character-evidence
24 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-5075 | Mark Jabben v. Texas | Texas | 2025-07-10 | Denied | IFP | character-evidence confrontation-clause due-process expert-testimony sixth-amendment trial-procedure | 1. Should the Court of Criminal Appeal's overturn the verdict because there was insufficent evidence of culpability ? 2. Did the State Court violate… |
| 24-6453 | Steven Michael Cenephat v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-02-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | character-evidence evidence-rule federal-procedure intent-element mental-state prior-crime | Does a court, in deciding whether a defendant's prior crime is relevant to the non-character issue of intent under Rule 404(b), need only determine wh… |
| 24-5896 | Matthew Myke v. Wisconsin | Wisconsin | 2024-11-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | character-evidence criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance sexual-assault trial-strategy witness-testimony | 1. In a criminal case involving accusations of sexual assault in which the prosecution relies solely upon the testimony of the complainant, is it inef… |
| 23-6120 | Demecia Shontres Washington v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-11-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | character-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-standard expert-testimony jury-bias plain-error profile-evidence | Whether the district court plainly erred by admitting expert testimony about the common characteristics of a particular type of offender, also known a… |
| 23-5838 | Mario Reynoso, aka Mario Hernandez v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-10-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | admissibility-of-evidence character-evidence district-court-discretion district-courts evidence-admissibility federal-rules-of-evidence non-propensity-purpose reasoning rule-404(b)(2) rule-404b ultimate-decision | Whether Rule 404(b)(2) of the Federal Rules of Evidence permits district courts the use of propensity/character-conforming reasoning to reach an ultim… |
| 22-6862 | Benjamin Young v. Alabama | Alabama | 2023-02-24 | Denied | IFP | capital-trial character-evidence criminal-procedure culpability-phase dawson-v-delaware first-amendment fourteenth-amendment gang-membership sentencing-phase | Whether, as in the sentencing phase of a capital trial under Dawson v. Delaware, 503 U.S. 159 (1992), the First and Fourteenth Amendment prohibit the … |
| 22-5966 | Malachi Henessey Rodriguez v. Minnesota | Minnesota | 2022-11-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof character-evidence civil-rights coercion consent constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admission reasonable-doubt | 1. The state failure to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the petitioner used coercion where there was no evidence that NC communicated lack of con… |
| 21-7018 | Jose Fuentes v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-02-01 | Denied | IFP | character-evidence criminal-procedure deposition due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insanity-defense medical-records subpoena trial-counsel witness-testimony | Question one of ground one of Fuentes £2254 petition: Relevancy is everything when it comes to evidence, and the Petitioner 's private psychologist, D… |
| 21-5943 | Brandon Ward v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-10-12 | Denied | IFP | 28-usc-2253 appellate-counsel certificate-of-appealability character-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel trial-counsel use-of-force witness-testimony | 1. Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) on his claim that his trial … |
| 20-992 | John Vigna v. Maryland | Maryland | 2021-01-26 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review character-evidence constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process fair-trial harmless-error | In this criminal case, the Maryland court, in a trial for sexual abuse of a child, excluded evidence of the petitioner's character trait of appropriat… |
| 20-6044 | Luidgi Benjamin v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-10-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | character-evidence character-testimony criminal-procedure district-court-jurisdiction due-process enticement evidentiary-admission judicial-discretion jury-instructions venue venue-challenge | 1. Should certiorari be granted where venue was laid in the Southern District of New York, even though no elements of the crime occurred there, includ… |
| 19-1472 | Phillip Antonio Davis v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections | Tenth Circuit | 2020-07-08 | Denied | character-evidence conspiracy conspiracy-theory criminal-defense criminal-procedure-evidence-admissibility due-process evidence-exclusion excessive-force jackson-v-virginia judicial-review relevance right-to-present-defense standard-of-review trial-procedure | 1. Whether the exclusion of evidence deemed necessary by Petitioner to present a complete defense and to combat the State's theory of guilt could be r… | |
| 19-8177 | Christopher Kyle Keys v. Florida | Florida | 2020-04-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment 6th-amendment cellular-phone-data character-evidence collateral-crimes criminal-procedure due-process evidence sixth-amendment trial-court-discretion warrantless-search | The State Trial Court denied a timely motion for severance of the charges from separate incidents. And the Trial Court allowed the State Attorney to p… |
