Petitions to watch | Conference of December 1

Issue:Whether, when the Alabama Supreme Court failed to apply the reasoning and analysis mandated by the Supreme Court’s decision inFoster v. Chatman, the U.S. Supreme Court should intervene to enforce its precedents followingBatson v. Kentucky, which prohibit discrimination in jury selection on the basis of race or gender.

Issue:Whether orders denying state-action immunity to public entities are immediately appealable under the collateral-order doctrine.

Issue:WhetherRichardson v. United Statesprecludes a double jeopardy appeal based on evidentiary insufficiency when the jury returns a guilty verdict that is set aside for a new trial.

Issue:Whether Missouri’s second-degree burglary statute is divisible into two offenses with separate elements for the purpose of analyzing whether a conviction under that statute qualifies as a conviction for a violent felony as defined in the Armed Career Criminal Act of 1984, 18 U.S.C. 924(e)(2)(B)(ii).

Issues:(1) Whether reasonable jurists could disagree with the district court’s rejection of the petitioner’s Rule 60(b) motion, and, accordingly, whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit erred in denying a certificate of appealability; (2) whether, given the petitioner’s credible evidence that a juror voted for the death penalty because the petitioner is a nigger, the lower court erred in ruling that he failed to make a substantial showing of the of the denial of a constitutional right under 28 U.S.C. 2253(c)(2); and (3) whetherPena-Rodriguez v. Coloradocreated a new constitutional claim, and, if not, whether the lower courts erred in denying the petitioner’s motion for relief from judgment under Rule 60(b)(6).