confession-admissibility
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-5345 | Arturo Navarro-Zuniga v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-08-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confession-admissibility criminal-procedure law-review miranda-warning objective-effectiveness subjective-intent | In Missouri v. Seibert, 542 U.S. 600 (2004), the Court issued a fractured decision regarding "midstream Miranda warnings," i.e., when police question … |
| 25-5151 | J. Ines Ruiz-Rivera v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-07-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confession-admissibility criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error ninth-circuit supreme-court-precedent | Whether courts should follow the direction of Fulminante and use "extreme caution" before finding the admission of a confession is harmless error. |
| 24-6886 | Jonathan Lynn Jenkins v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-03-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review confession-admissibility criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence harmless-error jury-role | Whether an appellate court improperly displaces the jury's role to determine guilt by assuming error occurred when the district court improperly admit… |
| 24-6118 | Ezekiel Isiah Delgado v. Neil McDowell, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2024-12-12 | Denied | IFP | confession-admissibility criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process miranda-rights supreme-court-precedent | Delgado was convicted of two counts of first degree murder. In a published decision, the California Court of Appeal held that detectives violated then… |
| 23-1250 | Carlos Vega v. Terence B. Tekoh | Ninth Circuit | 2024-05-29 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | administration-of-justice circuit-split coerced-confessions confession-admissibility criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony fifth-amendment miranda-rights miranda-warning ninth-circuit | 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit erred by establishing—in conflict with the decisions of other circuits—a categorical rule requiring the admission of expe… |
| 22-5935 | Devon Miller v. Superintendent, Shawangunk Correctional Facility | Second Circuit | 2022-10-28 | Denied | IFP | confession-admissibility custodial-interrogation fifth-amendment miranda-v-arizona miranda-warnings police-interrogation police-interrogation-tactics self-incrimination two-step-interrogation voluntariness | The court first core constitutional holding in Miranda v. Arizona was to confirm that the Fith Amendment privilege serves to protect all persons in al… |
| 21-7964 | Estevan Saucedo v. California | California | 2022-05-24 | Denied | IFP | coerced-confession confession-admissibility constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule law-enforcement-conduct miranda-rights police-misconduct police-tactics | APPellovrV's Cov^feSSiov^ Adw*:i<iUle 5\v\ce H WcxS boAed illegal po^ce "tcxc+iCS?Ur\ ^ Wouj<J £>. d>ff e^ev-rf V^vdiCrf hir-e^cloed^ ln<X(l "fRe j|… |
| 21-6996 | Robert Stivers v. Illinois | Illinois | 2022-01-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights coerced-confession confession-admissibility constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process interrogation-procedure police-interrogation right-to-silence | Is a suspect's Constitutional Amendments V as well as XIV rights violated when a clear and unambiguous invocation to remain silent is ignored? Additio… |
| 21-5795 | Ethan Guillen v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-09-27 | Denied | Amici (1)IFP | circuit-split confession-admissibility constitutional-rights criminal-procedure interrogation-procedure law-enforcement-procedure miranda-warnings officer-intent question-first-interrogation seibert-v-missouri | In determining the admissibility of post-warning confessions given during question-first interrogations, should courts apply the Seibert plurality's o… |
| 20-5501 | Andrew Darvin Hersh v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. | Third Circuit | 2020-08-27 | Denied | IFP | ativan-influence confession-admissibility credibility-determination credibility-determinations due-process federal-court-review ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-confession non-custodial-confession state-court-findings state-court-review | Ground I. Does a 'non-custodial' confession uttered under the influence of the prescription drug, 'Ativan,' render a confession involuntary and inadmi… |
| 19-5244 | Larry David Davis v. Brian Daniel, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2019-07-19 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights confession-admissibility constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection evidence-tampering habeas-corpus sentencing standing trial-fairness | Does the Prosecutor assessment of Probable cause Standing alone meet the requirements of the Fourth Amendment and is it enough to Justify Pending tria… |