Cross-Examination
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25A705 | Charles Albert Massey v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Fourth Circuit | 2025-12-17 | Application | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination hearsay-evidence preliminary-hearing sixth-amendment | Question not identified. | |
| 25-6208 | Matthew Peckham v. Rhode Island | Rhode Island | 2025-11-24 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP | bias-evidence cross-examination fourteenth-amendment juvenile-records sixth-amendment witness-impeachment | 1. Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments permit a state court to bar all cross-examination of a key prosecution witness concerning her own juven… |
| 25-5969 | James Logan Diez v. Texas | Texas | 2025-10-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence appellate-review cross-examination due-process judicial-discretion transcript-error | 1] Did the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals abuse its discretion when it refused Review after Petitioner discovered approx. 20-25 min. of Cross-Examina… |
| 25-336 | Elsie Franklin v. Kentucky | Kentucky | 2025-09-23 | Denied | adequate-opportunity confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination evidence-standard prior-testimony | In Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36 (2004), this Court held that, under the Confrontation Clause, an unavailable witness's prior testimony "is admi… | |
| 25-5356 | Oscar Oropeza v. Hector Rios, Warden, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2025-08-14 | Denied | IFP | compulsory-process constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process witness-testimony | Question not identified. |
| 25-5275 | Kayla Williams v. Pennsylvania State University, et al. | Third Circuit | 2025-08-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment constitutional-rights cross-examination due-process forfeiture-doctrine judicial-recusal | 1. ) Does the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment require public universities to allow accused students a meaningful opportunity to cross examine… |
| 25-5173 | Douglas Dean Welsh v. Bobbi Salamon, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. | Third Circuit | 2025-07-22 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-violation cross-examination due-process ineffective-assistance search-warrant | A. DID THE DISTRICT COURT ERROR IN RULING THAT PETITIONER'S FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS, AND SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO CONFRONTATION WAS… |
| 24-1265 | Glenn E. Diaz v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-06-12 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-procedure cross-examination judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent witness-bias | 1. Whether a district court can completely bar defense counsel from cross-examining a key government witness on an issue probative of bias and motive.… |
| 24-7139 | David Little v. Georgia | Georgia | 2025-05-06 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process hearsay sixth-amendment | A Whether the Trial Court violated Sixth Amendment Right to Confrontation by Admitting the deceased Neg wiehad" diary— Which Contained testimonial Sta… |
| 24-7111 | Jeffrey G. Hutchinson v. Florida | Florida | 2025-05-01 | Denied | IFP | competency-to-be-executed cross-examination due-process ford-v-wainwright panetti-v-quarterman procedural-fairness | In Ford v. Wainwright , Justice Powell's controlling holding instructed that upon a substantial threshold showing of insanity, due process entitles a … |
| 24-6849 | Terrance Deandre Ellison v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-03-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cross-examination evidentiary-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay-evidence recent-fabrication witness-credibility | Whether Federal Rule of Evidence 801(d)(1)(B)(i) permits introduction of hearsay purportedly to rebut a charge of recent fabrication made during cross… |
| 24-6626 | Stanford Wall v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-02-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-law criminal-procedure cross-examination evidence-law witness-credibility | Whether, consistent with the Confrontation Clause, courts must apply a presumption favoring cross-examination of a government witness's general charac… |
| 24-746 | John Doe v. University of Iowa, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2025-01-14 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (2) | cross-examination due-process mixed-motive procedural-fairness sex-discrimination title-ix | A university decision-maker admitted using 'sex' as one of the three factors in evaluating an accused student's credibility, resulting in expulsion. T… |
| 24-6241 | Justin Michael Buehler v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-01-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure cross-examination evidence-limitation informant-testimony judicial-discretion witness-credibility | Did the District Court abuse it's discretion by limiting the defendant's cross examination of the key witness and informant's criminal history? |
| 24-5913 | Lili Zhang Tydingco v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-11-05 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | alien-harboring-act confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-prosecution cross-examination testimonial-statements | 1. Whether translated out-of-court testimonial statements may be admitted by the Government as evidence against a defendant without providing the defe… |
| 24-330 | Cid C. Franklin v. New York | New York | 2024-09-24 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9) | bail-report confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination sixth-amendment testimonial-statements | 1. Whether the Sixth Amendment's Confrontation Clause applies to out-of-court statements admitted as evidence against criminal defendants if, and only… |
| 24A193 | Eloy Heraclio Alcala v. Texas | Texas | 2024-08-22 | Presumed Complete | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination exclusionary-rule motion-to-suppress sixth-amendment | Question not identified. | |
| 24A172 | Evan Wald v. New York | New York | 2024-08-13 | Presumed Complete | autopsy-report confrontation-clause criminal-evidence cross-examination sixth-amendment testimonial-hearsay | Whether an autopsy report created in conjunction with a homicide investigation and finding the cause of death to be a homicide is "testimonial" under … | |
| 24-5216 | Ricky Mendoza v. William Sullivan, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2024-08-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process habeas-corpus habeas-relief harmless-error sixth-amendment witness-testimony | Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in denying habeas relief on petitioner's claim that the state trial court deprived him of his Sixth Amendment right to… |
| 24-5111 | Amadi Sosa v. Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 2024-07-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof confrontation-clause constructive-malice cross-examination due-process felony-murder perjury-protocol sixth-amendment winship-fact | 1. In a joint trial on a joint venture murder charge, the trial judge implemented a state protocol that enabled one co-defendant to give perjured test… |
| 24-36 | Spencer Freeman Smith v. State Bar of California | California | 2024-07-15 | Denied | Response Waived | attorney-suspension civil-rights constitutional-rights cross-examination due-process ex-parte-statements hearing-delay notice state-bar-discipline whistleblower | Whether it is unconstitutional under the Due Process Clause for the State Bar of California to place an attorney on suspension without a hearing for f… |
| 24-5029 | Jurgen Marku v. Florida | Florida | 2024-07-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | Bruton-v-United-States Codefendant confrontation-clause criminal-prosecution Cross-Examination Due-Process felony-murder fourteenth-amendment Guilty-Plea sixth-amendment | Whether it is a violation of a criminal defendant's Confrontation Clause and Due Process Clause rights to allow the prosecution to inform the jury tha… |
| 23-1368 | Luis S. Arana, aka Luis S. Arana Santiago v. Luis Tapia Maldonado, et al. | Puerto Rico | 2024-07-02 | Denied | Relisted (2) | administrative-hearing administrative-procedure cross-examination due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment notice-requirement public-employment tenure-rights | In the circumstances described in the first paragraph, was the due process violated? 2. In the circumstances described in the second paragraph, was t… |
| 23-7717 | Ledra A. Craig v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-06-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | compulsory-process confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rights cross-examination due-process right-to-counsel right-to-cross-examine | 1. Can a Defendawts Conwetion be Sustained and impermissiby Prediedted on a defendants Uncorroborated statements ta Laterragition oF Ficers. * oes th… |
| 23-7237 | William Bruce Justice v. South Carolina | South Carolina | 2024-04-17 | Denied | IFP | cross-examination due-process indigent-rights mootness parole-revocation post-conviction-relief procedural-fairness right-to-be-heard state-procedure witness-confrontation | 1. Does South Carolina's parole revocation scheme comply with this Court's constitutional framework, where—in every case—indigent inmates are deprived… |
