confrontation-clause
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6843 | Ron Delano Kuntz v. United States | Third Circuit | 2026-02-18 | Pending | IFP | appellate-review confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing witness-testimony | 1) Whether tte District Court exclusion of an material witness testimony was reasonable especially being a mariner of the Court and then depending up… |
| 25-950 | Mark Hartman v. Dave Yost, Attorney General of Ohio | Sixth Circuit | 2026-02-10 | Pending | appellate-review certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause constitutional-error due-process sixth-amendment | I Did the Sixth Circuit err when it reversed the district court's grant of the writ based on ineffective assistance of counsel during cross-examinatio… | |
| 25-939 | James Garfield Broadnax v. Texas | Texas | 2026-02-06 | Pending | confrontation-clause due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment | 1. Whether the State's use in a capital sentencing proceeding of rap lyrics composed by a Black defendant to argue to a nearly all-White jury that the… | |
| 25A858 | Dawn Marie Guevara v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2026-01-30 | Application | confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure evidence-admission harmless-error sixth-amendment | Question not identified. | |
| 25A850 | Jeffrey Dale Busby v. Mississippi | Mississippi | 2026-01-28 | Application | confrontation-clause constitutional-error expert-testimony forensic-evidence smith-v-arizona technical-reviewer | Question not identified. | |
| 25-6670 | Charles Victor Thompson v. Texas | Texas | 2026-01-27 | Denied | IFP | autopsy-report confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process medical-evidence sixth-amendment | Did the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals err when it failed to apply this Court's holdings in Smith v. Arizona, 602 U.S. __ (2024) and Crawford v. Wash… |
| 25-6612 | Qing Han v. Joseph Auto Service Inc. | Texas | 2026-01-16 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review confrontation-clause documentary-evidence exhibit-admission notary-interpretation pro-se | Whether the Court of Appeals permits an appellate court to give a notice of judgment on the theory that a prose, interpreter-assisted litigant never o… |
| 25-6560 | Tony Daniel Klein v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2026-01-13 | Pending | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-defense criminal-procedure evidence-exclusion sixth-amendment witness-bias | Does a court violate a criminal defendant's constitutional right to present a defense by excluding the strongest evidence supporting the sole theory o… |
| 25A758 | Sean Paul Baker v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-12-31 | Application | confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure evidence-rule-412 sexual-abuse witness-credibility | Question not identified. | |
| 25A705 | Charles Albert Massey v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Fourth Circuit | 2025-12-17 | Application | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination hearsay-evidence preliminary-hearing sixth-amendment | Question not identified. | |
| 25-689 | George Sharrod Johns v. Georgia | Georgia | 2025-12-12 | Pending | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse Waived | autopsy confrontation-clause criminal-procedure hearsay sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence | A forensic pathologist who performed an autopsy on a homicide victim was unavailable for trial. In her place, the State of Georgia offered testimony b… |
| 25A656 | Brandon Z. Miller v. United States | Armed Forces | 2025-12-04 | Application | confrontation-clause military-evidence-rule presley-v-georgia public-trial sixth-amendment waller-v-georgia | Question not identified. | |
| 25-6173 | Charles Jason Carmichael v. South Carolina | South Carolina | 2025-11-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process hearsay-testimony trial-error | X. 4^ $ X. S-t-M-j-e $ Cot>r4 e^cej4 no4 nj v^UoX^ e'r 4\i€ 4r<c<l Coucf errcA in cv<Jvn.44->n« He +es4>'w,otnj cl"' <1 vJifnesS Q.C. , ^kex-fc -He c… |
| 25-6168 | Carl Rose v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-11-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process hearsay-evidence revocation-hearing supervised-release | Whether the Due Process Clause and Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 32.1(b)(2)(C) require a district court, before admitting hearsay at a supervised… |
| 25-6163 | Terrance Deshun Cash v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-11-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment hearsay sixth-amendment | Petitioner Cash contend that his constitutional rights was violated be fore the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals due to the stated facts raised beforet… |
| 25-6000 | Demeccio Caston v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2025-10-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause crawford-rule criminal-procedure due-process hearsay testimonial-evidence | Whether permitting a detective to testify to unconfronted, testimonial hearsay statements that directly inculpate a defendant statements, made by witn… |
| 25-5996 | Jean-Michael Kisi v. Joseph Joyce, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2025-10-30 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-deliberation sixth-amendment | I. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT EXCLUDING THE PETITIONER FROM THE COURTROOM WHEN PERSONS DISPLAYED THE STATE 'S LAPTOP IN THE DELIBERATION ROOM AND A … |
| 25-512 | Jibril Adamu v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-10-24 | Pending | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure drug-trafficking extraterritorial-application sixth-amendment testimonial-hearsay | 1. Whether the crime of possession with intent to distribute under 21 U.S.C. §959(c)(2) applies extraterritorially. 2. Whether a non-testifying analy… | |
| 25A460 | George Sharrod Johns v. Georgia | Georgia | 2025-10-22 | Presumed Complete | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure expert-testimony forensic-pathology sixth-amendment testimonial-statements | Question not identified. | |
| 25-5908 | Jean-Claude Okongo Landji v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-10-17 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split confrontation-clause conspiracy controlled-substances extraterritorial-prosecution sixth-amendment | 1. May the offense of conspiracy to distribute or possess with intent to distribute controlled substances while on a United States aircraft, pursuant … |
| 25A444 | Bernard Kentrell Breeland, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-10-17 | Presumed Complete | bruen-framework confrontation-clause criminal-procedure felon-in-possession lay-opinion-testimony second-amendment | Question not identified. | |
| 25-336 | Elsie Franklin v. Kentucky | Kentucky | 2025-09-23 | Denied | adequate-opportunity confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination evidence-standard prior-testimony | In Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36 (2004), this Court held that, under the Confrontation Clause, an unavailable witness's prior testimony "is admi… | |
| 25A290 | Christopher Matthew Henderson v. Alabama | Alabama | 2025-09-12 | Presumed Complete | authentication capital-murder confrontation-clause evidentiary-authentication protection-order service-of-process | Question not identified. | |
| 25-290 | Christopher Odeku v. Texas | Texas | 2025-09-12 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | confrontation-clause constitutional-law nurse-examiner sexual-assault sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence | Are a complainant's statements to a sexual assault nurse examiner (SANE) testimonial for purposes of the Sixth Amendment's Confrontation Clause? |
| 25-288 | Vinaykumar Patel v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-09-11 | Denied | Response Waived | confrontation-clause federal-rules-of-evidence fifth-amendment hearsay-evidence law-enforcement-testimony sixth-amendment | 1. Whether the introduction of speculative lay opinion by a law enforcement officer, asserting a staged robbery without personal knowledge or expert… |
| 25-5556 | Louis Age, Jr. and Ronald Wilson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-09-04 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | business-record confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence-authentication hearsay-exception | 1. Whether the Confrontation Clause permits the prosecution in a criminal trial to present to the jury, in lieu of live testimony and over defense obj… |
| 25-5539 | Louis Age, III v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-09-03 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit-review rule-404b sufficiency-of-evidence | I. Did the Fifth Circuit erroneously apply federal law in finding that the evidence at trial was sufficient to establish the crimes beyond a reasonabl… |
| 25A239 | Demeccio Caston v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2025-08-29 | Presumed Complete | confrontation-clause crawford-precedent criminal-procedure hearsay sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence | In Petitioner's case, the Louisiana Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals announced a change in prior law that inculpatory hearsay statements made by witnes… | |
| 25-231 | Jon Wynn Jarrard, Sr. v. Wilfredo Martell, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2025-08-28 | Denied | Response Waived | confrontation-clause due-process false-testimony fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment | 1. Was the conviction obtained through the use of what the Solicitor knew, or should have known to be false testimony, and did the Solicitor fail to c… |
| 25-5459 | Robert Keith Woodall v. Kentucky | Kentucky | 2025-08-25 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | confrontation-clause death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intellectual-disability | The Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments forbid the execution of persons with intellectual disability. Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304, 321 (2002). Perso… |
| 25-5426 | Reginald Bertram Johnson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-08-22 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review confrontation-clause constitutional-rights fair-trial sixth-amendment trial-court | The following question stems from the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals' Published Opinion regarding claims asserted by Mr. Johnson. 1. Whether the U… |
| 25-5278 | Reynaldo Alberto Peña v. Texas | Texas | 2025-08-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | compulsory-process confrontation-clause due-process fourteenth-amendment polygraph-evidence sixth-amendment | If a Trial Court admitted into evidence inculpatory statements made by a defendant during the post-interview portion of a polygraph examination, but e… |
| 25-5267 | Antonio B. Nascimento-Depina v. Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 2025-08-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review confrontation-clause due-process forensic-evidence harmless-error jury-determination | Whether, after a state supreme court expressly acknowledging that admitting surrogate DNA-analyst testimony violated the Sixth Amendment Confrontation… |
| 25-5204 | Mario Onesimo Gonzalez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-07-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure drug-evidence expert-testimony hearsay sixth-amendment | Whether a drug value "expert" contravenes the Confrontation Clause and Smith v. Arizona, 602 U.S. 779 (2024), when her testimony about the value of dr… |
| 25-5173 | Douglas Dean Welsh v. Bobbi Salamon, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. | Third Circuit | 2025-07-22 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-violation cross-examination due-process ineffective-assistance search-warrant | A. DID THE DISTRICT COURT ERROR IN RULING THAT PETITIONER'S FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS, AND SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO CONFRONTATION WAS… |
| 25-5171 | Reginald Hitchcock v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-07-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing hearsay-evidence sixth-amendment | 1. whether The Person's Who Supplied The Hearsay Statement That Amounted to Probable Cause En A Affidavit ov Search Warrant Need To Be Reliable © 2. … |
| 25-5095 | Patrick D. Reed v. George A. Fredrick, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2025-07-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus out-of-court-statements | Whether, as three circuits hold in conflict with the Sixth Circuit, clearly established law prohibits an officer's testimony about an absent declarant… |
| 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… |
| 24-7285 | Kirk Powell v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2025-05-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | co-defendant-statements confrontation-clause due-process fifth-amendment misjoinder sixth-amendment | 1. Where the trial of eleven counts of a fourteen count indictment against five defendants was based on circumstantial evidence, requiring over twenty… |
| 24-7252 | Issa L. Lamizana, Jr. v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2025-05-20 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6)IFP | confrontation-clause due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-verdict ramos-unanimity sixth-amendment | 1. In a challeng e under Ramos v. Louisiana 590 U.S. 83, 140 S. Ct. 1390, 206 L. Ed. 2d 583 (2020), where the record is silent as to the votes on the … |
| 24-1159 | Jeffrey Clyde Pitts v. Mississippi | Mississippi | 2025-05-13 | Judgment Issued | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8) | child-witness confrontation-clause constitutional-rights courtroom-screening criminal-procedure trial-procedure | Whether the Confrontation Clause permits the use of a screen at trial that blocks a child witness's view of the defendant, without any individualized … |
| 24-7139 | David Little v. Georgia | Georgia | 2025-05-06 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process hearsay sixth-amendment | A Whether the Trial Court violated Sixth Amendment Right to Confrontation by Admitting the deceased Neg wiehad" diary— Which Contained testimonial Sta… |
| 24-7129 | Frank John Richard v. O'Bell T. Winn, Warden, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2025-05-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure confrontation-clause equal-protection fourteenth-amendment initial-disclosure pro-se-litigant | 1. ) Does Fed. R. Civ. P. Rule 26 (a)(1)( B)(iv.) deny Initial Disclosure to incarcerated, pro se litigants, simply because they are not represented b… |
| 24-7054 | Oscar J. Martinez-Hernandez v. United States | First Circuit | 2025-04-22 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split confrontation-clause due-process federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay-evidence sixth-amendment | I. WHETHER ADMISSION OF UNCORROBORATED HEARSAY UNDER FEDERAL RULE OF EVIDENCE 801(D)(2)(E), WITHOUT INDEPENDENT PROOF OF A CONSPIRACY OR EXTRINSIC COR… |
