unanimity

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-253 Avery Curry Archuleta, aka Avery Archuleta v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-09-06 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure jury-instruction legal-standard self-defense trial-court unanimity The Petitioner, Avery Curry Archuleta, asks this Court to clarify that trial courts instruct juries that any decision on a self-defense must be unanim…
23-5094 Adam Jason Poitra v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-sexual-abuse criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions sexual-abuse sixth-amendment unanimity unanimity-instruction When the government introduces evidence of multiple alleged instances of sexual abuse to prove a single count of aggravated sexual abuse in violation …
22-348 Floyd Tayler v. Washington Washington 2022-10-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) aggravating-factors criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing domestic-violence jury-instruction jury-instructions pattern-aggravator reasonable-doubt statutory-interpretation unanimity Must the jury, in deciding whether a defendant has committed the domestic violence pattern aggravator, RCW 9.94A.535 (3) (h) (i), be instructed that t…
20-419 Stephen Robert Deck v. California California 2020-10-01 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment attempt attempt-offense custodial-arrest due-process jury-instructions jury-unanimity right-to-counsel search-warrant temporal-element unanimity 1. Whether the temporal direct step element of an attempt offense may be changed by jury instructions to occur on the charged "on or about" dates, or …
20-5058 Randy Estevez v. United States Second Circuit 2020-07-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process felony-enhancement firearm-possession jury-instructions jury-unanimity sentencing sentencing-reasonableness u-s-sentencing-guidelines unanimity 1. Whether the district court erred in not instructing the jury that it should be unanimous on the date and location of his alleged possession of the …
19-6155 Deounte Ussury v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law due-process jury-instructions racketeering statutory-interpretation unanimity verdict-form violent-crimes I. Whether conviction under the Violent Crimes in Aid of Racketeering statute § 18 U.S.C. 1959(a), also known as VICAR, requires a special verdict for…
18-9806 Karlynn Romeo Tones, Donta Lyvoid Blackmon, and Arvin Terrill Carmen v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-conspiracy criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment indictment-specificity jury-instructions jury-unanimity trial-evidence unanimity Do federal criminal defendants have a constitutional right to a specific unanimity instruction requiring the jury to unanimously define the duration a…