| 23-7078 | Jeffery Wayne Taylor v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-03-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure criminal-trial cross-examination due-process evidence first-step-act out-of-court-statements sixth-amendment | I. IS IT A VIOLATION OF THE CONFRONTATION CLAUSE WHEN EXERCISING OUT'S RIGHT TO TRIAL, THAT AN OUT-OF-COURT STATEMENT CONNECTING THE DEFENDANT DIRECTL… |
| 23-6711 | Ronnie Collins, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-02-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence harmful-error harmless-error witness-testimony | Whether the limits placed on Collins's right to cross-examine the central witness against him constituted harmful error. |
| 23-6618 | Mabior M. Mabior v. Nebraska | Nebraska | 2024-01-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review confrontation-clause cross-examination hearsay hearsay-exception ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment testimonial-statement testimonial-statements | 1) Is a defendant's right to confrontation under the Sixth Amendment violated when testimonial statements are admitted for the truth of the matters as… |
| 23-6475 | Darrius Decnan Redd v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-01-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause credibility cross-examination due-process evidence-exclusion fair-trial prosecutorial-misconduct sex-trafficking | i. In this case alleging sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion, whether the district court violated the Defendant's Due Process and Confrontati… |
| 23-6474 | Courtney Rose Desjarlais v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-01-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause cross-examination due-process hearsay hearsay-evidence sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | I. Under the Sixth Amendment of the United States Constitution, a defendant in a criminal case has the right to confront adverse witnesses against her… |
| 23-6420 | Orlando S. Burgos v. Martin Gamboa, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2024-01-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bias confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination habeas-corpus harmless-error motive-to-lie sole-evidence witness-bias | Petitioner Orlando Burgos was deprived of his Confrontation Clause right to cross-examine his accuser—the key prosecution witness—that he received a b… |
| 23-6307 | Veronica McCluskey v. William Hendricks, et al. | California | 2023-12-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure cross-examination due-process fair-hearing jury-trial legal-conduct reversible-error standing trial-court witness-testimony | 1. The Court Should Grant Review To Clarify Whether The Trial Court Committed Reversible Error In Not Granting Respondent A Jury Trial In The First In… |
| 23-464 | Matthew Boermeester v. Ainsley Carry, et al. | California | 2023-11-02 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | confrontation cross-examination due-process educational-discipline fair-process student-rights title-ix witness-credibility | Whether when an educational institution that is a recipient of Federal funds seeks to impose a lengthy suspension or expulsion on a student for allege… |
| 23-5927 | Katerin Martinez-Alberto v. United States | First Circuit | 2023-10-31 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-procedure cross-examination defendant-rights due-process evidence jury-instructions plain-error self-incrimination testimonial-evidence testimony | 1. Does display of a defendant's body part (a foot) to the jury constitute testimony that subjects the defendant to cross-examination? 2. In a multi-… |
| 23-5454 | Moses Crowe v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-08-25 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause confrontation-right criminal-procedure cross-examination drug-abuse due-process intoxication jury-unanimity methamphetamine witness-credibility | 1. Whether Petitioner's constitutional right to confrontation was violated when, during his criminal jury trial, the district court restricted cross e… |
| 23-5427 | Ranson Long Pumpkin v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-08-24 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause credibility credibility-evidence criminal-procedure cross-examination drug-usage drug-use evidence sixth-amendment | Whether Long Pumpkiw's right to confrontation was denied when the district court ruled that he could not cross-examine two important eye-witnesses "in… |
| 22-7626 | Tynan Anthony Checchi v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-05-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cross-examination fifth-amendment miranda-v-arizona self-incrimination sentencing unsworn-allocution | 1) Was Mr. Checchi's Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination violated when a district court cross-examined him during his unsworn allocution … |
| 22-7539 | Stacy Gallman v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-05-12 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | court-proceedings criminal-procedure cross-examination evidence evidence-ruling jury-selection public-trial sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth Amendment's public trial guarantee extends to proceedings after a jury has been seated in which the court rules on challenged eviden… |
| 22-1068 | Gary Paul Kirkman v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2023-05-04 | Denied | certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process melendez-diaz-v-massachusetts sane-records sixth-amendment | Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in denying Gary Paul Kirkman's request for a certificate of appealability (COA) when it concluded that he had not made… | |
| 22-1002 | Austin Van Overdam v. Texas A&M University, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-04-14 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | cross-examination due-process pleading-standard sex-discrimination sexual-assault title-ix | This case presents two circuit splits: one involving a public university's obligation to balance the due process rights of a student accused of sexual… |
| 22-7222 | Ray Dansby v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction | Eighth Circuit | 2023-04-05 | Denied | IFP | bias confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process informant jailhouse-informant witness-impeachment | To secure Ray Dansby's conviction and death sentence, the State relied heavily on the testimony of a jailhouse informant to whom Dansby purportedly co… |
| 22-7174 | James R. Householder, Jr. v. Michael Zaken, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Greene, et al. | Third Circuit | 2023-04-03 | Denied | IFP | cross-examination due-process Fair-trial Fourteenth-Amendment Impeachment Inconsistent-testimony ineffective-assistance Ineffective-counsel Sixth-Amendment witness-testimony | 1. Was I deprived of my (14th) Fourteenth Amendment of due process of a fair trial, when I pleaded with my trial attorney and the Judge Meagan Bilik-D… |
| 22-7137 | Eric Deangelo Griggs v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-03-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burrage-v-united-states criminal-conviction cross-examination drug-distribution due-process heroin-distribution jury-instruction perjured-testimony strict-liability | I. Whether a person can be convicted for distribution of heroin causing death using a jury instruction that makes the offense a strict liability crime… |
| 22-855 | Keith Raniere v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-03-08 | Denied | Response Waived | cross-examination due-process harmlessness harmlessness-standard judicial-intervention jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment witness-testimony | Because it impacts upon the very structure of the trial, should a finding of absolute harmlessness, rather than harmlessness beyond a reasonable doubt… |
| 22-844 | Hamid Akhavan and Ruben Weigand v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-03-06 | Denied | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination exceptional-circumstances remote-testimony sixth-amendment trial-procedure | Whether the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment is violated by denying a criminal defendant the right to cross-examine a key prosecution witne… | |
| 22-6885 | Juan Martinez Pedraza v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-02-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | which provides that the government has a duty to cross-examination due-process false-testimony fifth-amendment government-witness napue-v-illinois perjury prosecutorial-misconduct | Juan Martinez Pedraza was convicted on the strength of trial testimony by a co-defendant who entered into a written cooperation agreement with the gov… |
| 22-763 | Ganiyu Ayinla Jaiyeola v. Toyota Motor Corporation, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2023-02-14 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure clear-and-convincing-evidence cross-examination due-process evidence fraud-on-the-court judicial-procedure rule-of-law sanctions | Whether the Sixth Circuit panel's decision to affirm the District Court decision that was based on the "application of the wrong legal test" constitut… |
| 22-6465 | Jess Richard Smith v. Washington | Washington | 2023-01-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process federal-law jurisdiction post-conviction state-court stay witness-testimony | AjW A Uer -xUe. csAA^- c<pop4" -£ L^u3 uMzr -\Ue~ Ao<2__ ^roeeSLS ' Clause- c& AUg- LaA-VA S\a\-<^s C^ l\sVA o-VA( s-i\ as V° l-5 AAAs r0 (^por-WA--… |