| 24-1082 | Aghee William Smith, II v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-04-16 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | confrontation-clause constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process trial-rights witness-unavailability | The courts are split on a critical question: Whether a living witness can be "unavailable" under the Confrontation Clause if the government has made n… |
| 24-7000 | Avery B. Crawford v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2025-04-15 | Denied | IFP | certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus self-representation | Whether the Fifth Circuit failed or abandoned it's Constitutional duty to review Mr. Crawford's Certificate of Appea ;ability (COA) process, because h… |
| 24-6990 | Abdul Kilgore v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-04-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause hearsay-evidence procedural-reasonableness sentencing sixth-amendment supervised-release | 1. Whether the district court's reliance on hearsay evidence, including a complaining witness's video statement and photographic evidence, in a superv… |
| 24-6950 | Daontae T. Scott v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-04-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment | (1) DOES TRIAL COUNSEL'S FAILURE TO INVESTIGATE, PROCURE EXCULPATORY EVIDENCE (SECURITY CAMERA FOOTAGE), OTHER INFORMATION FROM THE LOCATION CRIME SCE… |
| 24-985 | Ohio v. Garry Smith | Ohio | 2025-03-14 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process emergency-doctrine hearsay-exception testimonial-statements | Because the Confrontation Clause affords criminal defendants the right during trial "to be confronted with the witnesses against " them , is the initi… |
| 24-937 | Miguel Adan Cayetano v. Texas | Texas | 2025-03-03 | Denied | confrontation-clause constitutional-violations due-process fraud-on-court prosecutorial-misconduct supreme-court-authority | 1. Since the District Attorney/State orchestrated fraud with (4) four witnesses assuring the Elements of the Crime were buttressed so that the jury wo… | |
| 24-6643 | Mark Douglas Huber v. Randy Valley, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2025-02-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel | Whether the Court of Appeals egregiously misapplied this Court's standard for issuing a certificate of appealability in the face of a substantial show… |
| 24-6641 | Chad Adam Cheever v. Oregon | Oregon | 2025-02-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial law-enforcement-misconduct | 1. Does holding a position with the local executive branch of government , be it, prosecutors, detectives, or sheriff automatically give them permis… |
| 24-6626 | Stanford Wall v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-02-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-law criminal-procedure cross-examination evidence-law witness-credibility | Whether, consistent with the Confrontation Clause, courts must apply a presumption favoring cross-examination of a government witness's general charac… |
| 24-6469 | Ramien Collins v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-02-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process right-to-counsel sixth-amendment | Did the appellate commit reversible err denying Petitioner's direct appeal on the issue where the district court allowed the admission of chemical ana… |
| 24-6460 | Jonathan Mason v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2025-02-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bias-testimony confrontation-clause role-facilitation sentencing-hearing sixth-amendment witness-testimony | Can a bias witness testimony, made during a bench trial in an unrelated case be admitted for its truth at Petitioner's sentencing hearing, to support… |
| 24-6422 | In Re Terry Lee Jackson, Sr. | 2025-01-29 | Denied | IFP | access-to-courts confrontation-clause constitutional-rights federal-defender habeas-corpus writ-of-certiorari | Was Petitioner denied his constitutional right of access to the courts where the federal defender refused to file or assist in the filing of a Petitio… | |
| 24-6389 | Kalontae Carter, aka Kelontae Carter v. Doug Luneke, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2025-01-24 | Denied | IFP | accomplice-testimony confrontation-clause criminal-procedure out-of-court-statements sixth-amendment testimonial-statements | I. Whether the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment prohibits the introduction and use of statements made by a non-testifying accomplice which … |
| 24-6379 | Lamar Reese v. Ohio | Ohio | 2025-01-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-review due-process evidence-admissibility polygraph-evidence scientific-evidence | itie Cause Involves cl SubstartlaJ Const ?tust,ona. I guest ?o n pursuant to Article Wi, Section Cl (8)( jz)£cl)(j') °ftbe °h?o Constltu-hlon, omd fun… |
| 24A713 | Matthew Lee Flowers v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2025-01-22 | Presumed Complete | confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment trial-counsel | Question not identified. | |
| 24-6300 | Pablo Gutierrez v. Florida | Florida | 2025-01-14 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment interpreter-rights sixth-amendment | The trial court recognized Mr. Gutierrez only spoke Spanish and appointed an interpreter for him —but the interpreter was prohibited from translating … |
| 24-6201 | Christopher Jeorge Millican v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-12-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure hearsay search-warrant sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence | Whether the Confrontation Clause allows the admission at trial—without confrontation of the declarant—of documents created in response to a search war… |
| 24-6194 | Donald E. Deardorff v. Terry Raybon, Warden | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-12-26 | Denied | IFP | capital-murder circumstantial-evidence confrontation-clause habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance strickland-standard | Either Donald Deardorff or Millard Peacock committed capital murder by killing Ted Turner while robbing, burgling, and kidnapping him—the other was gu… |
| 24A608 | Miguel Adan Cayetano v. Texas | Texas | 2024-12-19 | Presumed Complete | confrontation-clause due-process fourteenth-amendment medical-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment | Question not identified. | |
| 24-6101 | Halim Khan v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-12-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-prosecution due-process interpreter-testimony sixth-amendment testimonial-statements | Whether translated out-of-court testimonial statements may be admitted by the Government as evidence against a defendant without providing the defenda… |
| 24-5921 | Christopher Koteras v. Daniel Akers, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2024-11-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure evidentiary-hearing judicial-discretion sixth-amendment witness-communication | When the interaction between the Prosecution's Victim's Advocate and a testifying witness has been determined by the trial court to have enhanced the … |
| 24-5913 | Lili Zhang Tydingco v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-11-05 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | alien-harboring-act confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-prosecution cross-examination testimonial-statements | 1. Whether translated out-of-court testimonial statements may be admitted by the Government as evidence against a defendant without providing the defe… |
| 24-5824 | Oscar Alvarado v. Ken Hollibaugh, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset, et al. | Third Circuit | 2024-10-25 | Denied | IFP | certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause harmless-error ineffective-counsel rule-60b1 sixth-amendment | DID THE COURT OF APPEALS COMMIT LEGAL ERROR IN DENYING PETITIONER'S CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY STATING THAT NO JURIST OF REASON WOULD NOT DEBATE THE… |
| 24-5635 | Kim Bowers v. Payson City, Utah | Utah | 2024-09-25 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure defendant-presence due-process sixth-amendment trial-rights | Question not identified. |
| 24-330 | Cid C. Franklin v. New York | New York | 2024-09-24 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9) | bail-report confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination sixth-amendment testimonial-statements | 1. Whether the Sixth Amendment's Confrontation Clause applies to out-of-court statements admitted as evidence against criminal defendants if, and only… |
| 24-5608 | Jason Smith v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-09-23 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure recognizance-forfeiture sixth-amendment supervised-release | Historical documents showing that the Framers would have understood the jury right to apply to forfeitures of recognizance, a proceeding similar to re… |
| 24-5589 | In Re Joseph G. Aulisio | 2024-09-20 | Denied | IFP | cause-and-prejudice confrontation-clause due-process eighth-amendment false-testimony prosecutorial-misconduct | 1. Is it Prosecutorial Misconduct and Complicity in Perjury when a Prosecutor Concedes during closing argument.a; critical material witnesses testim… | |
| 24A276 | Manuel Enrique Yates v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-09-18 | Presumed Complete | confrontation-clause fourth-amendment pro-se search-and-seizure sixth-amendment venue | (1) The confrontation clause under the Sixth Amendment of the United States Constitution; (2) Venue also listed under the Sixth Amendment of the Unit… | |
| 24-5544 | Evan Wald v. New York | New York | 2024-09-13 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | autopsy-report confrontation-clause crawford-standard criminal-procedure homicide-investigation testimonial-evidence | Whether a certified autopsy report—created as part of a homicide investigation and asserting that the cause of death was homicide—is "testimonial" und… |
| 24-5534 | Anthony Wayne Hawkins v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-09-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause cooperating-witness due-process law-enforcement-database pretextual-stop witness-bias | (1) Whether and to what extent the Confrontation Clause of the 6th Amendment should contain the right to address the amount of a benefit that a co-ope… |
| 24-271 | Jerry Arnold Westrom v. Minnesota | Minnesota | 2024-09-10 | Denied | Response Waived | confrontation-clause effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-amendment reasonable-expectation-of-privacy shed-dna sixth-amendment | A. Whether society is prepared to recognize a reasonable expectation of privacy under the Fourth Amendment in an individual's shed DNA, as evidenced b… |
| 24-5440 | Edward Moses, Jr. v. Louisiana Office of Disciplinary Counsel | Louisiana | 2024-09-04 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | attorney-discipline confrontation-clause due-process judicial-procedure legal-ethics professional-misconduct | Is "Emperor Moses " the real party in interest entitled to an injunction barring the state officials from operating within the Atakapa Indian Nation1.… |
| 24-5430 | Christopher J. Thorpe v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-08-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus sexual-battery sixth-amendment | Whether – pursuant to this Court's holding in Hemphill v. New York, 595 U.S. 140 (2022) – the Petitioner's constitutional right of confrontation was v… |
| 24-5411 | Mario Chavez v. Carlos Lazarin, Warden, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2024-08-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process hearsay-evidence sixth-amendment | CWc\ dee^ved \V ^nx.&£M *Vo " Woo/e, W avooVWercicty (Mx{ ^Ejcjt\ V ^©V\ wJdt gk (xw^reWstve <taW-XA\'cyv. oV'WW aac>uac\\ , ydW^A- vV dW'f (AAdvA.^… |
| 24A193 | Eloy Heraclio Alcala v. Texas | Texas | 2024-08-22 | Presumed Complete | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination exclusionary-rule motion-to-suppress sixth-amendment | Question not identified. | |
| 24-5320 | Ahkemon J. Bardell v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2024-08-14 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-defense due-process fourteenth-amendment trial-procedure | I. WAS THE LOUISIANA SUPREME COURT IN ERROR, FOR FAILING TO CORRECT THE APPELLATE COURTS FAILURE TO CORRECT A CONFRONTATIONAL VIOLATION THAT TRANSPIRE… |
| 24A172 | Evan Wald v. New York | New York | 2024-08-13 | Presumed Complete | autopsy-report confrontation-clause criminal-evidence cross-examination sixth-amendment testimonial-hearsay | Whether an autopsy report created in conjunction with a homicide investigation and finding the cause of death to be a homicide is "testimonial" under … | |
| 24-5216 | Ricky Mendoza v. William Sullivan, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2024-08-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process habeas-corpus habeas-relief harmless-error sixth-amendment witness-testimony | Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in denying habeas relief on petitioner's claim that the state trial court deprived him of his Sixth Amendment right to… |
| 24-121 | John Won v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-08-02 | Denied | Amici (1) | confrontation-clause constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process evidence exceptional-circumstances interest-of-justice sixth-amendment two-way-video video-testimony | Whether the Confrontation Clause contains an exception that permits the government to present testimony at a criminal trial by two-way video so long a… |
| 24-5118 | Jared Holton Seavey v. Texas | Texas | 2024-07-19 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony medical-examiner precedent remand sixth-amendment | I. Where the State used a surrogate medical examiner to opine as to the cause of death in a murder trial, should the Court GVR this matter in light of… |
| 24-5111 | Amadi Sosa v. Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 2024-07-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof confrontation-clause constructive-malice cross-examination due-process felony-murder perjury-protocol sixth-amendment winship-fact | 1. In a joint trial on a joint venture murder charge, the trial judge implemented a state protocol that enabled one co-defendant to give perjured test… |
| 24-5086 | Isaias Delgado v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-07-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial federal-law federal-sentencing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel self-incrimination | I. Whether The Government Violated Mr. Delgado's Right to Due Process and a Fair Trial by Withholding Evidence? II. Whether The Improper Admission of… |
| 24A38 | Cid C. Franklin v. New York | New York | 2024-07-12 | Presumed Complete | bail-hearing confrontation-clause criminal-procedure evidence-admission sixth-amendment testimonial-statement | 1. This case raises the fundamental question of when a statement is "testimonial" and thus subject to the Sixth Amendment's Confrontation Clause. See … | |
