racial-prejudice
9 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-460 | Corey Miller v. Tim Hooper, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2024-10-23 | Denied | Response Waived | buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability court-of-appeals life-without-parole racial-prejudice supervisory-power | Whether the Court of Appeals' repeated misapplication of the standard for issuing a certificate of appealability warrants another exercise of this Cou… |
| 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… |
| 22-6728 | John Lezell Balentine v. Texas | Texas | 2023-02-08 | Denied | IFP | given its interweaving with federal law -abuse-of-writ -federal-law -habeas-corpus -post-conviction-relief -state-law-ground #NAME? abuse-of-the-writ capital-case due-process federal-law juror-misconduct racial-prejudice | 1. Whether the CCA's otherwise unexplained ruling that abuse of the writ under Article 11.071, § 5, precluded post-conviction relief is an adequate an… |
| 22-5149 | Rajesh Ramcharan v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2022-07-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process immigration immigration-fraud marriage-fraud racial-prejudice rosales-loper voir-dire | Rajesh Ramcharan is Black. He was charged with immigration and marriage fraud related offenses. Both immigration and marriage are issues with long his… |
| 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… |
| 21-5347 | 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 … |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 18-7658 | Julius Darius Jones v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2019-01-30 | Denied | IFP | capital-punishment constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourteenth-amendment juror-bias post-conviction post-conviction-review racial-prejudice sixth-amendment | 1. Whether newly-discovered evidence establishes that racial prejudice influenced the decision of at least one juror to convict Mr. Jones and sentence… |