| 22-6356 | Tyler Nees v. Oregon | Oregon | 2022-12-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause cross-examination due-process evidence federal-review habeas-corpus hearsay independent-state-ground procedural-default sixth-amendment state-court | Question not identified. |
| 22-515 | Herbert Traver v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2022-12-05 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | 14th-amendment 5th-amendment amendment-violation constitutional-rights cross-examination due-process fair-trial prosecutorial-misconduct | Did the prosecutor in the trial before the lower court engage in intentional misconduct by employing a known falsehood when questioning the Petitioner… |
| 22-6155 | Ryan McGuire v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-11-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation confrontation-clause criminal-trial cross-examination due-process fair-trial impeachment impeachment-evidence law-enforcement | 1. Does a trial court's ruling excluding evidence at trial violate a criminal defendant's right to due process, including the rights to confront and e… |
| 22-450 | Gregory Shields, Sr. v. Kentucky | Kentucky | 2022-11-15 | Denied | Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | confrontation-clause constitutional-standard crawford-v-washington cross-examination due-process preliminary-hearing state-court-division state-court-split witness-testimony | When, if ever, does a preliminary hearing provide an "adequate opportunity" for cross-examination under the Confrontation Clause? |
| 22-441 | Rony Galicia v. Maryland | Maryland | 2022-11-10 | Denied | Response Waived | abuse-of-discretion accomplice-confession appellate-review confrontation-clause cross-examination double-murder sixth-amendment standard-of-review | This case presents the following questions: 1. Whether the Sixth Amendment is violated by a trial court's denial of cross-examination into an accompl… |
| 22-5997 | Tarence Kirkland v. New York | New York | 2022-11-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing criminal-verdict cross-examination due-process evidence fair-trial identification legal-sufficiency second-degree-offense weight-of-evidence | 1. (Louv'V sP^eVna\ decision on Kocin(|ue'2_C.Xcie 'rv\-\^icMvorv) ArA SancAoVS. I (oSe c£pnoc Cr\'or ve5 > arA &c,\s on. CroSS-exannr n<3'bork) 9veso… |
| 22-421 | D. A.. v. Portage County, Wisconsin | Wisconsin | 2022-11-04 | Denied | Response Waived | 14th-amendment 6th-amendment children-in-need-of-protection civil-rights cross-examination due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment standing witness-testimony | Whether a natural father is entitled to basic Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment Due Process during Wisconsin Children in Need of Protection or Services p… |
| 22-5520 | Anthony Sims, Jr. v. New Jersey | New Jersey | 2022-09-07 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause criminal-trial cross-examination hearsay hearsay-statement memory-loss pre-trial-hearing sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence | The Confrontation Clause bars testimonial hearsay when the defendant has not had the opportunity for cross-examination. At Mr. Sims' trial for attempt… |
| 22-5469 | Jeffrey Beard, II v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-08-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination hearsay hearsay-evidence obstruction-of-justice sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | The Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution requires that the accused "shall enjoy the right ... to be confronted with the witnesses against him." Th… |
| 22-5471 | Tremain Lamar Braxton, Timothy Roy Mason, and Darrell Lee-Lamont Summers, II v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-08-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause confrontation-rights criminal-sexual-conduct criminal-trial cross-examination evidence-exclusion incentive-to-testify sixth-amendment witness-credibility | Whether a defendant's Sixth Amendment confrontation rights are violated when a trial court bars all cross-examination about events that concededly too… |
| 22-5453 | Hugo F. Marquez v. Brandon Kelly, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary | Ninth Circuit | 2022-08-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interview-tapes right-to-confrontation sex-abuse-case sex-crimes trial-procedure | 1. Should the Ninth Circuit have denied Marquez's motion for a certificate of appealability on the issue of ineffective assistance of counsel, where t… |
| 22-5345 | Gary Paul Karr v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-08-15 | Denied | Relisted (11)IFP | acquitted-conduct criminal-sentencing cross-examination due-process fifth-amendment hearsay-statement sixth-amendment | 1. Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments prohibit a federal court from basing a criminal defendant's sentence on conduct underlying a charge for whic… |
| 22-5331 | Mark Anthony Williams v. Michigan | Michigan | 2022-08-10 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause criminal-sexual-conduct cross-examination cumulative-error due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | I. THE EVIDENCE PRESENTED AT TRIAL WAS INSUFFICIENT TO SUPPORT THE CONVICTION OF CSC 1st DEGREE WHERE THERE WAS NO PROOF OF PENETRATION AS REQUIRED BY… |
| 22-5117 | Wade Robertson v. Committee on Grievances for the United States District Court for the District of Columbia | District of Columbia | 2022-07-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-proceedings confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-rights cross-examination due-process professional-license professional-licensing quasi-criminal witness-testimony | 1. Does the Federal Constitution secure to the holder of a professional license, such as an attorney, the right to confront and cross-examine adverse … |
| 21-8262 | Antonio Jones v. Frank Vanihel, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2022-06-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause cross-examination due-process fourteenth-amendment police-investigation right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence witness-credibility | Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, as constructed in Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36 (2004), Dutton v. Evans, 400 U.S. 74 (1970) and Bru… |
| 21-8139 | Duenta Grier v. Georgia | Georgia | 2022-06-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | availability confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process government-agent minors testimonial-hearsay witness-availability | Was the Confrontation Clause violated when the State presented testimonial hearsay consisting of out-of-court statements to a government agent alleged… |
| 21-7943 | Anthony Gerald Wernsman v. Colorado | Colorado | 2022-05-23 | Denied | IFP | colorado-courts confrontation-clause confrontation-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process harmless-error self-incrimination witness-intoxication | WHETHER THE COLORADO COURTS WRONGLY CONCLUDED THAT A DENIAL OF CROSS-EXAMINATION ON WITNESSES INTOXICATION DID NOT IMPLICATE PETITIONER 'S CONFRONTATI… |
| 21-7854 | Michael G. Peters v. David Hittner, Judge | Fifth Circuit | 2022-05-13 | Dismissed | IFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination hearsay sixth-amendment unavailability | Question not identified. |
| 21-1409 | Prince Bixler v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-05-03 | Denied | Response Waived | controlled-substances cross-examination federal-rule-of-evidence-412 fifth-amendment prostitution sentencing-enhancement sex-trafficking sixth-amendment | 1. Whether Bixler's rights under the Fifth and Sixth Amendments to the United States Constitution were violated by a pretrial ruling that he could not… |
| 21-7617 | Stevie Wyre v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2022-04-13 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence federal-rights habeas-corpus innocence newly-discovered-evidence perjury-testimony | 1) Whether Wype is ewttlet Yo Relief 02 av Eviherhiney heain Whene Whe Lded Slates Coue of Appeals. SCaeut avd Whe VUrled Ques Dishdiel Couet Loe Whe … |
| 21-1337 | Patrick Gillis v. David Gillis | Oregon | 2022-04-08 | Denied | 14th-amendment court-procedure cross-examination due-process fourteenth-amendment notice notice-requirement opportunity-to-be-heard probate-law standing | In accordance with the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution, are state courts directly responsible for not… | |
| 21-7215 | Clayton Walker v. Freeman's Electric Service, Inc., et al. | South Dakota | 2022-02-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights cross-examination disputable-facts due-process federal-statute medical-records subpoena witness-examination | Under 45 CFR § 164.524 does the Petitioner get to have the Right to his own Medical Records after they are subpoena by the Petitioner, and when those … |
| 21-986 | Donald A. Vanderveer v. Zoning Board of Appeals, Town of East Hampton, et al. | Second Circuit | 2022-01-13 | Denied | administrative-hearing administrative-law cross-examination due-process land-use liberty-interest property-rights zoning-board | Since 1947, Petitioner Vanderveer's Family has owned 3+ acres of land (with a small barn) in the Town of East Hampton, New York. Petitioner asserts he… | |