| 24-5055 | Tre'veon Demarcus Anderson v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2024-07-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-rights douglas-v-alabama due-process fifth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct self-incrimination sixth-amendment sixth-and-fourteenth-amendments | The State knew Mr. Lawrence Guydel l Pierre, an admi tted pri ncipal to Ms. Chateri Payne's murder and an al leged co-conspi rator, woul d invoke hi s… |
| 24-23 | Michael Bassem Rimlawi v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-07-09 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) | certiorari confrontation-clause constitutional-error error-based-approach guilt-based-approach harmless-error sixth-amendment | I. On the important question of how courts are to decide whether constitutional error is harmless, this Court has, since 1967, given inconsistent and … |
| 24-5029 | Jurgen Marku v. Florida | Florida | 2024-07-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | Bruton-v-United-States Codefendant confrontation-clause criminal-prosecution Cross-Examination Due-Process felony-murder fourteenth-amendment Guilty-Plea sixth-amendment | Whether it is a violation of a criminal defendant's Confrontation Clause and Due Process Clause rights to allow the prosecution to inform the jury tha… |
| 24-5004 | Joshua Mounts v. Ohio | Ohio | 2024-07-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony expert-witnesses nazi-comparison personal-attacks prosecutorial-misconduct | Whether violations of the United States Constitution occur where defense experts are not allowed to respond to criticism of their expert reports and w… |
| 23-7848 | In Re Lyle R. Harrison | 2024-07-02 | Dismissed | IFP | civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process inheritance-rights judicial-misconduct police-reports probate-law speedy-trial | 1. Whether due process allows the Denial of all Unredacted Police Reports by; Judge Richard L. Broch, Judge Jeremy J. Richey, Prosecutor Luke McNeill,… | |
| 23-7803 | Michael Sean Graham v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-06-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation confrontation-clause covid-19-restrictions due-process fifth-amendment public-interest sars-cov-2 sixth-amendment trial-procedure | 1. By denying relief, did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals err in holding that the masking of trial witnesses was not a violation of defendant's Fif… |
| 23-7782 | Jake Paul Heiney v. Heidi E. Washington | Sixth Circuit | 2024-06-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-violations certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause cross-examination-limitations expert-witness habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sufficiency-of-evidence | 1. To convict, the statute required the medical provider to be engaging in "sexual contact " which was "medically recognized as unethical or unaccepta… |
| 23-7774 | Pablo Santana Arellano v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-06-21 | Denied | IFP | co-conspirator-testimony co-conspirators confrontation-clause confrontation-rights criminal-procedure sentencing-agreements sixth-amendment witness-bias | Whether, under the Sixth Amendment to the United State Constitution, defendants may be prohibited from asking cooperating witnesses, and former co-con… |
| 23-7711 | Philong Nghia Huynh v. J. Lizarraga | Ninth Circuit | 2024-06-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure criminal-trial forensic-nurse sixth-amendment surrogate-nurse surrogate-testimony testimonial-statements testimony | Whether the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment permits the prosecution in a criminal trial to present testimony by a surrogate nurse conveyin… |
| 23-7717 | Ledra A. Craig v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-06-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | compulsory-process confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rights cross-examination due-process right-to-counsel right-to-cross-examine | 1. Can a Defendawts Conwetion be Sustained and impermissiby Prediedted on a defendants Uncorroborated statements ta Laterragition oF Ficers. * oes th… |
| 23-1287 | Ian Brenner v. Randy Irwin, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Forest, et al. | Third Circuit | 2024-06-10 | Denied | Response Waived | certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure confrontation-clause consent due-process ineffective-assistance jurisdiction magistrate magistrate-jurisdiction standing strickland-standard surrogate-expert | a. Whether denial of a Certificate of Appealability is proper when the magistrate judge who entered judgment lacked jurisdiction because the Petitione… |
| 23-7665 | Kenneth Oteng Duodu v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Fourth Circuit | 2024-06-07 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | article-vi confrontation-clause constitutional-rights consular-notification criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus international-obligations vienna-convention | Question not identified. |
| 23-7672 | Andrew Culler v. Ohio | Ohio | 2024-06-07 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause due-process medical-examination sexual-assault sixth-amendment testimonial-hearsay victim-statements | The admission of testimonial hearsay violates the Sixth Amendment's Confrontation Clause. In this case, the medical/sexual assault nurse's examination… |
| 23-7592 | Ynedra Diggs v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-05-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bruton-rule bruton-v-united-states co-defendant-statements confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fifth-amendment fifth-circuit testimonial-evidence testimonial-statements unavailable-witnesses | WAS MS. DIGGS'S CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO CONFRONTATION VIOLATED WHEN THE DISTRICT COURT ADMITTED RECORDED STATEMENTS OF UNAVAILABLE CODEFENDANTS INTO E… |
| 23A1069 | Michael Bassem Rimlawi v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-05-30 | Presumed Complete | bruton-rule codefendant-statement confrontation-clause constitutional-error harmless-error sixth-amendment | Question not identified. | |
| 23-1249 | Timothy Patrick Guilfoy v. Brandon Watwood, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2024-05-29 | Denied | Response Waived | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus jury-misconduct right-to-confront testimonial-evidence | After a first trial resulted in a hung jury, Petitioner was retried and ultimately convicted of sexual assault. Suspecting foul play during trial, def… |
| 23-7545 | Bobby Tatum v. Darren Galloway, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2024-05-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence child-victim-testimony civil-rights confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel video-evidence | 1) Whether it's Proper For the District court to Tawed and Cove ANd CaiWote-to Growed Pex Alors 40 Goppgrts Me Chem & GAC Facroul Lonocences and déry … |
| 23-1181 | Gail M. Ritchey v. Ohio | Ohio | 2024-05-01 | Denied | Amici (1) | autopsy-report confrontation-clause criminal-investigation criminal-procedure evidence hearsay-evidence medical-examiner medical-examiner-testimony sixth-amendment | Does the admission of an autopsy report and testimony from a doctor who neither participated in the autopsy nor prepared the report violate the Sixth … |
| 23A972 | Benjamin Biancofiori v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-05-01 | Presumed Complete | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility hearsay-exception sex-trafficking sixth-amendment | Question not identified. | |
| 23-7326 | Erik Johnson v. Patrick Griffin | Second Circuit | 2024-04-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence hearsay hearsay-evidence missing-witness missing-witness-instruction testimonial-statement | Whether the admission into evidence, through the testimony of decedent's 10-year-old daughter, of hearsay statements allegedly made by the decedent to… |
| 23A936 | Antoine D. Craig v. Illinois | Illinois | 2024-04-18 | Presumed Complete | business-records cell-phone-records confrontation-clause due-process evidence-authentication murder-trial | Question not identified. | |
| 23-1091 | Call-A-Head Portable Toilets, Inc., et al. v. New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, et al. | New York | 2024-04-08 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-law administrative-proceeding confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence sixth-amendment witness-testimony | Do the accused in State administrative proceedings have a Sixth Amendment right to confront and cross-examine witnesses whose written testimony serves… |
| 23-7150 | Elana Gordon v. Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 2024-04-05 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure criminal-trial expert-testimony expert-witness forensic-evidence forensic-testimony right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-counsel | 1. Whether the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment permits the prosecution in a criminal trial to present testimony by a substitute forensic e… |
| 23-7089 | Steven L. Lewis v. Mississippi | Mississippi | 2024-03-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process improper-venue mistrial retrial speedy-trial venue | *Whether the Constitution Permits the retrial of a defendant following a trial in an in Pro Per venue Whether the Constitution Permits the retrial of… |
| 23-7078 | Jeffery Wayne Taylor v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-03-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure criminal-trial cross-examination due-process evidence first-step-act out-of-court-statements sixth-amendment | I. IS IT A VIOLATION OF THE CONFRONTATION CLAUSE WHEN EXERCISING OUT'S RIGHT TO TRIAL, THAT AN OUT-OF-COURT STATEMENT CONNECTING THE DEFENDANT DIRECTL… |
| 23-7025 | Stevie Wyre v. Texas | Texas | 2024-03-19 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review confrontation-clause constitutional-violation due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure record-examination right-to-counsel standard-of-review state-court | >), \be p>wjo4a\ c^uesViOk , u^oeVoe^ %xe 3tote>' defied &ppe\\ftd VixS ~T)ue ^V\2.oc£SS > Vv5bao iV p^£Sso\ed ^s\g ao, rftxsYeftdi'o^ 4e^Vi*Y)0O{j … |
| 23-6952 | Frantz Brifil v. Florida | Florida | 2024-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-law crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-law hearsay out-of-court-statements sixth-amendment witness-testimony | WHETHER THE STATE COURT VIOLATED THE MANDATE OF CRAWFORD AND PROGENY BY INTRODUCING A NON TESTIFYING WITNESS'S OUT-OF-COURT STATEMENTS? |
| 23-6956 | David Wilbanks v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2024-03-11 | Denied | IFP | collateral-order-doctrine confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-sentencing due-process final-judgment fourteenth-amendment judicial-review jurisdiction sixth-amendment statutory-construction | Wwl £x/er Wt CJ3A CctrViflca^€_ .cf . ciO{)ta\a\jo\\A^ ] uoVxoa TdWr r i cA <d\ud^»£_ l&LKeA do or cdejnM o (jOA \a -VW AoA&me\/d vind^r fed. 12.. H … |
| 23-6887 | Brenda B. v. Tennessee Department of Children's Services | Tennessee | 2024-03-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment confrontation-clause confrontation-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-credibility hearsay-rules witness-credibility witness-testimony | *Tb \ not have (X nc\v\V to Confront a\\ alltcjfd voi+ness? • v^o \ not have a rio^t Vo ut o\\ alleged axdwee? •D«\V I hcux, a dtjVfr to Q full and Pa… |
| 23A794 | Gail M. Ritchey v. Ohio | Ohio | 2024-02-27 | Presumed Complete | confrontation-clause constitutional-criminal-procedure coroner's-report evidence-admissibility hearsay sixth-amendment | Question not identified. | |
| 23-6795 | Gregory Taylor v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-02-21 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure evidence expert-testimony hearsay laboratory-evidence laboratory-tests sixth-amendment | Whether the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment is satisfied when an expert witness provides opinion testimony that is based on data from labo… |
| 23-6756 | Kenneth J. Coleman v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-02-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | competency-hearing confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-competency pate-v-robinson plea-agreement | 1). Is the petitioner constitutionally entitled to a hearing upon the issue of his competency to stand trial. Was the petitioner tried, convicted and… |
| 23-6763 | Armani L. Moore v. Illinois | Illinois | 2024-02-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure evidence evidence-law memory-loss sixth-amendment testimonial-hearsay unavailable-witness witness-unavailability | Whether a declarant is "unavailable to testify" for purposes of the Sixth Amendment, and as that phrase is used in Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36… |
| 23-6741 | Gerardo Ortiz v. Jeff Macomber, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation | Ninth Circuit | 2024-02-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause due-process fair-trial fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-confront witness-testimony | The prosecutor wrongly informed the complaining witness, Monica Doe, that she had a right to refuse to testify. At trial, she exercised that purported… |
| 23-6711 | Ronnie Collins, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-02-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence harmful-error harmless-error witness-testimony | Whether the limits placed on Collins's right to cross-examine the central witness against him constituted harmful error. |
| 23-855 | Richard Abbott v. Supreme Court of Delaware, et al. | Delaware | 2024-02-08 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 6th-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause disbarment due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech pro-se professional-licensure | I. Whether a person proceeding Pro Se in defending a confidential professional licensure disbarment proceeding is vested with full 1st Amendment Right… |
| 23-6659 | Edward Logan v. Illinois | Illinois | 2024-02-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection pre-trial-detention sixth-amendment speedy-trial statutory-interpretation | Wow con a Gioke enack and use an Ack, that by 45 oon Vagu ness, Com tae Werpretated te deny . Any. Criminal defendant the vight te.a spealy triol unde… |
| 23-6618 | Mabior M. Mabior v. Nebraska | Nebraska | 2024-01-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review confrontation-clause cross-examination hearsay hearsay-exception ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment testimonial-statement testimonial-statements | 1) Is a defendant's right to confrontation under the Sixth Amendment violated when testimonial statements are admitted for the truth of the matters as… |
