No. 24-5530

Manuel Larry Jackson v. United States

Lower Court: Ninth Circuit
Docketed: 2024-09-12
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: criminal-procedure due-process evidence-preclusion fifth-amendment percipient-witness sixth-amendment
Latest Conference: 2024-10-11
Question Presented (from Petition)

Do the Fifth and Sixth Amendments guarantee a defendant the right to call a percipient witness to nearly the entirety of the Government's evidence presented in the prosecution's case-in-chief, or may a district court preclude such percipient witness testimony as irrelevant?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Do the Fifth and Sixth Amendments guarantee a defendant the right to call a percipient witness to nearly the entirety of the Government's evidence presented in the prosecution's case-in-chief, or may a district court preclude such percipient witness testimony as irrelevant?

Docket Entries

2024-10-15
Petition DENIED.
2024-09-19
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/11/2024.
2024-09-17
Waiver of right of respondent United States of America to respond filed.
2024-09-09
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due October 15, 2024)

Attorneys

Manny Jackson
Ethan Atticus BaloghBalogh & Co. APC, Petitioner
United States of America
Elizabeth B. PrelogarSolicitor General, Respondent