| 21-945 | Wisconsin v. Manuel Garcia | Wisconsin | 2021-12-27 | Denied | confession criminal-confession criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence-exclusion fifth-amendment miranda-warning miranda-warnings misleading-jury witness-testimony | Can a criminal defendant's cross-examination of a witness for the State, designed to mislead the jury, open the door to the introduction of the defend… | |
| 21-6635 | Larry Alonzo Gibbs, Jr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-12-16 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process hearsay hearsay-evidence relevance reliability witness-testimony | Does the State of Florida violate a defendant's right to confront witnesses when they allow the State to introduce evidence that a minor suffered from… |
| 21-6089 | Edward N. Daniels v. Bobbi Jo Salamon, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. | Third Circuit | 2021-10-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bruton-precedent bruton-v-united-states co-conspirator co-defendant confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence-admissibility precedent | DID THE LOWER COURT ERR WHEN THEY REFUSED TO APPLY THIS COURT'S PRECEDENT IN BRUTON V. UNITED STATES, 391 U.S. 123 (1968) WHEN THE CO-CONSPIRATOR / C… |
| 21-5856 | Raymond LeQuan Gibbs v. Neil McDowell, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2021-10-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bias confrontation-clause credibility criminal-trial cross-examination informant-testimony informant-witness sixth-amendment witness-credibility | The Sixth Amendment's Confrontation Clause guarantees a criminal defendant a reasonable opportunity to cross-examine the witnesses against him. The br… |
| 21-5807 | Christian Estrada Comacho v. Nebraska | Nebraska | 2021-09-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause covid-19 covid-19-exception criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process interpreter-testimony two-way-video video-testimony witness-demeanor witness-testimony | 1. Did the district court err when it allowed testimony via two-way interactive video on foundational or "factual scenario" grounds over confrontati… |
| 21-5611 | In Re Andrew James Johnston | 2021-09-08 | Dismissed | IFP | attempted-crime bank-robbery civil-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process intimidation jury-instructions prosecutorial-discretion | Will this Court issue a writ of habeas corpus that vacates the conviction and sentence imposed in Case No. 1:17-cr-517, under a version of a federal c… | |
| 21-5565 | Fortrell Latrae Sain v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-09-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights cross-examination discovery-violations due-process government-misconduct habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review procedural-violation sentencing | I. Whether delendant was the ^ deried the Oppurtunity to hry CRoss - examine the key Goveenment witness. II. Whether remand is requrees to deteemines… |
| 21-5255 | Nathaniel B. Appleby-El v. Maryland | Maryland | 2021-07-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence evidence-admission right-to-counsel witness-testimony | 1. Whether such extensive reliance on transcripts, denied Mr. Appleby-El's federal right of confrontation, because doing so effectively prevented him … |
| 21-5238 | Deyaa Khalill v. W. L. Montgomery, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2021-07-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process preliminary-hearing sixth-amendment | Whether the admission of preliminary hearing testimony violates a criminal defendant's Sixth Amendment right to confrontation when the preliminary hea… |
| 21-21 | Caroline Ross v. Judson Independent School District | Fifth Circuit | 2021-07-08 | Denied | administrative-law cross-examination due-process fourteenth-amendment hearsay-evidence non-renewal procedural-rules school-board school-board-non-renewal state-law-violation | 1. Petitioner was deprived of due process when the tribunals below materially misapprehended the record. They held that there was no objection to admi… | |
| 20-8416 | Raul Ramos v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-06-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process hearsay-evidence sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment united-states-v-haymond | Whether the district court's reliance on hearsay evidence to impose a guideline sentence of life violates Ramos's right to confront and cross-examine … |
| 20-1790 | Alston Campbell, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-06-23 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (2) | accomplice-witness accomplice-witnesses appellate-review confrontation-clause cross-examination due-process sentencing-benefits standard-of-review | 1. There is a split among the courts of appeals and several states on the following question: Whether a trial court violates a defendant's rights unde… |
| 20-8307 | Lamar McKnight v. Josie Gastelo, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2021-06-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause cross-examination due-process evidence expert-testimony gang-enhancement gang-expert jury-instruction natural-probable-consequences right-to-confront testimonial-hearsay | I. Should a COA Have Been Granted to Decide If the Trial Court's Admission of the Gang Expert's Testimonial Hearsay Deprived McKnight of His Right to … |
| 20-8312 | Ronald Delester Burke v. Washington | Washington | 2021-06-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination nurse-examiner sexual-assault sexual-assault-nurse-examiner sixth-amendment testimonial-statements | Does the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment prohibit a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner from testifying about statements made during a forensic … |
| 20-8169 | Yessenia Jimenez v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-05-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | batson-challenge civil-rights cross-examination due-process fifth-amendment hispanic jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes pretextual-reasons | 1. Whether the government violated Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, (1986), in the trial of a female Hispanic New York City police officer when it use… |
| 20-8028 | Ryan Jason Brannon v. Texas | Texas | 2021-05-14 | Denied | IFP | accuser available-to-testify confrontation-clause criminal-defendant cross-examination due-process right-to-confront sixth-amendment witness-testimony | Whether the plain language of the Sixth Amendment's Confrontation Clause gives a defendant the literal right to confront and cross-examine their accus… |
| 20-7917 | Miriam Lowell, et al. v. Vermont Department for Children and Families, et al. | Second Circuit | 2021-05-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-abuse constitutional-rights cross-examination due-process pre-deprivation-hearing substantiation substantiation-process younger-abstention | 1. Is a State's child abuse substantiation process sufficiently akin to a criminal proceeding such that it is subject to Younger abstention when a par… |
| 20-7729 | Casey Rose v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-04-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | competency-hearing confrontation-clause cooperating-witness cross-examination due-process impeachment indiana-v-edwards self-representation witness-impeachment | Whether the termination of cross-examination of a cooperating with incentives to lie prior to being able to impeach the witness violated the confronta… |
| 20-7325 | Eric Todd v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-03-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure cross-examination disclosure due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial fifth-amendment government-misconduct witness-testimony | Did the timing and method of the Government's disclosure violate Todd's Fifth Amendment to right to a fair trial, by preventing Todd from finding and … |
| 20-7343 | Justin David Williams v. Utah | Utah | 2021-03-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence hearsay sixth-amendment standard-of-review witness-testimony | Why was I denied the right to cross-examine my accused attacker, thereby violating my Sixth Amendment right "the accused shall enjoy the right to be c… |
| 20-1132 | DeMichael Tyrone Moore and Derrick Darnell Moore v. Tennessee | Tennessee | 2021-02-19 | Denied | confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination effective-cross-examination federal-law hearsay-exception memory-loss prior-recorded-statement witness-testimony | Whether the Confrontation Clause is violated by admitting a prior recorded statement of a witness who testifies he has no memory of making the stateme… | |
| 20-1128 | Ralph Clay Walsh, Jr. v. Lisa Hodge, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2021-02-17 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established clearly-established-law cross-examination due-process qualified-immunity title-ix | Justice Thomas and Justice Sotomayor have criticized the "clearly established" prong of the qualified immunity test and would revisit the Court's prec… |
| 20-6856 | Lavon Oden v. Neil Turner, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2021-01-14 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | confrontation-clause cross-examination effective-assistance-of-counsel hearsay hearsay-evidence ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment | Was LaVon Oden's Sixth Amendment:.Confrontation Clause right to directly confront witnesses; the right to cross examine adverse witnesses violated, wh… |