| 23-6623 | Johnl Jackson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-01-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | compulsory-process confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-evidence notice-requirement sex-trafficking | 1. The crime of Sex Trafficking by Force, Fraud, or Coercion, 18 U.S.C. § 1591, by virtue of its definitions of "coercion" and "serious harm," allows … |
| 23-820 | Ohio v. William Johnson | Ohio | 2024-01-30 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedRelisted (2) | 911-recording confrontation-clause domestic-violence excited-utterance hearsay non-testimonial ongoing-emergency sixth-amendment | When viewed objectively, were the statements describing the fresh incident of domestic violence in the 911 recording non-testimonial? |
| 23-6559 | Marcus Johnson v. Randy Irwin, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Forest, et al. | Third Circuit | 2024-01-24 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-deference confrontation-clause due-process expert-testimony expert-witness judicial-review prejudice prejudice-standard self-defense sixth-amendment testimonial-statements | 1. Did the Third Circuit err in deferring to the District Court's finding that Mr. Johnson suffered no prejudice from the Confrontation violation that… |
| 23-793 | Isidro Javier Armenta v. California | California | 2024-01-24 | Denied | 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment automated-enforcement automated-traffic-enforcement confrontation-clause due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment sixth-amendment | 1. Whether the Sixth Amendment Confrontation Clause holding in Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts, 557 U.S. 305 (2009) extends to automated traffic enforc… | |
| 23A672 | Samuel Fields v. Scott Jordan, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2024-01-22 | Presumed Complete | confrontation-clause constitutional-violation extrinsic-evidence habeas-relief jury-deliberation sixth-amendment | Question not identified. | |
| 23-6474 | Courtney Rose Desjarlais v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-01-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause cross-examination due-process hearsay hearsay-evidence sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | I. Under the Sixth Amendment of the United States Constitution, a defendant in a criminal case has the right to confront adverse witnesses against her… |
| 23-6475 | Darrius Decnan Redd v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-01-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause credibility cross-examination due-process evidence-exclusion fair-trial prosecutorial-misconduct sex-trafficking | i. In this case alleging sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion, whether the district court violated the Defendant's Due Process and Confrontati… |
| 23-6479 | Sterling H. Roberts v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-01-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure declarant-unavailability forfeiture-by-wrongdoing mixed-motives primary-purpose sixth-amendment unavailability | In Giles v. California, 554 U.S. 353, 128 S. Ct. 2678, 171 L. Ed. 2d 488 (2008), this Court recognized the common law exception to the Confrontation C… |
| 23-6447 | Samuel Sherman v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-01-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause confrontation-right criminal-joinder criminal-procedure prejudice prejudicial-error rule-14 rule-14-procedure sixth-amendment zafiro-precedent zafiro-v-united-states | Whether the lower courts misapplie d this Court's holding in Zafiro v. Unit ed States, 506 U.S. 534, 113 S.Ct. 933 (1993), and the require ments of Ru… |
| 23-6420 | Orlando S. Burgos v. Martin Gamboa, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2024-01-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bias confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination habeas-corpus harmless-error motive-to-lie sole-evidence witness-bias | Petitioner Orlando Burgos was deprived of his Confrontation Clause right to cross-examine his accuser—the key prosecution witness—that he received a b… |
| 23-6343 | Patrick Bowie v. Mark Miller, Superintendent, Green Haven Correctional Facility | Second Circuit | 2023-12-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | authentication confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process evidence-authentication hearsay ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-v-washington | 1. Is the right to confrontation violated when inculpatory letters, turned over to the People by a non-testifying witness, admitted into evidence wit… |
| 23-6350 | Brady Franklin v. Illinois | Illinois | 2023-12-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause craig-precedent crawford-precedent crawford-v-washington intellectual-disability maryland-v-craig public-policy sixth-amendment witness-testimony | After Crawford, is the balancing test created by Craig still good law, and if so, does extending its exemption for children from physical, face-to-fac… |
| 23-6251 | Jonathan Rodriguez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-12-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acquitted-conduct confrontation-clause due-process fifth-amendment preponderance-of-evidence sentencing sentencing-standard sixth-amendment suppression-motion | I. Whether the use of a preponderance of the evidence standard at sentencing violated Rodriguez's Fifth Amendment and Sixth Amendment rights? II. Whe… |
| 23-6238 | William Jarvis v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-12-12 | Denied | IFP | confrontation confrontation-clause due-process effective-counsel equal-protection fifth-amendment self-incrimination sixth-amendment third-party-guilt | 1. Whether the Fifth Amendment right to be free from the compulsion to make self incriminating statements includes the right to not be required to pro… |
| 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… |
| 23-6072 | James Richards v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-11-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-rights crawford-v-washington crawford-violation criminal-procedure evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence | this Court review the Betitioner's Trial Court Transcript Record on April 21, 2021, and all appeals. Counsel Arkie Byrd was so ineffective for failing… |
| 23-6060 | John Lacey Mulkey v. Georgia | Georgia | 2023-11-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence extrinsic-evidence right-to-present-defense rule-403 sixth-amendment speedy-trial | Did the Court of Appeals violate the due process right to present a defense, in holding admissible, under O.C.G.A. § 24-4-403, (Rule 403) extrinsic ev… |
| 23-505 | Garrett A. Arrowood v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-11-14 | Denied | Response Waived | appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause crawford-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-law habeas-corpus hearsay-evidence | I. WHETHER THE RECORD SUPPORTS THE COURT'S CONCLUSION THAT THE STATE COURT HEARING REGARDING THE INADMISSIBLE HEARSAY (CRAWFORD VIOLATION) DID NOT VIO… |
| 23-5976 | Brian Heath Davis v. Randy Gibbs, Warden, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2023-11-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | autopsy autopsy-report confrontation-clause criminal-procedure effective-assistance expert-testimony reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment | Akin to Justice Sotomayor's Bullcoming v. New Mexico, 564 U.S. 647, 672-74 (2011) scenario; To what extent are Sixth Amendment guarantees of Confronta… |
| 23-5969 | Semaan Makdissi v. Florida | Florida | 2023-11-07 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | compulsory-process confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence false-accusation fourteenth-amendment motive sixth-amendment | Whether the Petitioner's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated when the trial court prohibited the defense from placing before the jury … |
| 23-5971 | Kevondric Fezia v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-11-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | closing-arguments confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process hearsay jury non-testifying-witness prosecutorial-argument sixth-amendment witness-testimony | Does the Confrontation Clause apply to statements made by a prosecutor during closing arguments that detail for the jury what a non-testifying witness… |
| 23-5891 | Luis Alonso Hidalgo, III v. Tim Garrett, Warden, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-10-26 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel joinder joint-trial sixth-amendment | 1. Did the Ninth Circuit err when Petitioner Hidalgo made a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right as to the failure of counsel t… |
| 23A358 | Ohio v. William Johnson | Ohio | 2023-10-20 | Presumed Complete | 911-call confrontation-clause domestic-violence emergency-exception hearsay-evidence testimonial-statement | Question not identified. | |
| 23-5741 | Hewitt A. Grant, II v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Florida | 2023-10-10 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-prosecution jurisdiction standing witness-testimony | Question not identified. |
| 23-5656 | Stephen M. Cooke, Jr. v. Allen Gang, Warden, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2023-09-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment involuntary-statements post-indictment-statements right-to-counsel sixth-amendment undercover-agent | 1. Was Cooke's Sixth Amendment right to counsel violated when the state introduced at trial Cooke's post-indictment statements and actions that were i… |
| 23-309 | Michael Paul Nelson v. North Carolina | North Carolina | 2023-09-26 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review civil-rights confrontation-clause criminal-procedure disability-rights due-process equal-access fundamental-rights reasonable-accommodation | Does the Confrontation Clause of the 6th Amendment and/or the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment require a criminal court to modify its policies… |
| 23-5616 | Isaac Kipkurui Biegon v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-09-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | accomplice-testimony confrontation-clause conspiracy-evidence conspiracy-hearsay corroboration corroboration-evidence criminal-procedure due-process hearsay jury-instructions sixth-amendment | This petition seeks a review of a wrongful alleged conspiracy conviction. A. There are three foundational prerequisites which must be established to … |
| 23-5594 | Brim Bell v. New Hampshire | New Hampshire | 2023-09-15 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process false-testimony ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment trial-procedure warrantless-search | 1. Whether trial-counsel erred by not filing a motion to quash the indictments, despite the overwhelming-evidence that proves the investigating offi… |
| 23-5500 | Le'Troy D. Merritt v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2023-09-01 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-rules fair-trial federal-appeal habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-due-process state-action | Question not identified. |
| 23-5459 | Maurice Turner v. Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. | Third Circuit | 2023-08-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | co-defendant co-defendant-statements confrontation-clause criminal-procedure douglas-v-alabama due-process harmless-error pretrial-statements sixth-amendment testimony | WHETHER THE VIOLATION OF THE CONFRONTATION CLAUSE AS EXPLICATED IN DOUGLAS V. ALABAMA, 380 U.S. 415, 85 S.CT. 1074, 13 L.ED.2D 934 (1965) WAS HARMLESS… |
| 23-5443 | Scott Huss v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Florida | 2023-08-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-violation due-process equal-application equal-protection habeas-corpus | Is it a federal due process, confrontation, and equal application violation as guaranteed by the 5th, 6th, and 14th Amendments (U.S. Const.) when a st… |
| 23-5454 | Moses Crowe v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-08-25 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause confrontation-right criminal-procedure cross-examination drug-abuse due-process intoxication jury-unanimity methamphetamine witness-credibility | 1. Whether Petitioner's constitutional right to confrontation was violated when, during his criminal jury trial, the district court restricted cross e… |
| 23-5427 | Ranson Long Pumpkin v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-08-24 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause credibility credibility-evidence criminal-procedure cross-examination drug-usage drug-use evidence sixth-amendment | Whether Long Pumpkiw's right to confrontation was denied when the district court ruled that he could not cross-examine two important eye-witnesses "in… |
| 23A160 | Brian Williams, Warden, et al. v. Reynaldo Agavo | Ninth Circuit | 2023-08-22 | Presumed Complete | attorney-misconduct clearly-established-law confrontation-clause equitable-tolling habeas-corpus section-2254 | 1. This case raises important questions of federal law involving (1) principles of equitable tolling, and (2) application of this Court's jurisprudenc… | |
| 23-5310 | Joseph Tyshawn Darren Favorite v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-08-09 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | burden-of-proof confrontation-clause criminal-conduct criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-standards judicial-discretion police-report sentencing-enhancement uncorroborated-accusation | May the Court rely on an uncorroborated accusation of criminal conduct in a police report to enhance a defendant's sentence when the report is not par… |
| 23-5315 | Jesse Dean Redfearn v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2023-08-09 | Denied | IFP | 42-usc-1983 civil-rights compulsory-process confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process sixth-amendment witness-obstruction | Did the trial court and/or the prosecution violate the Sixth (6th) Amendment, [confrontation clause], and clearly established law of the United States… |
| 23-5305 | John Vaughn v. Nebraska | Nebraska | 2023-08-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | automobile-exception commercial-trains confrontation-clause fourth-amendment plain-smell-exception probable-cause search-and-seizure sixth-amendment warrant-requirement | 1) Does the automobile exception to the warrant requirement of the Fourth Amendment apply to commercial trains? 2) Is there a plain smell exception t… |
| 23-91 | Nolan Marcus Forness, II v. Virginia | Virginia | 2023-08-01 | Denied | Response Waived | body-cameras compulsory-process confrontation-clause due-process evidence-preservation fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment | Issue 1. Given the current extensive of use by law enforcement of modern technology such as automobile and body cameras, a defendant's right under the… |
