co-defendant-testimony
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-6961 | Stephen J. Pierre-Paul v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-04-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | co-defendant-testimony consciousness-of-guilt cooperating-witness probative-value reasonable-doubt sentencing-enhancement | Due Process requires a criminal conviction be obtained by proof beyond a reasonable doubt. Cooperating witness testimony is admissible evidence, thoug… |
| 19-6848 | Robert Matthew Wittal v. Montana | Montana | 2019-12-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | co-defendant-testimony credibility criminal-procedure criminal-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions legal-objection sixth-amendment witness-credibility | The states key witnesses at a homicide trial were three charged co-defendants. Petitioner's defense rested upon undermining the credibility of the c… |
| 19-5667 | John J. Blodgett v. Erin Gaffney, Superintendent, Old Colony Correctional Center | First Circuit | 2019-08-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence brady-issue brady-violation certificate-of-appealability co-defendant co-defendant-statements co-defendant-testimony confrontation-clause due-process first-circuit-court habeas-corpus | Did the First Circuit err by refusing to entertain Blodgett's two meritorious issues, and shut out the possibility of certificate of appealability; WH… |
| 18-7400 | Damion Sleugh v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-01-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review co-defendant-testimony criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence fifth-amendment first-amendment impeachment impeachment-evidence witness-credibility | Does the need for sealing a co-defendant's subpoena applications end once the co-defendant changes his plea and testifies for the Government at trial?… |
| 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… |