| 20-6453 | Marcos Alejandro Gonzalez Flores v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-11-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process fourth-amendment search-and-seizure suppression-hearing suppression-motion witness-testimony | The lower courts are in conflict about whether the Sixth Amendment's Confrontation Clause, the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause, or some other aut… |
| 20-6397 | Douglas Cornejo v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2020-11-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-disclosure brady-evidence confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process preliminary-hearing prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-present-defense witness-testimony | 1. Should a COA Have Been Granted to Decide If the Prosecutor's Failure to Disclose Brady Evidence Deprived Cornejo of His Right to Confront and Cross… |
| 20-6244 | Thomas M. Ha v. Christine Popoff, Superintendent, Oregon State Correctional Institution | Ninth Circuit | 2020-11-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation cross-examination due-process morrissey-precedent morrissey-v-brewer parole parolee-rights revocation-hearing witness-confrontation | Whether the holding in Morrissey v. Brewer, 408 U.S. 471 (1972), that a parolee's due process right to confront and cross-examine an adverse witness m… |
| 20-6040 | Charlie Bell Bullock v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Fourth Circuit | 2020-10-15 | Denied | IFP | capital-punishment confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-evidence professional-norms sentencing-phase sixth-amendment standard-of-review victim-rights | 1 -Do ^c, +W CW5t^ VV\Oy4^ CKV/CAl" 1 <\\y £ 0 ^ AV 5 Oy'b yv\v +'h-e<\ <k WcK > S Co^ Viclm Cross ■eAa^v\«ivo\N \ 4 6-C va.m\S.-€.| i Vs. -t. -e_<_-V… |
| 20-485 | Michael Torrence v. Kentucky | Kentucky | 2020-10-14 | Denied | 14th-amendment cell-phone-evidence cell-phone-tower-evidence confrontation-clause cross-examination due-process lay-witness pretrial-identification state-action | WHETHER THE COURT'S RULING THAT CELL PHONE TOWER LOCATION DATA AND INTERPRETATION MAY BE PRESENTED BY AN UNQUALIFIED LAY WITNESS WHO IS UNABLE TO ANSW… | |
| 20-5896 | In Re Douglas Weissert | 2020-10-02 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-rights cross-examination evidence-admissibility mental-health prescription-medication sixth-amendment trial-procedure witness-testimony | WHETHER STATE TRIAL COURT VIOLATED SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS WHEN IT FORBADE CROSS EXAMINING ANGLE LEWIS ON MENTAL HEALTH HISTORY AND USE OF PRESCRIPTION… | |
| 20-5481 | Fredrick Brown v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-08-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cross-examination federal-rules-of-evidence fifth-amendment mens-rea prior-acts sixth-amendment victim-witness-evidence | Were the Petitioner's rights under the Fifth and Sixth Amendments to the United States Constitution infringed, where pursuant to F.R.E. 412, the Trial… |
| 20-5483 | Dion Black v. Norm Robinson, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2020-08-25 | Denied | IFP | certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause confrontation-rights cross-examination double-inference-rule effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sufficiency-of-evidence | Should the petitioner have been granted a certificate of appealability where the State courtS/U.S. District Court and Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals d… |
| 20-5439 | Jesse Santibanez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-08-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | ABUSE-OF-DISCRETION CONFRONTATION-CLAUSE confrontation-right CRIMINAL-PROCEDURE CROSS-EXAMINATION district-court-discretion SIXTH-AMENDMENT WITNESS-CREDIBILITY witness-testimony | Question not identified. |
| 20-5441 | Craig Saunders v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. | Third Circuit | 2020-08-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | batson civil-rights constitutional-challenge cross-examination federal-procedure habeas-corpus peremptory-strikes rule-60b | 1. Whether reasonable jurists could debate that the District Court's limitation on the cross-examination of the prosecutor about objections to the use… |
| 20-5304 | Stephon Williams v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-08-07 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | adverse-effect conflict-of-interest criminal-trial cross-examination effective-assistance-of-counsel eleventh-circuit right-to-counsel sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent witness-representation | Whether Mr. Williams' Sixth Amendment right to conflict-free counsel was violated when his trial counsel simultaneously represented a witness testifyi… |
| 20-5014 | Darwin Josue Peralta v. North Carolina | North Carolina | 2020-07-09 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence jury-instructions legal-standards right-to-present-defense standard-of-review | Whether the trial Court Violated Mr.Peralta Statutory and Constitutional Rights by Relying on Dr. Beth Hers sexual Abuse Finding because she based Her… |
| 19-8819 | Hector Rivera v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-06-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alternative-evidence confrontation-right cross-examination district-court-discretion evidentiary-limitation federal-rules-of-evidence rule-403 sixth-amendment | Whethe r a district court 's discretion to limit the Sixth Amendment right to confront witnesses is as broad as the general discr etion to limit evid … |
| 19-8760 | Stefan Stewart v. Florida | Florida | 2020-06-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-court-discretion witness witness-representation | A) When the defense attorney previously represented the states key witness who now has conflicting interests with the defendant, does this amount to a… |
| 19-8615 | Vera Zhiry and Pyotr Bondaruk v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-06-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cross-examination federal-statute jurisdictional-hook mail-fraud materiality misrepresentation ninth-circuit remote-connection substantial-connection | 1. For the crime of mail fraud, what level of connection between the fraudulent scheme and the mailing is required to trigger the federal statute's ju… |
| 19-8425 | Chayce Aaron Anderson v. Colorado | Colorado | 2020-05-08 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-rights cross-examination due-process fair-trial jailhouse-informant jury-trial prejudicial-evidence | I. whether the district court erred when it improperly limited the scope of cross-examination of the jail house informant, thereby denying Mr. Anderso… |
| 19-8362 | Henry M. Mitchell, Jr. v. California | California | 2020-04-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bad-faith constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence-destruction police-misconduct | WHETHER THE POLICE MAY RELY OF UNSUBSTANTIATED EVIDENCE TO ABSOLVE THEM OF BAD FAITH INTENTIONAL DESTRUCTION OF POTENTIALLY USEFUL EVIDENCE? WHETHE… |
| 19-8040 | Jerry Meas v. Osvaldo Vidal, Superintendent, Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center, et al. | First Circuit | 2020-03-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability confrontation confrontation-clause credibility criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence habeas-corpus judicial-discretion sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-confrontation witness-credibility | 1. Whether it is permissible under a criminal defendant's Sixth Amendment right of confrontation for a trial judge to curtail materially relevant cros… |
| 19-7932 | Enrique Auch v. Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 2020-03-10 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination evidence-law feigning memory-loss out-of-court-statements sixth-amendment testimonial-statements witness-testimony | Whether the Confrontation Clause permits the prosecution to introduce out-of-court testimonial statements from a witness who is feigning memory loss a… |
| 19-7942 | Daniel Dale Parsons v. R. Blades, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2020-03-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | adverse-witness co-defendant-guilty-plea co-defendant-statement compulsory-process compulsory-process-clause confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination harmless-error plain-error waiver | I. Has the accused's right of confrontation been converted from the prosecutor's duty under Confrontation Clause into the accused's privilege under th… |
| 19-7246 | Keith Harris v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-01-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause crawford-rule crawford-v-washington cross-examination hearsay informants law-enforcement-testimony lay-opinion-testimony right-to-counsel sixth-amendment witness-testimony | whether the admission of law enforcement testimony that goes to whether a defendant was a participant in a conspiracy based on information provided by… |
| 19-7133 | Angel Noel Guevara v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-12-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-v-maryland cross-examination due-process expert-testimony eyewitness-identification eyewitness-testimony independent-evidence police-lineup rule-403 sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-present-defense | 1. Whether excluding expert testimony on eyewitness memory and police lineup procedures violates the Sixth Amendment right to present a defense, or co… |