| 23-5238 | John Edward Scott v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-07-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review burden-of-proof confrontation-clause confrontation-clause-jurisprudence federal-rules-of-evidence machine-generated-data machine-produced-data supreme-court-jurisprudence testimonial-evidence testimonial-statements | Who has the burden to show that a report sought to be introduced includes "raw, machine produced data" and not testimonial statements triggering the C… |
| 23-5203 | Ronald Marion Carpenter v. Wisconsin | Wisconsin | 2023-07-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause confrontation-rights credibility criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health-records | THIS PETITION PRESENTS NOVEL QUESTIONS OF LAW, THE RESOLUTION OF WHICH WILL DEVELOP THE LAW AND HAVE NATIONWIDE IMPACT, WHILE ESTABLISHING A NEEDED AN… |
| 23-5156 | Markerrion D'Shon Allison v. Texas | Texas | 2023-07-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-error expert-testimony informant out-of-court-statement personal-knowledge testimonial-evidence witness-confrontation | Whether a police officer's testimony relating an unidentified informant's outof-court statement regarding the meaning of the phrase "pulling a Carlos"… |
| 23-5161 | Derek M. Funk v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2023-07-21 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment 9th-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility statute-interpretation statutory-interpretation | Are Oklahoma statute(s) 21 O.S. § 1040.12(a), 21 O.S. 1040.8 (a), and 21 O.S. § 1024.1 in conformity with the United States Constitution, Amendment(s)… |
| 23A37 | Patrick Bowie v. William Lee, Superintendent, Greenhaven Correctional Facility | Second Circuit | 2023-07-14 | Presumed Complete | confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington | Question not identified. | |
| 23A27 | Ranson Long Pumpkin v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-07-13 | Presumed Complete | carjacking confrontation-clause crime-of-violence fair-trial firearm-discharge sixth-amendment | Question not identified. | |
| 23A28 | Moses Crowe v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-07-12 | Presumed Complete | carjacking confrontation-clause eighth-circuit fair-trial firearm-possession sixth-amendment | Question not identified. | |
| 23-5064 | Joseph Chandler Davall v. Warren L. Montgomery, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2023-07-10 | Denied | IFP | child-custody confrontation-clause constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure custody-dispute due-process evidence hearsay judicial-procedure legal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation | Question not identified. |
| 22-7846 | Vance Collins v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-06-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bruton-v-united-states codefendant codefendant-statement confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure hearsay out-of-court-statement sixth-amendment | Whether a defendant's rights under the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment are violated by the admission of a non-testifying codefendant's out… |
| 22-7793 | Nedeltcho Vladimirov v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-06-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause covid-19-restrictions criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial less-restrictive-alternatives sixth-amendment speedy-trial witness-testimony | Whether the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment is violated by requiring all trial witnesses to testify with masks that covered the majority o… |
| 22-1203 | Alan Patrick Fowler v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2023-06-13 | Denied | confrontation-clause confrontation-right constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mens-rea mental-health sentencing specific-intent | 1) Could reasonable jurists disagree on whether there is insufficient evidence of specific intent to commit murder where Fowler never shot at a person… | |
| 22-7744 | Gregory Bartunek v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-06-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause due-process habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment speedy-trial | Did the Court of Appeals abuse its discretion, violationg Bartunek's due process rights, by failing to issue a Certificate of Appealability for consti… |
| 22-7604 | Harbans Singh v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-05-19 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process hearsay immigration interpreter-testimony sixth-amendment | Whether an interpreter's hearsay statements are subject to Confrontation Clause analysis, particularly when the statements themselves constitute the c… |
| 22-7575 | Larry Edmond v. Tommy Williams, Warden | Tenth Circuit | 2023-05-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process impartial-jury ineffective-assistance jury-bias racial-bias racial-discrimination structural-error trial-court | 1. Whether district court trial abuse its discretion and violated the defendant's constitutional right to an impartial jury when it refused to grant a… |
| 22-7542 | Wilber Curtis Johnson v. Texas | Texas | 2023-05-12 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-constitution sexual-assault texas-constitution trial-procedure witness-testimony | Whether testimony can be sufficient to render harmless any error in admitting additional testimony in evidence, when trial counsel objected to testimo… |
| 22-1097 | Don Fitzgerald Hancock v. United States | District of Columbia | 2023-05-10 | Denied | Response Waived | confrontation-clause due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error religious-freedom religious-garment sixth-amendment witness-testimony | Petitioner was convicted of second degree murder based largely on the testimony of the sole witness to the killing, who placed Petitioner at the scene… |
| 22-1068 | Gary Paul Kirkman v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2023-05-04 | Denied | certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process melendez-diaz-v-massachusetts sane-records sixth-amendment | Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in denying Gary Paul Kirkman's request for a certificate of appealability (COA) when it concluded that he had not made… | |
| 22-1075 | James E. Hinkle v. Ron Neal, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2023-05-04 | Denied | Response Waived | 6th-amendment confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-precedent impeachment impeachment-evidence witness-testimony | 1. Whether The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit's decision was contrary to federal precedent when it held that Hinkle's federal … |
| 22-7400 | Maurice Morrison v. Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 2023-04-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause confrontation-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment judicial-protection jury-deliberations jury-trial sixth-amendment trial-evidence | A person accused of a crime is entitled to have his guilt or innocence determined solely on the basis of evidence introduced at trial. Taylor v. Kentu… |
| 22-7343 | William Levi Oliver v. Texas | Texas | 2023-04-21 | Denied | IFP | 6th-amendment confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-testimony ineffective-assistance trauma-narrative videoconference-testimony witness | 1 (a) Whether it is a violation of the Confrontation Clause to dispense with physical/ face-to-face confrontation and permit out-of-state testimony vi… |
| 22-7317 | Rosa V. v. Ali H. | California | 2023-04-19 | Denied | IFP | child-abuse civil-rights confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-law hearsay-exception medical-records out-of-court-statements sixth-amendment | In Our "ShorvG4u* l'tFyMW(ii)Oo5*r'i T prt-sented TVi* .Mtentit- OMvfMd (Vib/^ i/USdod-iau Of pecenis iflfoEi/itUnck- jwtyii, yw+U diSisq^kTH c..!,:^ … |
| 22-7271 | Gregg Haden v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2023-04-13 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review supreme-court-precedent texas-procedure | ynoc^dut*. FaII ,'fcj Ut-jDer TU< 4 CRuTny Of Ttl<. Bull Com', -^TAA/ cIario AM) Vio IA Ti'hQ TH< FT/J hmtksOmcnT THAT iS To STATcS THROUGH Ttt& IHm… |
| 22-7222 | Ray Dansby v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction | Eighth Circuit | 2023-04-05 | Denied | IFP | bias confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process informant jailhouse-informant witness-impeachment | To secure Ray Dansby's conviction and death sentence, the State relied heavily on the testimony of a jailhouse informant to whom Dansby purportedly co… |
| 22-7103 | George Lincoln Stanley, IV v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2023-03-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-1291 confrontation-clause criminal-procedure hearsay-testimony ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jurisdiction kidnapping kidnapping-charges sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence | The following questions are exceptional circumstances that warrants the exercise of the court's discretionafcyvpowers and adequate relief cannot be ob… |
| 22-7075 | Dennis Morgan Hicks v. Alabama | Alabama | 2023-03-22 | Denied | IFP | child-witnesses confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-defendant hearsay prior-statements sixth-amendment testimonial-statements witness-testimony | 1. Whether a criminal defendant is deprived of his Sixth Amendment right to confront witnesses against him, as set forth in Crawford v. Washington and… |
| 22-7026 | Erin F. Graham, Jr. v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2023-03-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | co-defendant confrontation-clause criminal-offense criminal-procedure domestic-incident hearsay hearsay-statements law-enforcement ongoing-criminal-offense | 1) Whether the introduction of a co-defendant's inculpatory hearsay statements about her alleged co-conspirator, made to law enforcement following a d… |
| 22-899 | Jason Smith v. Arizona | Arizona | 2023-03-16 | Judgment Issued | Amici (10)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 6th-amendment confrontation-clause criminal-procedure criminal-trial expert-testimony forensic-analysis sixth-amendment subpoena testimonial-evidence | Whether the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment permits the prosecution in a criminal trial to present testimony by a substitute expert convey… |
| 22-885 | South Carolina v. Angela D. Brewer | South Carolina | 2023-03-15 | Denied | confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure expert-testimony forensic-evidence forensic-pathology melendez-diaz-v-massachusetts ohio-v-clark sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence testimonial-statements | Whether lab results requested not by law enforcement but by a forensic pathologist to assist in making a routine cause of death determination are test… | |
| 22-6985 | Lisa Bergman v. Jeremy Howard, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2023-03-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-right criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony expert-witness prosecution-evidence right-to-counsel scientific-evidence scientific-expert | Whether the Due Process Clause requires an impoverished criminal defendant to be appointed a scientific expert that is essential to confront scientifi… |
| 22-844 | Hamid Akhavan and Ruben Weigand v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-03-06 | Denied | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination exceptional-circumstances remote-testimony sixth-amendment trial-procedure | Whether the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment is violated by denying a criminal defendant the right to cross-examine a key prosecution witne… | |
| 22-6920 | Ogerta Helena Hartwein v. Missouri | Missouri | 2023-03-03 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights confrontation-clause criminal-procedure custody domestic-violence due-process forfeiture forfeiture-by-wrongdoing intent witness-testimony | Pre. urstodys, Somedute sheuated on We 20\& order, The Gimina® Ur Way aod Noring tap Wer Son ¥o Fates on Quar lb) old, per The 2OIA order The, Missour… |
| 22-6861 | Jairo Francisco Solano v. Texas | Texas | 2023-02-24 | Denied | IFP | 6th-amendment appellate-review confrontation-clause criminal-procedure defendant-objection due-process evidence evidence-admission hearsay judicial-procedure trial-court-error | DID THE TRIAL COURT ERRED BY ADMITTING HEARSAY TESTIMONY OVER THE OBJECTION OF MR. SOLANO? WAS THIS EVIDENCE ADMITTED IN VIOLATION OF THE CONFRONTATI… |
| 22-6828 | Luis Espinoza v. Tammy Foss, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2023-02-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment 6th-amendment confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment witness-testimony | Were Mr. Espinoza's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights violated by: (1) the jury's viewing a witness's refusal to testify; (2) the prosecutor askin… |
| 22-6561 | Telly Hankton v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-01-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause conspiracy-liability criminal-procedure federal-circuit-courts forfeiture-by-wrongdoing sixth-amendment standard-of-proof testimonial-statements | By what standard of proof does the Sixth Amendment permit the admission at trial of prior testimonial statements under the forfeiture by wrongdoing ex… |
| 22-6563 | Jaquain Young v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-01-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | complete-defense confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-discretion right-to-present-defense severance witness-recantation | 1. Shortly after the murder of Jelvon Helton, which petitioner was convicted of, witness Tierra Lewis went to the police, circled codefendant Esau Fer… |
| 22-6472 | Vincent Paul Melendrez v. Jason Bennett, Superintendent, Stafford Creek Corrections Center | Ninth Circuit | 2023-01-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure defense due-process fifth-amendment self-incrimination sixth-amendment | 1. Where the Trial Court's Ruling Compelling the Election of Rights had required a criminal Defendant to waive his Fifth Amendment Constitutional Ri… |
| 22-6462 | Jerome K. Ta'afulisia v. Washington | Washington | 2023-01-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington evidence-creation law-enforcement-solicitation michigan-v-bryant ohio-v-clark police-investigation primary-purpose-test sixth-amendment testimonial-statement | Is a statement testimonial for purposes of the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment when the speaker talks with a trusted family member who is … |
| 22-6465 | Jess Richard Smith v. Washington | Washington | 2023-01-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process federal-law jurisdiction post-conviction state-court stay witness-testimony | AjW A Uer -xUe. csAA^- c<pop4" -£ L^u3 uMzr -\Ue~ Ao<2__ ^roeeSLS ' Clause- c& AUg- LaA-VA S\a\-<^s C^ l\sVA o-VA( s-i\ as V° l-5 AAAs r0 (^por-WA--… |