| 19-7587 | Lannon Lavar Burdunice v. Minnesota | Minnesota | 2020-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acquittal batson bias character-evidence circumstantial-evidence constitutional-rights criminal-law double-jeopardy due-process evidence incomplete-jury-verdict insufficient-evidence intent-to-kill judicial-error judicial-misconduct jury-instructions jury-verdict prior-convictions prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-be-present right-to-present-defense second-degree-murder weight-of-evidence | 1. MUST MV CONVICTION FOR SECOND DEGREE INTENTIONAL MURDER BE VACATED AND A JUDGEMENT OF ACQUITTAL ENTERED INSTEAD WHERE THE JURY'S GUILTY VERDICT GOE… |
| 19-6977 | Samuel T. Pitts v. Florida | Florida | 2019-12-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | adult-victims character-evidence constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection propensity-evidence sexual-battery sexual-offenses | Whether constitutional equal protection and due process principles require that a defendant charged with a sexual offense on an adult alleged victim b… |
| 19-213 | Charles Fischer v. Texas | Texas | 2019-08-19 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review character-evidence constitutional-law criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process propensity-evidence propensity-inference statutory-interpretation texas-court-of-appeals texas-statute | Whether the Due Process Clause is offended by a statute that authorizes criminal convictions on the basis of character conformity and propensity. |
| 19-5553 | Angela Roy v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-13 | Denied | IFP | admissibility character-evidence circuit-split evidence-rule federal-rules federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-exception limits standards | Whether the widely criticized "inextricably intertwined" or "intrinsic evidence" family of exceptions to Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b) lack meaningf… |
| 18-9792 | Charles Mensah v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-06-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | character-evidence conspiracy due-process fifth-amendment severance witness-bolstering | 1) Does the trial court's refusal to grant a conspiracy defendant severance violate the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment when the Government'… |
| 18-9656 | In Re Lexter K. Kossie | 2019-06-17 | Denied | IFP | character-evidence character-witness constitutional-performance criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-evidence mitigation right-to-testify sentencing sentencing-phase | Can a trial counsel render constitutionally performance and not prejudice the defense by (1) proceeding to the sentencing trial 45 minutes after the j… | |
| 18-9505 | Antonio Parra Perez v. Texas | Texas | 2019-05-31 | Denied | IFP | character-evidence criminal-procedure due-process prior-bad-acts propensity-evidence sex-crimes unconstitutional-as-applied unfair-prejudice | 1. Is Texas Code of Criminal Procedure Article 38.37 §2 , which permits evidence of prior bad acts to prove the character and propensity of a defend… |
| 18-6880 | Jason A. Lenz v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-11-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | accidental-death character-evidence civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process expert-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jury-deadlock standing statutory-interpretation | Should a certificate of appealability issue in a Section 2254 proceeding where counsel learned directly from a juror that the jury had deadlocked 10-2… |
| 18-6588 | Lesley Eugene Warren v. Edward Thomas, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2018-11-06 | Denied | IFP | capital-punishment character-evidence circuit-split civil-rights death-penalty due-process future-dangerousness parole parole-ineligibility prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-procedure simmons-v-south-carolina | Is it an unreasonable application of Simmons v. South Carolina for a State court to deny a parole ineligibility instruction where the prosecution repe… |
| 18-6485 | Richard Elliott Cain v. Washington | Washington | 2018-10-29 | Denied | IFP | 6th-amendment character-evidence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-evidence due-process evidence fair-trial jury-instruction jury-instructions propensity-evidence search-warrant | WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT ERRED IN FAILING TO GIVE THE JURY A LIMITING INSTRUCTION AFTER PERMITTING CHARACTER AND PROPENSITY EVIDENCE TO BE INTRODUCED A… |
| 18-5605 | Robert S. Beyer, II v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-08-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | admissibility appellate-procedure bad-character-evidence character-evidence criminal-procedure de-novo-review due-process evidence-rules federal-rules-of-evidence presumption-of-admissibility rule-403 rule-404 sentencing-guidelines victim-vulnerability | 1. Do Fed R. Evid. Rules 403 and 404 create a presumption favoring admissibility of bad character evidence? 2. May the United States Courts of Appeal… |