| 19-7097 | Juan Sanchez v. California | California | 2019-12-30 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process out-of-court-statements prior-testimony testimonial-statements trial-evidence witness-memory witness-testimony | Whether a defendant in a criminal case is denied the opportunity for full and effective cross-examination in violation of the Confrontation Clause by … |
| 19-7021 | Otis Hunter and Deshawn Evans v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-12-19 | Denied | IFP | bias confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination jury-instructions jury-nullification mandatory-minimum nullification sentencing sixth-amendment witness-cooperation | Whether the Sixth Amendment Confrontation Clause is violated when a court bars a defendant from eliciting the mandatory minimum sentence a prosecution… |
| 19-685 | Edward George McGregor v. Texas | Texas | 2019-11-27 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2) | credibility cross-examination due-process false-testimony materiality prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility | Is the materiality of false testimony knowingly used by the prosecution determined by asking whether the jury would have convicted the defendant had t… |
| 19-6676 | Christopher G. Waguespack v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-11-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography computer-evidence computer-forensics confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination evidence law-enforcement sixth-amendment software-reliability | I. Whether failing to call the law enforcement agent responsible for generating a computer report in the Government's case-in-chief implicates the Six… |
| 19-6597 | Thiodore Igorovich Galitsa v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-11-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | credibility criminal-history criminal-procedure-due-process cross-examination dismissed-case dismissed-charges due-process fair-trial false-statements illegal-reentry prior-arrests prior-convictions prosecutorial-misconduct trial-fairness | Was Mr. Galitsa denied his right to a fair trial by the government's repeated questioning about allegations from a case dismissed for lack of evidence… |
| 19-6365 | Deontae Travohn Davis v. Duncan MacLaren, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-10-24 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process expert-witness handwriting-expert perjury preliminary-examination | CAN THIS COURT EXTEND EXPERT WITNESS NEEDED BEYOND PSYCHIATRIST SPECIALIST BECAUSE COURTS REFUSED OFFER HANDWRITING EXPERT TO ASSIST PETITIONER DEFENS… |
| 19-467 | Chixapkaid Donald Michael Pavel v. University of Oregon, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-10-09 | Denied | Response Waived | confrontation cross-examination due-process employment-rights public-university sexual-harassment tenure termination union | 1) When a tenured professor at a public university is accused of sexual harassment, and vigorously disputes the allegations, do his due process rights… |
| 19-5936 | Cesar Rosario Lopez-Ramos v. Minnesota | Minnesota | 2019-09-13 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination foreign-language-interpreter police-interrogation sixth-amendment testimonial-statements translation-evidence | Whether the Sixth Amendment's Confrontation Clause permits the prosecution to introduce testimonial statements in the form of an unidentified foreign … |
| 19-5879 | Timothy L. Joe v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-09-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment cross-examination due-process evidence evidentiary-law impeachment impeachment-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel opioid-addiction police-misconduct sixth-amendment | Can Florida's evidentiary laws constitutionally preclude impeachment evidence of opioid-addicted police officers? |
| 19-5821 | Robert Earl Robinson v. Arizona, et al. | Arizona | 2019-09-05 | Denied | IFP | appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review brady-v-maryland civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure cross-examination discovery due-process exculpatory-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment standing statutory-interpretation | Should the verdict be reversed because the plea was not entered into knowingly intelligently and voluntarily? Did the prosecution violate Brady requi… |
| 19-159 | Carlos Tapia v. New York | New York | 2019-08-02 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence memory-loss sixth-amendment testimonial-statement | Whether, when a witness's total memory loss prevents him from testifying about his prior out-of-court testimonial statement, the witness's mere presen… |
| 19-5300 | Fremo Santana v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-07-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination guideline-range ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-proceedings | WHETHER DEFENSE COUNSEL'S PERFORMANCE WAS CONSTITUTIONALLY INEFFECTIVE FOR ERRONEOUSLY MISCALCULATING PETITIONER'S GUIDELINE RANGE WHICH WAS THE DECID… |
| 19-5346 | Jose Martinez v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-07-25 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | acquitted-conduct burden-of-proof buyer-seller-defense criminal-conviction cross-examination drug-conspiracy due-process jury-instructions jury-trial sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | 1. A writ of certiorari is requested to determine whether this Court's decisions to allow district courts to use acquitted conduct in imposing sentenc… |
| 19-5136 | Sha-Ron Haines v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-07-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rights cross-examination due-process evidence evidence-rule-412 rape-shield rape-shield-law right-to-privacy victim-privacy | Can the Government invoke Federal Rule of Evidence 412, the rape shield, over the objection of the victim, when doing so infringes upon a defendant's … |
| 18-9795 | Gregory A. Barto v. Mark Garmon, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. | Third Circuit | 2019-06-25 | Denied | IFP | certificate-of-appealability cross-examination due-process effective-cross-examination evidence-tampering habeas-corpus procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment state-court-review sufficiency-of-evidence | WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS DECISION TO DENY A COA CONCLUDING THAT PETITIONER SUFFICEINCY OF EVIDENCE CLAIM WAS PROCEDURALLY DEFAULTED BASED ON STA… |
| 18-9567 | Daniel De Leon v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-06-06 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process indictment jury-trial reasonable-doubt supervised-release | 1. Whether violations of supervised release that require or permit additional imprisonment must be proven to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt and plac… |
| 18-9555 | Kenneth Thomas v. Robert Marsh, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Benner Township | Third Circuit | 2019-06-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | autopsy-report confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington cross-examination fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel melendez-diaz-v-massachusetts sixth-amendment strickland-standard testimonial-evidence | WHETHER THIS COURT SHOULD CONSIDER IF THE INTRODUCTION OF AN AUTOPSY REPORT WHICH WAS PRESENTED AS SUBSTANTIVE EVIDENCE BUT NOT TESTIFIED TO BY ITS AU… |
| 18-1506 | Julian Martin v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-06-03 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | co-defendant-statement confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence fair-trial hearsay reliability-of-evidence right-to-confront-witnesses sixth-amendment | Whether the District Court's express reliance on an out-of-court statement of a non-testifying co-defendant as a basis for finding the defendant guilt… |
| 18-9446 | Davon Kelly Bennett v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-05-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination custodial-interrogation daubert-standard due-process evidence expert-witness-testimony motion-to-suppress rule-404b sixth-amendment | 1. Whether the District Court deprived Petitioner of his right to confront witnesses by limiting defense counsel's opportunity to cross-examine the go… |
| 18-9414 | Donald Stewart Royce v. Florida | Florida | 2019-05-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment 6th-amendment confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence impeachment law-enforcement witness witness-testimony | During the Petitioner's trial one of the two victims was to be questioned by the defense about prior inconsistent statements to law enforcement for im… |
| 18-9281 | Randy Burke v. Diane Prosper, Acting Warden, et al. | Virgin Islands | 2019-05-15 | Denied | IFP | 6th-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination double-jeopardy due-process evidence evidence-law expert-testimony ineffective-assistance jury-instructions right-to-confrontation trial-counsel | INEFFEcTiVE ASSisTANCE OF COSEL is A 6AMENdMENT RiGHT ViolaTiON WItNES BEATRCE RENCE WHN TRiA COUNSEL EWTHAt is Cien RDBuRKE HAVE THE RigHT To bE CON… |
| 18-9227 | Robert Sparks v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2019-05-10 | Denied | IFP | capital-punishment cross-examination due-process expert-testimony expert-witness false-testimony harmless-error jury-impartiality prosecutorial-misconduct | QUESTION ONE: Does cross-examination of a prosecution's expert cure all harm from that expert's repeated false testimony during a capital punishment p… |