| 22-6427 | Denver Sangster v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-12-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-vs-maryland confidential-informant confrontation-clause criminal-procedure good-faith-exception probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant | There has been more than enough cases in the last few decades, where search warrants that lack probable cause has been accepted by all the lower Unite… |
| 22-6437 | Alan Singleton v. Tom Watson, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2022-12-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial hearsay hearsay-testimony ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel | Did counsel provide ineffective assistance? Did the prosecution's use of the word "uncontroverted" place the burden of proof on the defendant, thereb… |
| 22-6414 | Keith Antonio Barnett v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-12-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process hearsay hearsay-testimony jury-instruction theory-of-defense | WHETHER THE CONFRONTATION CLAUSE WAS VIOLATED WHEN PROSECUTORS RELIED, EXCLUSIVELY, ON HEARSAY TESTIMONY TO CONVICT THE PETITIONER? WHETHER THE PET… |
| 22-6401 | William Clyde Culberson, Jr. v. Texas | Texas | 2022-12-28 | Denied | IFP | 6th-amendment confrontation-clause crawford-vs-washington criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-law medical-records sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence | IS MEDICAL RECORDS CONSIDERED AS CONFRONTATION CLAUSE COVERED UNDER CRAWFORD VS. WASHINGTONA. |
| 22-6356 | Tyler Nees v. Oregon | Oregon | 2022-12-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause cross-examination due-process evidence federal-review habeas-corpus hearsay independent-state-ground procedural-default sixth-amendment state-court | Question not identified. |
| 22-6331 | Lance Green v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-12-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment 6th-amendment-confrontation confrontation-clause daubert dna-evidence due-process firearm-possession sixth-amendment speedy-trial-act | 1. Should the Supreme Court grant certiorari to consider whether Green's Sixth Amendment right of confrontation was violated by the procedures utilize… |
| 22-6292 | Ryan L. Bessert v. Wisconsin | Wisconsin | 2022-12-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation crawford-precedent crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process maryland-v-craig ohio-v-roberts two-way-video witness-testimony | Our constitution codifies the ancient right of confronting one's accuser. Relying on Ohio v. Roberts, this Court has held a procedure which eliminates… |
| 22-6293 | Dkyle Jamal Bridges v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-12-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment automobile-exception confrontation-clause confrontation-right fourth-amendment franks-hearing plain-view sentencing-factors sex-trafficking testimonial-hearsay | 1. Did the automobile exception to the Fourth Amendment justify the warrantless search of Petitioner's vehicle, which had in plain view only innocuous… |
| 22-511 | Thomas Dixon v. Texas | Texas | 2022-12-02 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2) | confrontation-clause constitutional-error courtroom-closure crawford-doctrine crawford-v-washington due-process hearsay-confession hearsay-exception hemphill-v-new-york recantations sufficiency-of-the-evidence | QUESTION ONE: Should Crawford be a one-way street? Contrary to Hemphill v. New York, __ U.S. __, 142 S. Ct. 681, 692-93, 211 L.Ed.2d 534 (2022), the t… |
| 22-6154 | In Re Lyle R. Harrison | 2022-11-28 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause due-process illinois-supreme-court judge judicial-misconduct police-reports prosecutor speedy-trial | 1. Whether due process allows the Denial of Speedy Trial by; Prosecutor Charles Zalar, Illinois Attorney Kwame Raoul, Judge Richard L. Broch, Judge … | |
| 22-6155 | Ryan McGuire v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-11-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation confrontation-clause criminal-trial cross-examination due-process fair-trial impeachment impeachment-evidence law-enforcement | 1. Does a trial court's ruling excluding evidence at trial violate a criminal defendant's right to due process, including the rights to confront and e… |
| 22-488 | Darrell Hemphill v. New York | New York | 2022-11-22 | Denied | Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | appeal confrontation-clause constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-ruling harmless-error judicial-review out-of-court-statement supreme-court-precedent | Whether the improper admission of the out-of-court statement by the alternative suspect in Hemphill v. New York, 142 S. Ct. 681 (2022), was "so unimpo… |
| 22-6124 | Jason Baxter v. Harold D. Graham, Superintendent, Auburn Correctional Facility | Second Circuit | 2022-11-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | compulsory-process confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process right-to-counsel right-to-public-trial | WHY WAS BAXTER DENIED THE DUE PROCESS OF LAW BY WAY OF BEING TRIED IN ABSENTIA AT TRIAL? WHY DID THE JUDICIAL SPILLOVER EFFECT OF BEING RE-INCARCERAT… |
| 22-6077 | William Donnell, III v. Eddie Caley, Warden, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2022-11-16 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process extrinsic-evidence impeachment lead-detective right-to-present-defense trial-court-error trial-error witness-impeachment | 1. Did the trial court, by prohibiting me from impeaching the lead detective with extrinsic evidence specifically contradicting his testimony on direc… |
| 22-450 | Gregory Shields, Sr. v. Kentucky | Kentucky | 2022-11-15 | Denied | Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | confrontation-clause constitutional-standard crawford-v-washington cross-examination due-process preliminary-hearing state-court-division state-court-split witness-testimony | When, if ever, does a preliminary hearing provide an "adequate opportunity" for cross-examination under the Confrontation Clause? |
| 22-441 | Rony Galicia v. Maryland | Maryland | 2022-11-10 | Denied | Response Waived | abuse-of-discretion accomplice-confession appellate-review confrontation-clause cross-examination double-murder sixth-amendment standard-of-review | This case presents the following questions: 1. Whether the Sixth Amendment is violated by a trial court's denial of cross-examination into an accompl… |
| 22-6009 | David Matthew Carter v. South Carolina | South Carolina | 2022-11-07 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure confrontation-clause courtroom-removal Crawford-v-Washington criminal-procedure due-process Maryland-v-Craig sixth-amendment trial-rights witness-testimony | Did the trial Court commit reversable error by removing Petitioner from the courtroom and forcing him to watch his trial via closed circuit monitoring… |
| 22-5986 | Raymond Howard v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-11-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process expert-witness late-notice | Whether the District Court's decision to allow the testimony of the Government's key expert witness over the Petitioner's objection based on late noti… |
| 22-5926 | Charles Chitat Ng v. California | California | 2022-10-27 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause due-process extradition-hearing fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment self-representation sixth-amendment stun-belt | I. WAS PETITIONER DEPRIVED OF DUE PROCESS AND HIS RIGHT OF SELF REPRESENTATION UNDER THE FIFTH, SIXTH, AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENTS BY THE TRIAL COURT'S … |
| 22-5841 | Harry Sharod James v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-10-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure commerce-clause confrontation-clause constitutional-authority district-court filing-fee judicial-tax procedural-discretion standing subject-matter-jurisdiction | UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT OFNORTH CAROLINA " EASTERN DISTRICT" abuse its discretion by not establishing subject Matter Juris diction, once it was c… |
| 22-5842 | Lex Lugard Eugene v. Florida | Florida | 2022-10-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-sentencing first-amendment fourteenth-amendment habitual-felony-offender-statute sixth-amendment unsubstantiated-allegations | I. WHETHER UNSUBSTANTIATED ALLEGATIONS OF MISCONDUCT INTRODUCED IN A CRIMINAL SENTENCING PROCEEDING VIOLATES THE FIRST AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENTS TO … |
| 22-5731 | Jonathan D. Carr v. Kansas | Kansas | 2022-10-03 | Denied | IFP | capital-trial confrontation-clause criminal-procedure eligibility-phase selection-phase sentencing-phase sixth-amendment witness-confrontation | Whether the Sixth Amendment's Confrontation Clause secures an accused's right to confront witnesses against him throughout the sentencing phase of a c… |
| 22-5692 | Kyle Brandon Rocha v. West Virginia | West Virginia | 2022-09-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | beyond-a-reasonable-doubt confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process hearsay hearsay-evidence reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-hearing standard-of-proof | Is it a violation of a defendant's rights to due process of law and confrontation for a Court to make a finding in a sentencing hearing based solely o… |
| 22-5588 | John Wakefield v. New York | New York | 2022-09-15 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | artificial-intelligence confrontation-clause due-process expert-testimony forensic-evidence probabilistic-genotyping sixth-amendment source-code | Does the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution require the disclosure of the source code of an artificial inte… |
| 22-5577 | Marvin Davis v. Kevin Genovese, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2022-09-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-interview child-witness confrontation-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-counsel forensic-interviewer hearsay hearsay-statements sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation | (1) WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT ERRED IN ALLOWING THE CHILD VIDEO INTERVIEW AND WHETHER T.C.A. SECTION 24-7-123 IS [UNCONSTITUTIONAL? (2) WHETHER THE PET… |
| 22-5579 | William Baham v. Tim Hooper, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2022-09-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance state-action supremacy-clause | Whether the 14% Amendment, imposes upon the States of Louisiana the obligation to refrain from systemic, purposeful deprivations of substantive federa… |
| 22-5550 | Corey Bailey v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-09-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting confrontation-clause confrontation-rights fair-trial jury-impartiality racketeering-enterprise rico-conspiracy vicar-convictions warrant-exception | I. A. Did the government prove beyond a reasonable doubt the existence of a racketeering enterprise, a necessary element for all of the charges, when … |
| 22-5520 | Anthony Sims, Jr. v. New Jersey | New Jersey | 2022-09-07 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause criminal-trial cross-examination hearsay hearsay-statement memory-loss pre-trial-hearing sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence | The Confrontation Clause bars testimonial hearsay when the defendant has not had the opportunity for cross-examination. At Mr. Sims' trial for attempt… |
| 22-196 | Adam Samia, aka Sal, aka Adam Samic v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-09-01 | Judgment Issued | Amici (7) | codefendant-confession confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence out-of-court-statement redaction sixth-amendment | Whether admitting a codefendant's redacted out-of-court confession that immediately inculpates a defendant based on the surrounding context violates t… |
| 22-5469 | Jeffrey Beard, II v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-08-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination hearsay hearsay-evidence obstruction-of-justice sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | The Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution requires that the accused "shall enjoy the right ... to be confronted with the witnesses against him." Th… |
| 22-5471 | Tremain Lamar Braxton, Timothy Roy Mason, and Darrell Lee-Lamont Summers, II v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-08-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause confrontation-rights criminal-sexual-conduct criminal-trial cross-examination evidence-exclusion incentive-to-testify sixth-amendment witness-credibility | Whether a defendant's Sixth Amendment confrontation rights are violated when a trial court bars all cross-examination about events that concededly too… |
| 22-5426 | Joseph Antonetti v. Timothy Filson, Warden, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-08-23 | Denied | IFP | autopsy-report certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause crawford-precedent crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-examiner | Did the courts below err in denying a Certificate of Appealability to review the holdings of the district court and the Nevada Supreme Court that Mr. … |
| 22-155 | Hiral M. Patel v. Connecticut | Connecticut | 2022-08-18 | Denied | Response Waived | bourjaily-v-united-states confrontation-clause confrontation-rights crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure davis-v-washington due-process dutton-v-evans evidence-admission michigan-v-bryant penal-interest testimonial-statement | Whether a statement against penal interest— e made by an inmate/declarant who was moved into the cell of an inmate/informant, who was then outfitted … |
| 22-5369 | Milton Lee Gardner v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2022-08-17 | Denied | IFP | confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jury-charge juvenile-adjudication juvenile-justice sentencing-enhancement | 1). If the record in this case contains two "written waivers" of counsel, and one request to proceed pro se by counsel, prior to voir dire. But, the r… |
| 22-5350 | Randolph J. Norwood v. Florida | Florida | 2022-08-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fatal-variance trial-integrity victim-identification witness-testimony | Can a State charge a defendant with committing a crime against a specific individual and at trial present a completely different individual as the all… |
| 22-139 | Sari Alqsous v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-08-15 | Denied | Response Waived | charge-conference confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process hobbs-act mens-rea public-official sentencing sixth-circuit | Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in analyzing ruling that Petitioner was not entitled to be present during the Charge Conference under Fed. R. Crim. P.… |
