confession-evidence
6 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-710 | Daniel D. Basile, III v. Illinois | Illinois | 2025-01-03 | Denied | Response Waived | confession-evidence constitutional-amendments due-process grand-jury judicial-review prosecutorial-misconduct | Whether the Illinois Supreme Court's holding in this case weakens the shield function of the grand jury process by inappropriately altering the standa… |
| 23-5038 | Kurt Michaels v. Ron Davis, Warden, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-07-05 | Denied | Relisted (13)IFP | aggravating-evidence appellate-review capital-case confession confession-evidence cumulative-error harmless-error harmless-error-analysis jury-deliberation jury-deliberations ninth-circuit-review | Whether a court reviewing a cold record in a capital case may determine that the effect of an erroneously admitted confession and other improper aggra… |
| 21-6954 | Robert Jurado v. Ronald Davis, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2022-01-25 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment 8th-amendment capital-punishment confession-evidence constitutional-amendments double-jeopardy mitigating-evidence ninth-circuit-review penalty-phase plea-bargaining skipper-standard | 1. Did the Ninth Circuit err in concluding that the California Supreme Court did not unreasonably apply federal law or unreasonably determine facts in… |
| 21-6285 | Gary Hughbanks v. Tim Shoop, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2021-11-17 | Denied | IFP | admissibility-of-evidence appellate-review brady-materiality brady-v-maryland confession-evidence criminal-procedure due-process materiality-analysis sixth-circuit suppressed-evidence | Are another individual's repeated statements confessing to the murders for which the defendant is on trial material for purpose of assessing the impac… |
| 19-8581 | Marlon Deon Harmon v. Tommy Sharp, Warden | Tenth Circuit | 2020-06-02 | Denied | IFP | brady-v-maryland brady-violation brecht-standard brecht-v-abrahamson confession confession-evidence constitutional-error death-penalty habeas-corpus mitigating-evidence sentencing | Should this Court provide uniform guidance to federal courts in their analyses under Brecht v. Abrahamson when the harm caused in the admission of an … |
| 18-6203 | Larry Hayes v. Marvin Plumley, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2018-10-03 | Denied | IFP | 5th-amendment confession-evidence criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process false-confession miranda-rights miranda-waiver miranda-warning police-conduct police-interrogation voluntariness | First, what constitutes a promise of leniency that destroys the voluntariness of a subsequent confession? Second, given what we now know about the pre… |