| 18-9062 | Derek Ray King v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-05-01 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process indictment jury-trial reasonable-doubt sentencing supervised-release | 1. Whether violations of supervised release that require or permit additional imprisonment must be proven to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt, place d… |
| 18-9015 | Diego Rodrigo Perea v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-04-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause constructive-denial criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment | Was the State Court's rejection of the Petitioner's claim that he was constructively denied the assistance of counsel, when the State Court failed to … |
| 18-8955 | Gregory Butler v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. | Third Circuit | 2019-04-23 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment 6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions other-crimes-evidence sixth-amendment trial-fairness witness-confrontation | Whether the district court and the third circuit erred in refusing to issue a certificate of appealability when it determined the admission of the oth… |
| 18-8862 | Roderick White v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2019-04-17 | Denied | Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation crawford-v-washington cross-examination due-process evidence memory-loss testimonial-hearsay united-states-v-owens | Whether the rule of United States v. Owens, 484 U.S. 554 (1988), as used by courts to admit testimonial hearsay from witnesses not amenable to cross-e… |
| 18-1283 | Joseph Montano v. Texas | Fifth Circuit | 2019-04-10 | Denied | Response Waived | consent consent-requirement cross-examination double-jeopardy fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-privilege judicial-discretion mistrial oregon-v-kennedy plain-error united-states-v-olano | If the underlying reason for a sua sponte declaration of mistrial was in plain error, does Olano v. United States override the consent requirement of … |
| 18-8591 | Jose J. Salazar-Hernandez v. Texas | Texas | 2019-03-28 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment child-sexual-assault confrontation-clause constitutional-violation criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process federal-habeas habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct statute-of-limitations victim-testimony | Is it logical to conclude 1. that a trier-of fact has reasonably and rationally the "beyond a reasonable applied doubt" standard as contemplated under… |
| 18-8587 | In Re Christopher Stegawski | 2019-03-27 | Denied | IFP | 21-cfr-1306.04 21-usc-802 21-usc-841 allocution chronic-pain-treatment cross-examination due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel medical-expert strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-fairness united-states-v-moore witness-testimony | Was the trial fair when: - prosecution took 5 days of testimonies and defense none - key defense witnesses were not investigated pretrial - court deni… | |
| 18-8418 | Marvin Waddleton, III v. Bernadette Rodriguez, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2019-03-13 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights cross-examination due-process force-application good-faith qualified-immunity summary-judgment | The core of the inquiry.. .That once the provisions of 42 USCS 1997, and Clear Established Law has been properly satified to over come Quailfied Immun… |
| 18-8332 | Abu-Ali Abdur'Rahman, et al. v. Tony Parker, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Corrections, et al. | Tennessee | 2019-03-08 | Denied | Amici (1)IFP | cross-examination discovery due-process execution-method execution-secrecy method-of-execution prisoners-rights privileged-communications standing state-officials state-secrecy | Does a state deprive condemned prisoners of due process when, to defeat a challenge to the state's method of execution, state officials rely on and th… |
| 18-8118 | Alvin Davis, Jr. v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2019-02-26 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct second-amendment witness-tampering | Was the Petitioner, Alvin Davis, Jr. denied a fair trial, by violations and conflict of state and federal law, Batson v Kentucky, Brady v Maryland, an… |
| 18-8127 | Nguyen Vu v. Sandy L.V. Byrd, Judge, Court of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania, First Judicial District, et al. | Pennsylvania | 2019-02-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment civil-rights cross-examination due-process evidence-suppression evidence-tampering fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct perjury prosecutorial-misconduct recusal | Whether Petitioner's constitutional rights to due process under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution were violated when Judge Sa… |
| 18-7917 | Najee Sharif Wilkins v. Michigan | Michigan | 2019-02-12 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause cross-examination eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana parole-eligibility witness-testimony | Petitioner was sentenced to 45-100 years concurrent to 10-40 years for second-degree murder and perjury committed when he was under the age of 18 whic… |
| 18-7271 | Richard Steven Johnson, Jr. v. Neil McDowell, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2019-01-07 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause coy-v-iowa criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process fundamental-rights maryland-v-craig witness-testimony | The sole question raised by this Petition for Certiorari is whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals violated petitioner's fundamental rights by rul… |
| 18-7146 | Jonathan Samuel Sage v. Washington | Washington | 2018-12-21 | Denied | IFP | confrontation confrontation-clause cross-examination double-jeopardy double-jeopardy-clause due-process evidence-restriction judicial-review jury-instructions multiple-convictions same-crime same-person-same-time separate-and-distinct-conduct uncharged-misconduct witness-credibility | 1. It is well established that when a person is charged with multiple counts of the same crime committed against the same person at the same time, the… |
| 18-6988 | Donald Sanders v. Domingo Uribe, Jr., Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2018-12-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation confrontation-clause cross-examination due-process eyewitness eyewitness-testimony federal-proceedings fundamental-fairness ninth-circuit state-court state-court-proceedings | Whether the Ninth Circuit clearly erred in its decision that the state court reasonably concluded that Petitioner's right to confrontation was not vio… |
| 18-6845 | Edward Mitchell v. Lawrence Mahally, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. | Third Circuit | 2018-11-27 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | clearly-established-law confrontation-clause constitutional-law crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process greene-v-fisher habeas habeas-corpus habeas-statute retroactivity | The Petitioner, Edward Mitchell, was convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment by a state trial court in 2001 based on testimony that, al… |
| 18-6804 | Shane Roach v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-11-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-conflict confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process legal-objection preservation-of-error sixth-amendment standard-of-review | Does a defendant preserve a confrontation issue for review by clearly articulating Confrontation Clause concerns as the basis for his objection withou… |
| 18-687 | Auriel Devon Frett v. Territory of the Virgin Islands | Virgin Islands | 2018-11-26 | Denied | chambers-v-mississippi co-defendant-testimony confrontation confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination cumulative-error-doctrine due-process jury-instructions sentencing sixth-amendment | 1. Whether the instruction to not consider the specific length of sentence a testifying co-defendant faced absent cooperation violates a defendant's s… | |
| 18-674 | Jedidiah Isaac Murphy v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2018-11-23 | Denied | brady-violation criminal-procedure-error cross-examination due-process expert-witness habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel materiality materiality-standard presumption-of-correctness prosecutorial-misconduct psychological-evaluation standard-of-review | 1. Whether the court of appeals erred in requiring that an expert witness, instead of trial counsel, correct the false impression that the prosecutor … | |
| 18-6791 | Benjamin Bland v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-11-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination evidence evidence-admissibility government-evidence harmless-error hearsay sixth-amendment social-security-administration trial-procedure | Whether petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to confront witnesses against him was violated where a spreadsheet (Government's Exhibit MD-313) created by… |
| 18-6724 | Roger Lee Ozier v. Shirlee Harry, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2018-11-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review armed-robbery bank-robbery confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination eyewitness-testimony fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence probable-cause sixth-amendment | THE EVIDENCE PRESENTED AT TRIAL WAS INSUF- FICIENT TO SUSTAIN MR. OZIER'S CONVICTION FOR ARMED ROBBERY AND BANK ROBBERY. PETITIONER WAS DENIED HIS RI… |