| 22-5331 | Mark Anthony Williams v. Michigan | Michigan | 2022-08-10 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause criminal-sexual-conduct cross-examination cumulative-error due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | I. THE EVIDENCE PRESENTED AT TRIAL WAS INSUFFICIENT TO SUPPORT THE CONVICTION OF CSC 1st DEGREE WHERE THERE WAS NO PROOF OF PENETRATION AS REQUIRED BY… |
| 22-5261 | Yusuf O. Bush v. David J. Ebbert | District of Columbia | 2022-08-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment federal-courts habeas-corpus standing statutory-interpretation | 3., Do&S "fye Aw£i>PA 6-f N/ibloAe- 4*V\C Ce>n5454i£>in 0-f 4~ln£- l)n\4ed Skk^ i5^ a/\J 6^&wevoJoi-evv4- 'J Sp^C\§i c\\j fV^£, Ist Ostno^.^ ime/it Ju… |
| 22-5271 | Jose Erbo, aka Tito, aka Pinguita, aka Miguel Garcia v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-08-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment autopsy-reports confrontation-clause due-process legal-conflict supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-precedents testimonial testimonial-evidence | Whether Autopsy Reports Are Testimonial For Purposes Of The Confrontation Clause, And Whether The Unreasonable Application Of Clearly Established Su… |
| 22-5247 | Luckens Petit v. Florida | Florida | 2022-08-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bond-hearing confrontation-clause constitutional-rights crawford-precedent crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process evidence florida-arthur-bond-hearing sixth-amendment | I. WHETHER THE FLORIDA ARTHURVBOND HEARING SATISFIES THE SIXTH AMENDMENT 'S CONFRONTATION CLAUSE REQUIREMENT AS EXPLAINED IN CRAWFORD V. WASHINGTON, 5… |
| 22-5164 | Oscar Lenton, Sr. v. Warden, FCI Edgefield | Fourth Circuit | 2022-07-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-v-maryland brady-violation confrontation-clause due-process evidence-suppression exculpatory-evidence fair-trial government-misconduct habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment | I. Whether ar noit the Agooals Court Tuliwg deprived patittonor oF his Tight under Braoly V. Maryland. Su pra.where tne Government had Violated is obl… |
| 22-5131 | Terry Gillard v. California | California | 2022-07-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment witness-impeachment | Whether the California court's refusal to allow a witness to be impeached with his federal bank robbery conviction violated petitioner's clearly estab… |
| 22-5117 | Wade Robertson v. Committee on Grievances for the United States District Court for the District of Columbia | District of Columbia | 2022-07-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-proceedings confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-rights cross-examination due-process professional-license professional-licensing quasi-criminal witness-testimony | 1. Does the Federal Constitution secure to the holder of a professional license, such as an attorney, the right to confront and cross-examine adverse … |
| 22-5046 | James R. Butler v. Florida | Florida | 2022-07-07 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process foreign-witness oath oath-validity witness-testimony | QUESTION A: Is the oath of the State's witness invalid in a criminal proceeding when that witness testifying from a foreign country by video-satellite… |
| 22-5027 | Justin D. Bennett v. Texas | Texas | 2022-07-05 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-protections constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process jackson-v-virginia out-of-court-statements sufficiency-of-evidence | 1. Wheather the due process standard recognized in Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307 (1979) constitutionally protects an accused against out-of-cour… |
| 21-8262 | Antonio Jones v. Frank Vanihel, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2022-06-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause cross-examination due-process fourteenth-amendment police-investigation right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence witness-credibility | Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, as constructed in Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36 (2004), Dutton v. Evans, 400 U.S. 74 (1970) and Bru… |
| 21-8237 | Odece Dempsean Hill v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-06-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause crawford-precedent crawford-v-washington forensic-nurse-examiner melendez-diaz-v-massachusetts ninth-circuit sexual-assault sexual-assault-victim testimonial-statements | Whether the Confrontation Clause permits the prosecution to introduce the testimonial statements of a non-testifying sexual assault victim lay witness… |
| 21-8128 | Duane Williams v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-06-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause confrontation-right criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-standard mandatory-conditions revocation-hearing standard-conditions supervised-release witness-testimony | Whether the district court erred by revoking Mr. Williams' supervised release status, and returning him to prison. This overall issue consists of the … |
| 21-8139 | Duenta Grier v. Georgia | Georgia | 2022-06-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | availability confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process government-agent minors testimonial-hearsay witness-availability | Was the Confrontation Clause violated when the State presented testimonial hearsay consisting of out-of-court statements to a government agent alleged… |
| 21-8054 | Carlos Johnson v. Dan Reddington, Warden | Missouri | 2022-06-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-rights crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process evidence-law habeas-corpus hearsay probation-revocation | To guarantee fairness, should criminal defendants in probation revocation proceedings be provided under the due process clause with a more robust righ… |
| 21-7978 | Patrick Clay Kunkel v. California | California | 2022-05-26 | Denied | IFP | brady-violation confrontation-clause double-jeopardy due-process newly-discovered-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment | 1. Where petitioner received a conviction for premeditated attempted murder and attempted manslaughter of two individuals, were such that petitioner w… |
| 21-7943 | Anthony Gerald Wernsman v. Colorado | Colorado | 2022-05-23 | Denied | IFP | colorado-courts confrontation-clause confrontation-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process harmless-error self-incrimination witness-intoxication | WHETHER THE COLORADO COURTS WRONGLY CONCLUDED THAT A DENIAL OF CROSS-EXAMINATION ON WITNESSES INTOXICATION DID NOT IMPLICATE PETITIONER 'S CONFRONTATI… |
| 21-7854 | Michael G. Peters v. David Hittner, Judge | Fifth Circuit | 2022-05-13 | Dismissed | IFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination hearsay sixth-amendment unavailability | Question not identified. |
| 21-7856 | William Garrido v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-05-13 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process prosecutorial-conduct prosecutorial-misconduct read-back-testimony right-to-fair-trial witness-testimony | 1. Whether a trial court violates a criminal defendant's constitutional right to due process of law by permitting a prosecutor to introduce previous u… |
| 21-7869 | Timothy Thibodeaux v. Tim Hooper, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2022-05-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause confrontation-right constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment pro-se-petition sixth-amendment | 1: Reasonable Jurists would determined that Mr. Thibodeaux's conviction was obtained in violation of the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United… |
| 21-7872 | Steven Guardado v. Billy K. Sipe, Jr., et al. | Arizona | 2022-05-13 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | compulsory-process confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-constitution federal-question judicial-remedy pandemic-court state-courts | STEVEN GUARDADO FILED AN APPLICATION FOR A WRIT OF MANDAMUS IN THE SUPREME COURT OF ARIZONA REQUESTING AN ORDER TO THE STATE TRIAL COURT TO COMPLY WIT… |
| 21-7827 | Stephen Luis Haro v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-05-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause due-process evidence-rule fair-trial government-negligence material-witness sixth-amendment trial-court | 1. Whether the trial court deprived Haro of his Sixth Amendment right to confrontation when it admitted at trial the unconfronted, out-of-court testim… |
| 21-7698 | Daniel Davis v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-04-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause correctional-officer evidence hearsay prison sixth-amendment | 1) Was the Sixth Amendment guaranty of the right of confrontation denied by the trial introduction of a handwritten statement of a state prison correc… |
| 21-7677 | Kyle Maurice Parks v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-04-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-violation criminal-conviction due-process fabricated-evidence fourth-amendment human-trafficking illegal-search probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant | (1) Whether the district Court acted properly when it was denied 28 U.S.C. §2255 relief to the petitioner when evidence reveals law enforcement misco… |
| 21-7610 | Terry Smith v. Florida, et al. | Florida | 2022-04-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | autopsy autopsy-testimony confrontation-clause due-process evidence forensic-evidence hearsay medical-examiner sixth-amendment testimony | 1. Does Florida's practice of allowing a medical examiner to testify to an autopsy he/she did not perform violate the Confrontation Clause when the me… |
| 21-7618 | Tony Gene Williams, Sr. v. Texas | Texas | 2022-04-13 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | confrontation-clause due-process habeas-corpus hearsay-testimony insufficient-evidence jailhouse-snitch newly-discovered-evidence sixth-amendment | WHETHER OR NOT JUDGE MCCLURE OF THE TEXAS COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS, AFTER EXAMINING PETITIONER'S APPEAL, ERRED WHEN HE DETERMINED HE WOULD GRANT P.D.… |
| 21-7572 | Rebekah Rachell Shropshire v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2022-04-07 | Denied | IFP | compulsory-process confrontation-clause due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial right-to-present-a-defense | I would like to Know wohy am I incarcerated and denied reliet from the state of Texas for the violation of my Constitutional rights after cessive dela… |
| 21-7567 | Cornell Devore Rhymes v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-04-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment confrontation-clause constitutional-confrontation credibility criminal-defendant-rights evidence-rule-412 federal-rule-of-evidence-412 prior-sexual-history sex-trafficking witness-testimony | Does a court violate a defendant's constitutional right to confront witnesses against him when, in a non-consensual sex trafficking case, the court re… |
| 21-7478 | Derrick Jerome Spencer v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-03-28 | Denied | IFP | 1st-amendment capital-punishment civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts standing takings | Whether Petitioner is being deprived of his civil right to "equal" due process of law in violation of "the Constitution and laws of the United States.… |
| 21-1291 | Rodney Muschette v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-03-24 | Denied | Response Waived | 404(b)-evidence 5th-amendment circuit-split confrontation-clause due-process fifth-amendment fundamentally-unfair-trial hearsay-testimony sixth-amendment | I. Was Mr. Muschette Denied his 5th Amendment Right to Due Process when Admission of 404(b) evidence in violation of the test set forth in this Court'… |
| 21-1247 | Karina Rafter v. Virginia | Virginia | 2022-03-15 | Denied | Response Waived | bias confrontation-clause out-of-court-statements reliability sixth-amendment state-of-mind-exception unreliability | Does the admission of out-of-court statements of a decedent, offered under the state-of-mind exception, violate the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth … |
| 21-7370 | Dante Leon Milon v. Tim Hooper, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2022-03-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause due-process fair-trial impartial-jury ineffective-counsel judicial-misconduct jury-misconduct mistrial recusal trial-errors witness-testimony | I) If there is a critical discrepancy within the record Is die transcript complete? And a new trial; permitted? Pg 26 2. A witness allowed to give a… |
| 21-7358 | Joseph Elliott v. George Little, Acting Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. | Third Circuit | 2022-03-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | capital-case certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause ineffective-assistance jury-selection out-of-court-statements right-to-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-preparation | 1. Whether, in accordance with Miller-El v. Cockrell, 537 U.S. 322, 327 (2003), Petitioner made a showing that reasonable jurists would debate whether… |
| 21-7316 | Richard Duerson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-03-08 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | absent-witness confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admission hearsay hearsay-testimony judicial-discretion judicial-proceedings just-conclusion officer-testimony | OF THE CONFRONTATION CLAUSE? |
| 21-7290 | James L. Caudle v. Florida | Florida | 2022-03-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause confrontation-rights constitutional-protections cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process ex-parte-communication impartial-jury life-imprisonment presumption-of-innocence | I. Whether the fight to due process of law has been denied by State courts allowing the State to evade addressing whether the right to confront the on… |
| 21-7242 | Michael Wayne Kelly v. Texas | Texas | 2022-03-01 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review confrontation-clause confrontation-right criminal-defense evidence evidence-exclusion right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment trial-court-error witness-testimony | Did ths Court of Appeals err when it held that the trial court didnot commit error in excluding evidence that deprived Petitioner of his Sixth Amendme… |
| 21-7213 | Kwasi McKinney v. Arkansas | Arkansas | 2022-02-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-jurisdiction compulsory-process confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection postconviction-relief speedy-trial | 1. WHEN DOES THE DIRECT APPEAL OF A JURY TRIAL CONVICTION OF SIX (6) DIFFERENT CRIMINAL OFFENSES AND SENTENCE BECOME FINAL? 2. IF A STATE TRIAL COURT… |
| 21-7109 | Jamie Mills v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-02-14 | Denied | IFP | certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington due-process forensic-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice | Whether, given that the district court's agreement that Mr. Mills was denied the opportunity to confront the forensic analyst in this case, did Mr. Mi… |
