chain-of-custody
18 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-6446 | Larayna Manning v. Kentucky | Kentucky | 2025-02-03 | Denied | IFP | chain-of-custody constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment sixth-amendment speedy-trial | I. THE RIGHT TO A SPEEDY TRIAL AND THE PREJUDICE THIS DELAY CAUSED TO DEFENDANT WAS A VIOLATION OF HER CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS? II. THE CHAIN OF CUST… |
| 24-5509 | James Rashad Clay v. Roy Odum, Warden | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-09-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | chain-of-custody constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process forensic-evidence witness-testimony | I. Who was the November 11, 2013 gunshot residue report under Division of Forensic Sciences Case# 2013-10 4511 by Georgia Bureau of Investigation exam… |
| 23-7156 | Robert Shields v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-04-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | chain-of-custody chemical-identity constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-distribution due-process evidence evidence-standard | (1) Does the Constitutional right to due process of law require some evidence that a drug that resulted in death was chemically identical to the drug … |
| 23-1017 | Marc Thielman, et al. v. Lavonne Griffin-Valade, Oregon Secretary of State, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-03-15 | Denied | Response Waived | ballot-security ballot-trafficking chain-of-custody election-integrity election-process public-confidence signature-verification standing-doctrine vote-by-mail voter-confidence voter-rolls | do petitioners have standing to challenge oregon's vote-by-mail election system due to the loss of their freedom caused by oregon's confidence-destroy… |
| 23-582 | Rollo A. Barker, aka Rollo Narker v. New Jersey | New Jersey | 2023-11-30 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 6th-amendment chain-of-custody confrontation-clause criminal-evidence evidence forensic-analysis lab-analysis lab-testimony melendez-diaz melendez-diaz-precedent sixth-amendment | Does testimony from a lab analyst who did not perform the actual testing on Defendant's seized (alleged) contraband that was analyzed by a State Polic… |
| 23-5829 | Luis Rios v. Patrick Covello, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2023-10-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aedpa aedpa-limitations chain-of-custody factual-predicate habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice-prong statute-of-limitations | When determining the one-year limitations period under 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(1)(D) of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) for an i… |
| 23-5278 | Earl Monroe Belcher v. Brian Williams, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2023-08-03 | Denied | IFP | chain-of-custody constitutional-rights district-court dna-evidence due-process federal-law habeas-corpus hearsay ineffective-assistance reasonable-doubt unreasonable-application | 1. Whether the District Gourts' denial:of/appealability of COA was an unreasonable application of clearly established federal law? 2. Whether the Di… |
| 22-7671 | Eduardo Catarino Palacios v. Texas | Texas | 2023-05-31 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP | brady-violation chain-of-custody due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct texas-criminal-procedure | Eduardo CatarLno Palacios was convicted of Murder t in Texas State Court largely based on False Testimony evidence and sentenced to 50 years. Petition… |
| 21-6620 | Tormu Prall v. Andrew J. Bruck, Acting Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. | Third Circuit | 2021-12-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | chain-of-custody criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-tampering fundamental-fairness prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony | 1). While incarcerated at the county jail between October 2008 and February 04, 2010, state witnesses Jeneya Richardson and Kimberly Meadows wrote the… |
| 21-5932 | Michael R. Burns v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-10-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | chain-of-custody civil-rights dna-fabrication due-process evidence-substitution evidence-tampering fabrication forensic-evidence forensic-integrity laboratory-procedure substitution | Whether the Court should grant a Writ of Certiorari to review whether petitioner's conviction was obtained through the fabrication of DNA and fingerpr… |
| 21-5087 | Zachary Gage Pebley v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-07-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | authentication chain-of-custody criminal-procedure deepfakes digital-evidence digital-recordings due-process voice-identification | When the government is the proponent of evidence at a criminal trial, it bears the burden of establishing both authentication and chain of custody. Au… |
| 20-8467 | Cyrus Casby v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-07-01 | Granted | Response WaivedIFP | chain-of-custody civil-rights constitutional-standards criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process evidence-contamination expert-qualification expert-testimony scientific-procedure testing-guidelines | WHETHER THE ACCUSED DNA REPORT AND RAW DATA (SCIENTIFIC PROOF) CONTAMINATED (UPLIFTING EVIDENCE WAS MISUSED TO CONVICT ME, TO DISMISS MY INDICTMENT/OV… |
| 20-8430 | Samuel Gayden v. Illinois | Illinois | 2021-06-24 | Denied | IFP | chain-of-custody criminal-procedure dna-evidence evidence-admissibility fair-trial ineffective-assistance jury-instructions lay-opinion prosecutorial-misconduct trial-procedure witness-identification | I Whether the State misused DNA evidence to link Petitioner to the weapon used in the offense, and to alleged threatening letters sent from the Cook C… |
| 20-6654 | Gabino Romero v. Raymond Madden, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2020-12-18 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment chain-of-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-rulings fair-trial jury-instructions prejudice search-and-seizure standing | Whether the District Court of the United States was warranted in dismissing and converting research prior to bench hearing. Whether the District Cour… |
| 19-7228 | Jerry Carter v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-01-09 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | chain-of-custody confidential-informant confrontation-clause criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-8th-amendment-confrontation-cla criminal-procedure-ineffective-assistance-of-couns eighth-circuit evidence harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel napue-violation strickland-standard Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in rejecting the | Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred by "We also find no abuse of discretion in entering the decision the admission, with a limiting ins… |
| 19-6837 | Anzara Brown v. Dana Metzger, Warden, et al. | Third Circuit | 2019-12-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-v-maryland chain-of-custody civil-rights confidential-informant constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-disclosure exculpatory-evidence forensic-evidence medical-examiners witness-testimony | I. WHETHER THE STATE OF DELAWARE CAN WITHOLD EXCUIPATORY EVIDENCE RELATING TO THE STATES OFFICE OF MEDICAL EXATMINERS OFFICIALS i STEALING DRUG EVIDEN… |
| 18-8847 | Javier Bocanegra, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-04-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | chain-of-custody cocaine-conspiracy conspiracy controlled-substances cooperating-witnesses credibility criminal-conspiracy criminal-law deferred-adjudication drug-offense-enhancement evidence full-faith-and-credit reasonable-doubt | I. Is there insufficient evidence for a conspiracy to transport cocaine conviction based upon the testimony of cooperating witnesses who are not credi… |
| 18-1286 | Brian D. Baur v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2019-04-10 | Denied | Response Waived | castle-doctrine chain-of-custody civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-preservation ineffective-counsel law-of-the-case prosecutorial-misconduct reassignment sentencing standing use-of-force | 1. Whether the Law of the Case Doctrine is an issue in this case since two Judges have made rulings concerning the Constitutional Rights of the Pet… |