| 18-6725 | Charles Wayne Bussell v. Kentucky | Kentucky | 2018-11-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process impeachment impeachment-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-hearing post-conviction-relief postconviction-hearing sixth-amendment tainted-testimony trial-strategy witness-testimony | After Petitioner was convicted of robbery and murder, the state court decided that Defense counsel's cross-examination of two critical witnesses was i… |
| 18-6703 | David Richard Trimble v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2018-11-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-rape Confrontation-Clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jackson-v-virginia sixth-amendment Statute-of-limitations sufficiency-of-evidence | Reasonable jurists would find it debatable whether the evidence was insufficient to find David Trimble guilty of four counts of Aggravated Rape beyond… |
| 18-6475 | Lewis Wright v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2018-10-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-violation confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination cross-examination-rights due-process evidence-disclosure fourteenth-amendment parole perjury prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment witness-bias | WHETHER THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS ERRED IN LIMITING MR. STEEN ABILITY TO ESTABLISH WITNESS JOSEPH FARLEY'S BIAS WHERE MR. STEIN WAS PREVENTED FROM INQ… |
| 18-6462 | Juan Carlos Mendez v. California | California | 2018-10-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment | In a child molestation case, the defendant took the stand and denied that any abuse had occurred. The prosecutor then cross-examined him at length reg… |
| 18-493 | Rose J. Spano v. The Florida Bar | Florida | 2018-10-17 | Denied | 14th-amendment 5th-amendment bar-disciplinary-proceedings constitutional-rights cross-examination due-process evidentiary-hearing liberty-interest property-interest | Petitioner, Rose Spano, questions the constitutionality of the Florida Supreme Court's decision to deny the Petitioner a right to an evidentiary heari… | |
| 18-6355 | Christian Dominique Scott v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-10-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence parole revocation sentencing supervised-release | I. Whether supervised release revocation defendants enjoy a limited right of cross-examination as to facts that increase the sentence imposed followin… |
| 18-6160 | Kevin R. Carmody v. Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2018-10-01 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | bias civil-procedure cross-examination due-process employment hearing-officer involuntary-termination post-termination-proceedings privileged-document procedural-fairness public-employee public-employment standing termination | 1. Did the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit err in finding Plaintiff bowed out of the post-termination proceedings? 2. Does an involuntarily … |
| 18-6047 | Leo Llowlyn Seed v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-09-20 | Denied | IFP | alibi appeal charging-information civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions trial-counsel verdict-form witness-investigation | Whether Trial Counsel was ineffective for failing to object to incomplete Jury instructions Whether Trial Counsel failing to object to the Alibi And … |
| 18-6060 | James Chavez v. Robert LeGrand, Warden, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-09-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause crawford-precedent crawford-v-washington cross-examination hearsay-exception preliminary-hearing sixth-amendment testimonial-statements witness-unavailability | Whether, pursuant to Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36 (2004), a Prosecution can Admit Prior Testimonial Statements, Including a Video-taped Intervi… |
| 18-6015 | Gustavo Torres-Medel v. Jacqueline Lashbrook, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2018-09-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cross-examination defense-presentation discovery expert-witness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-rights trial-counsel | Were Acker dents Sixth Ameadment rights tt preloted when DD frial counsel Farled to utilize an expert ness trial counsel farted te present delense He… |
| 18-5985 | Jeffery Dana Sparks v. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary | Oregon | 2018-09-14 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination death-penalty evidence-presentation expert-testimony expert-witnesses ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecution-experts prosecution-theory trial-strategy | Whether defense counsel in a death penalty trial provided effective assistance where that counsel failed thoroughly to prepare to cross-examine forese… |
| 18-5843 | Alexander Manjanja Chanthunya v. Maryland Attorney Grievance Commission | Maryland | 2018-08-30 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | attorney-disciplinary-proceedings attorney-discipline attorney-misconduct bar-counsel civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights cross-examination disciplinary-proceedings due-process fair-hearing judicial-review standing | Whether Maryland Court of Appeals erred in denying Petitioner's Petition, without opinion, that properly raised a constitutional issue regarding viola… |
| 18-5807 | Peter R. Rubens v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2018-08-29 | Denied | IFP | brady brady-violation cross-examination due-process prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment structural-error witness-intimidation | Does Webb v. Texas apply when it is the Orleans Parish District Attorney's Office who systematically threatens, coerces, intimidates, and actually off… |
| 18-5646 | Syrus Martin v. Georgia | Georgia | 2018-08-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-hearsay child-testimony cross-examination evidence evidence-admissibility evidence-law hearsay hearsay-evidence hearsay-exceptions prior-statements statutory-interpretation testifying-witness witness-statements | Whether Georgia's child hearsay statutes or O.C.G.A. § 24-8-801 (d) (1) (A) control the permissible use of the prior statements of a testifying child. |
| 18-5653 | Pamela Lynn Bravebull v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-08-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cross-examination due-process evidence-rules expert-witness fair-trial federal-rules-of-evidence fifth-amendment sixth-amendment structural-error venireperson | 1. Evidence upon which the jury may rely in convicting a defendant must come through qualified sworn witnesses, not through a colloquy with a venirepe… |
| 18-5581 | George Jenewicz v. New Jersey | New Jersey | 2018-08-14 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights compulsory-process confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process hearsay | Was not allowed to demonstrate to jury my state of mind due to intoxication in regards to the Force Syndrome when I allowed them into my residence wit… |
| 18-5521 | Miguel Antonio Ramos v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-08-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process fourth-amendment procedural-due-process sentencing sentencing-enhancement supervised-release | WHETHER THE PETITIONER WAS DENIED PROCEDURAL DUE PROCESS BY ENHANCEMENTS TO HIS GUIDELINES SENTENCE WITHOUT ANY PROOF TO SUPPORT THOSE ENHANCEMENTS? … |
| 18-5347 | Marquis D. Costic v. Illinois | Illinois | 2018-07-25 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-rights credibility cross-examination fifth-amendment jailhouse-informant jury-instructions prosecution-witness prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment witness-disclosure | Was my Sixth Amendment U.s. Constitutional Right, under the Confrontation Clause vilated when the prasecution kept interruping during crass examinatio… |
| 18-5349 | Tyron Young v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-07-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause confrontation-right cross-examination due-process government-informant hearsay out-of-court-allegations reliability sentencing sentencing-hearing sixth-amendment unsworn-testimony | I. Whether the Sixth Amendment right to confront and cross-examine adverse witnesses applies at a sentencing hearing where the court bases the sentenc… |
| 18-5301 | Cahlan Clay v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-07-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | compulsory-process confrontation-clause criminal-defense criminal-procedure cross-examination defendant-rights defense-strategy due-process evidence fair-trial judicial-discretion jury-instructions jury-trial trial-procedure witness-examination | Whether a court may dictate the manner by which a defendant presents his case to the jury by forcing defense counsel to rely exclusively on the cross-… |
| 18-5189 | Glenvert Green v. United States | Third Circuit | 2018-07-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process fifth-amendment hearsay hearsay-evidence sentencing sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment victim-impact-statement victim-impact-statements | A. Do the Sixth and Fifth Amendments provide a criminal defendant with a right to cross-examine a government witness who testifies during a sentencing… |