187 S. Ct. 855 (2017) be applied retroactively to Petitioner's collateral attack? |
| 19-5171 | Victor Hugo Saldano v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2019-07-16 | Denied | Amici (3)IFP | biased-jury buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim death-penalty due-process future-dangerousness mental-competency racial-bias vagueness vagueness-doctrine | At M r. Sal daño's first death penalty trial, in 1996, a n expert for th e State of Texas testified that Mr. Sa ldaño wa s more likely to present a fu… |
| 18-9710 | Lee Turner, Jr. v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2019-06-18 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky civil-rights comparative-juror-analysis discrimination due-process equal-protection johnson-v-california jury-selection prima-facie-case prima-facie-discrimination prosecutorial-strikes racial-bias racial-discrimination standard-of-proof | 1. Whether "mere statistics" are sufficient to demonstrate a prima facie case of discrimination under Batson v. Kentucky, 475 U.S. 79 (1986) and Johns… |
| 18-9665 | Alejandro Hernandez-Delgado v. California | California | 2019-06-13 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-procedure due-process evidence-code evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment juror-bias juror-misconduct jury-deliberations racial-bias racial-stereotypes sixth-amendment | What fact-finding procedures are required by the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments when a defendant makes a threshold showing that a juror relied on rac… |
| 18-9652 | Cedric McDonald v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-06-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jury-selection racial-bias sixth-amendment trial-counsel voir-dire | WHETHER TRIAL COUNSEL RENDERED INEFFECTIVE COUNSEL IN FAILING TO OBJECT TO DISTRICT COURT'S USE OF A VIDEO IN VOIR DIRE, WHICH WAS DESINGED TO GET JUR… |
| 18-9242 | Joel Hayden v. Maine | Maine | 2019-05-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | batson-challenge constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection ethnicity fourteenth-amendment jury-selection jury-selection-process language-barrier race-discrimination racial-bias racial-discrimination voir-dire | "WHEN A PARTY MOVES TO STRIKE A PROSPECTIVE JUROR FOR CAUSE BECAUSE OF A 'LANGUAGE BARRIER' WHAT SORT OF RECORD MUST THE COURT MAKE IN ORDER TO ENSURE… |
| 18-8678 | Mizell Campbell, Jr. v. The Florida Bar | Florida | 2019-04-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment civil-rights disbarment disciplinary-proceedings due-process fair-and-impartial-tribunal fair-trial fair-tribunal judicial-bias judicial-misconduct marshall-v-jerrico racial-bias racial-discrimination | Whether an African-American lawyer facing disciplinary proceedings was deprived of his rights to Due Process and a Fair and Impartial Tribunal under t… |
| 18-1148 | Kimberly Franett-Fergus v. Omak School District 19, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-05 | Denied | burden-of-proof circumstantial-evidence civil-rights diversity diversity-considerations employment employment-discrimination hiring-practices national-origin protected-classes race racial-bias religion summary-judgment | 1. Whether a plaintiff may rely on ethnically distinct names in proving circumstantial evidence of how an employer regards the job candidates' race, r… | |
| 18-8275 | Brian Sawyers v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection implicit-bias jury-instruction jury-instructions jury-selection racial-bias racial-discrimination racial-prejudice sixth-amendment voir-dire | Whether the federal district court should give an implicit bias jury instruction upon request where other courts have recognized that implicit bias is… |
| 18-7809 | James Were v. Ohio | Ohio | 2019-02-07 | Denied | IFP | buck-v-davis competency-hearing death-penalty death-penalty-eligibility eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intellectual-disability iq-scores racial-bias | 1. Did the Supreme Court of Ohio violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments when it refused to reopen Petitioner's direct appeal to consider evidenc… |
| 18-7054 | Brenda Ford White v. O. L. Matthews, et al. | Michigan | 2018-12-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights court-discretion disciplinary-records due-process equal-protection medical-malpractice race racial-bias racial-discrimination rico rico-claims standing vulnerable-citizens | Must a court overlook a plaintiff's race in making a decision about her capacity and her right to defend her mother's cortisone death/ murder case aga… |
| 18-6819 | Keith Tharpe v. Benjamin Ford, Warden | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-11-26 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (2)IFP | certificate-of-appealability collateral-review death-penalty due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus juror-misconduct jury-selection pena-rodriguez racial-bias racial-bias-in-jury retroactivity | 1. Does Pena-Rodriguez apply retroactively to cases on collateral review? 2. The Eleventh Circuit first denied a certificate of appealability ("COA")… |
| 18-6775 | Edward Joseph Kehoe v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-11-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment criminal-procedure fourth-amendment harmless-error impartial-judge judicial-error racial-bias racial-discrimination reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure structural-error warrantless-search | At the suppression hearing in this federal criminal case, the district court explicitly relied on Petitioner's race to conclude that there was reasona… |
| 18-6727 | John C. Stojetz v. Tim Shoop, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2018-11-19 | Denied | IFP | brady-violation capital-punishment due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-records mitigation prosecutorial-misconduct ptsd racial-bias | I. Has the Constitutional right to due process of law been violated where a prosecutor withholds prison medical records that substantiate a capital de… |
| 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? |
| 18-219 | Starsha M. Sewell v. Fidelity National Financial, Inc. | Fourth Circuit | 2018-08-20 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights civil-rights-deprivation due-process economic-espionage executive-order-violation executive-orders fraud insurance-fraud judicial-misconduct mortgage-fraud ponzi-scheme racial-bias whistle-blower-reprisal whistleblower whistleblower-retaliation | Whether Judge Grimm deprived the Appellant of leave to re-open a case to engage in 18 U.S.C. § 1519 Sarbanes Oxley Concealment of his use of the prest… |
| 18-5218 | Allen Robertson, Jr. v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2018-07-12 | Denied | IFP | atkins-v-virginia criminal-behavior death-penalty eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-cruel-and-unusual-punishment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability jury-misconduct moore-v-texas racial-bias sixth-amendment | I. Whether it violates the Eighth Amendment and this Court's decisions in Moore v. Texas, 137 S. Ct 1039 (2017), Hall v. Florida, 134 S. Ct. 1986 (201… |
| 18-5118 | Shane K. Floyd v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-07-05 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-fairness jury-deliberations jury-selection presumption-of-innocence racial-bias sixth-amendment strickland-standard | Implicit bias threatens the very foundation of the criminal justice system. Wasn't the judicial system built on fairness; the right to a fair trial; t… |
| 24A723 | Marion Bowman, Jr. v. Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. | South Carolina | Denied | death-penalty ineffective-assistance racial-bias sixth-amendment strickland-standard trial-counsel | Question not identified. |