No. 20-129

Muhanad Elfatih M. A. Badawi v. United States

Lower Court: Ninth Circuit
Docketed: 2020-08-07
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Response Waived
Tags: criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial federal-rules-of-evidence foreign-terrorist-organization material-support old-chief old-chief-precedent rule-403 terrorism-evidence
Latest Conference: 2020-09-29
Question Presented (from Petition)

Whether graphic evidence of terrorism, admitted without the balancing test required by Fed. R. Evid. 403 and Old Chief v. United States, 519 U.S. 172, 180 (1997), should have been excluded at Petitioner's trial for providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether graphic evidence of terrorism, admitted without the balancing test required by Fed. R. Evid. 403 and Old Chief v. United States, 519 U.S. 172, 180 (1997), should have been excluded at Petitioner's trial for providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization

Docket Entries

2020-10-05
Petition DENIED.
2020-08-19
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/29/2020.
2020-08-12
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2020-07-31
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 8, 2020)

Attorneys

Muhanad Badawi
Timothy Allen ScottScott Trial Lawyers, APC, Petitioner
United States
Jeffrey B. WallActing Solicitor General, Respondent