| 21-7051 | Demarcus Antwon Chatmon v. Texas | Texas | 2022-02-03 | Denied | IFP | body-camera body-camera-recording confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process hearsay hearsay-exception police-evidence primary-purpose testimonial-statement | The Confrontation Clause grants defendants the right to confront witnesses against them. Here, the trial court overruled objections and allowed accusa… |
| 21-7033 | Oscar Alvarado v. Eric Tice, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset, et al. | Third Circuit | 2022-02-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review co-defendant-statement confrontation-clause harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence | I. Whether the United States Court of Appeal's for the Third Circuit entered a decision in conflict with the decision of several other United States C… |
| 21-6980 | Michael R. Fowler v. Robert Fox, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2022-01-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence hearsay | unconFrontedstatements Whather a victims to police wre admissible at trial onthe grounds of unavailability by forfeiture where no affirmcaused +he wi… |
| 21-993 | Willard Anthony v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2022-01-12 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (10) | confrontation-clause confrontation-right due-process fair-trial harmless-error presumption-of-innocence prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-testimony structural-error witness-credibility | Whether the presumption of innocence, the right to confrontation, and the right to a fair trial permit a court to allow the grand jury prosecutor to t… |
| 21-6721 | Tyrone Anderson v. Delaware | Delaware | 2021-12-23 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment 6th-amendment confrontation-clause due-process fair-trial hearsay ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction standard-of-review trial-counsel | Does it Constitute Ineffective Assistance of Counsel to Fail to object to a statement From the state's Chief Witness who claimed that a Non-Testifying… |
| 21-911 | Dan V. Sharp v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-12-21 | Denied | Response Waived | confrontation-clause constructive-possession criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process firearms-offense ineffective-assistance joinder motion-to-suppress severance | Whether the Court erred in failing to sever the counts by date. Whether the Court erred in requiring the Appellant to appear in shackles in front of … |
| 21-6653 | Urban Fermin v. Anthony J. Annucci, Acting Commissioner, New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision | Second Circuit | 2021-12-17 | Denied | IFP | business-records confrontation-clause criminal-procedure dna-evidence evidence hearsay hearsay-exception sixth-amendment | Whether the business record exception to hearsay survives the United States Constitution's Sixth Amendment Confrontation Clause when the regularly con… |
| 21-6635 | Larry Alonzo Gibbs, Jr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-12-16 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process hearsay hearsay-evidence relevance reliability witness-testimony | Does the State of Florida violate a defendant's right to confront witnesses when they allow the State to introduce evidence that a minor suffered from… |
| 21-873 | Damon Goodloe v. Christine Brannon, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2021-12-14 | Denied | Response Waived | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure custody due-process show-up show-up-identification sixth-amendment witness-testimony | Whether the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment permits the prosecution to introduce statements elicited at a show-up conducted after the lone… |
| 21-6374 | Howard Paul Guidry v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2021-11-23 | Denied | IFP | certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause confrontation-rights exculpatory-evidence fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default racial-discrimination | Whether the Fifth Circuit, in this appeal of the denial of a certificate of appealability, improperly addressed the merits of the habeas claims rather… |
| 21-6375 | Thomas Dudney v. Jeff Macomber, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2021-11-22 | Denied | IFP | certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause due-process exculpatory-evidence hearsay-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel perjury sixth-amendment | Thomas Dudney's conviction when actually innocent highlights a national issue: the unacceptably high rate of such convictions, reflected in numerous e… |
| 21-6163 | Gerard M. Lynch v. New York State Justice Center for the Protection of People With Special Needs | New York | 2021-11-04 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | administrative-adjudication confrontation-clause confrontation-rights credibility-of-witnesses due-process hearsay-evidence occupational-debarment state-agency worker-rights | The Respondent "Justice Center," a New York State agency, has a standard practice of routinely allowing uncorroborated hearsay evidence —for example, … |
| 21-637 | William Lee, Superintendent, Eastern Correctional Facility v. James Garlick | Second Circuit | 2021-11-01 | Denied | autopsy-report confrontation-clause deference habeas-corpus harmless-error testimonial | 1. In granting habeas corpus relief to a state court prisoner, did the Second Circuit create a circuit split and deny the state court judgment the def… | |
| 21-6085 | Robert George Knecht, Jr. v. Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Florida | 2021-10-27 | Denied | IFP | 1st-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment standing | Question not identified. |
| 21-6098 | Hector Enamorado, aka Vida Loca v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-10-27 | Denied | IFP | bruton-doctrine bruton-v-united-states codefendant-confession confrontation-clause criminal-procedure evidence multi-defendant-trial multi-defendant-trials rico-conspiracy sixth-amendment | Petitioner Hector Enamorado was convicte d on a single count of conspiracy to violate the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), … |
| 21-618 | Armand Jones v. Mississippi | Mississippi | 2021-10-27 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | codefendant-conduct codefendant-liability confrontation-clause confrontation-right criminal-procedure forfeiture-by-wrongdoing sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence witness-unavailability | Whether a defendant forfeits his Sixth Amendment right to confront a witness against him when the defendant did not engage in conduct designed to prev… |
| 21-6081 | Gerund Mickens, aka Breeze v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-10-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland confrontation-clause criminal-investigation due-process evidence-preservation fifth-amendment sixth-amendment | Whether Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment, and the confrontation clause of the Sixth Amendment and … |
| 21-6089 | Edward N. Daniels v. Bobbi Jo Salamon, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. | Third Circuit | 2021-10-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bruton-precedent bruton-v-united-states co-conspirator co-defendant confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence-admissibility precedent | DID THE LOWER COURT ERR WHEN THEY REFUSED TO APPLY THIS COURT'S PRECEDENT IN BRUTON V. UNITED STATES, 391 U.S. 123 (1968) WHEN THE CO-CONSPIRATOR / C… |
| 21-6053 | Jimmie Barge v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-10-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alleyne apprendi apprendi-violation certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment prison-releasee-reoffender sixth-amendment | Is the Florida State trial court erring when sentencing Petitioner to minimum mandatory term of life in prison because the Prison Releasee Reoffender … |
| 21-576 | Benjamin Forrest Carter v. Virginia | Virginia | 2021-10-20 | Denied | Response Waived | confrontation-clause constitutional-violation criminal-procedure hearsay hearsay-testimony judicial-error prior-testimony remedy sixth-amendment | Whether the Supreme Court of Virginia erred in affirming the judgment of the Court of Appeals of Virginia, which affirmed the defendant's convictions … |
| 21-6012 | Michael Rimmer v. Tennessee | Tennessee | 2021-10-20 | Denied | IFP | capital-trial confrontation-clause criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fundamental-fairness prosecutorial-misconduct trial-fairness witness-unavailability | 1. Whether the courts below erred by upholding the trial court's determination that the only witness to petitioner's purported jailhouse confession wa… |
| 21-556 | Alexander P. Bebris v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-10-15 | Denied | Response Waived | confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure evidentiary-hearing evidentiary-hearings pretrial-hearing pretrial-hearings sixth-amendment witness-credibility | Does the Sixth Amendment and Confrontation Clause apply to all pretrial evidentiary hearings implicating the credibility of a witness? |
| 21-5851 | Daniel Bryan Kelly, Jr. v. California | California | 2021-10-04 | Denied | IFP | child-witness confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial gang-related-crime ineffective-counsel trial-rights witness | • WM UaSn4 x allowed 4o -fixce. mw accuser or cross- examine. Won a\ final ? * WhW cJoulclo4 /AW A\4omeV5/ MarK S-taPlefioo . Trai/i S S4roud and Ste… |
| 21-5856 | Raymond LeQuan Gibbs v. Neil McDowell, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2021-10-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bias confrontation-clause credibility criminal-trial cross-examination informant-testimony informant-witness sixth-amendment witness-credibility | The Sixth Amendment's Confrontation Clause guarantees a criminal defendant a reasonable opportunity to cross-examine the witnesses against him. The br… |
| 21-5830 | Bradley David Johnson v. Stuart Sherman, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2021-09-30 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process evidence sixth-amendment | Question not identified. |
| 21-5807 | Christian Estrada Comacho v. Nebraska | Nebraska | 2021-09-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause covid-19 covid-19-exception criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process interpreter-testimony two-way-video video-testimony witness-demeanor witness-testimony | 1. Did the district court err when it allowed testimony via two-way interactive video on foundational or "factual scenario" grounds over confrontati… |
| 21-5729 | Frank R. Stevenson v. New York | New York | 2021-09-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review confrontation-clause due-process federal-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment state-court-appeals writ-of-error-coram-nobis | Whether the New York Court of Appeals precedential case, on confrontation violation claims, is contrary to clearly established federal law, as establi… |
| 21-5756 | Gettus Leroy Mintz v. Arizona | Arizona | 2021-09-22 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights confrontation-clause criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process equal-protection false-testimony forensic-evidence grand-jury sixth-amendment witness-testimony | Question not identified. |
| 21-5687 | Darrell Hochhalter v. Jason Clendenion, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2021-09-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment confrontation-clause due-process false-evidence impeachment plain-error recent-fabrication witness-impeachment | 1.) As some jurisdictions have rules regarding recent fabrication and others do not; does "recent fabrication " rise to the same significance as "fals… |
| 21-5666 | William Marcellus Campbell v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-09-15 | Denied | IFP | 6th-amendment abuse-of-discretion appellate-review confrontation-clause cooperating-witness criminal-procedure de-novo-review sentencing | 1. There is a split in the federal courts of appeals and several state courts regarding the following question: Whether a Defendant's 6th Amendment Co… |
| 21-5576 | Victor Shawn Brown v. Debbie Asuncion, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2021-09-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | compulsory-process confrontation-clause due-process fair-trial prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility | cX w^pce^tr ^'o'T ^osiLOjVocs Vo VcV^ uOrWss.es WvocV -Wey CcecVWA'vVy ,t tUe^ cxWciC VW. ccecSvWvVtVv peVVicvv^r's t^VWvesses Vy cxAAI vnc^ -W-e*^ … |
| 21-5504 | Eric Worley v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-08-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | base-offense-level burden-of-proof confrontation-clause criminal-procedure drug-quantity evidence preponderance-of-evidence presentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines | The Appellant's Appeal was denied on June 1, 2021 by the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. In this case, the Appellant raised one (1) issue for determin… |
| 21-5438 | Noe Gerardo Morin v. Bobby Lumpkin. Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2021-08-20 | Denied | IFP | brady-disclosure confrontation-clause crawford-standard crawford-v-washington fundamental-fairness hearsay hearsay-statement ineffective-counsel non-testimonial prejudice right-to-confront testimonial | Mr.Morin alleges that the district court erred by mischaracterizing • statements from a non-testifying witness, resulting in severe prejudice agains… |
| 21-5398 | Scott Estes v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-08-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process emergency-call evidence hearsay-exception sixth-amendment testimonial-statements | Did the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit fail to correctly apply the objective primary purpose test for testimonial statements mad… |
| 21-5405 | George A. Luna v. Anna Valentine, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2021-08-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights confrontation-clause domestic-violence due-process evidentiary-rule federal-jurisdiction forfeiture-by-wrongdoing hearsay-exception pleadings standing witness-unavailability | Under Giles v., California can a State constitutionally introduce a murder victim's out. of court statements to others about defendant's abuse/ pursua… |
| 21-210 | Wisconsin v. Mark D. Jensen | Wisconsin | 2021-08-13 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure domestic-abuse emergency-exception future-crime ongoing-emergency sixth-amendment testimonial-hearsay | 1. Can a person's statement expressing fear about a possible future crime be testimonial under the Sixth Amendment's Confrontation Clause? 2. When a … |
| 21-5362 | Robert Lee Crawford v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-08-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause due-process fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation law-enforcement-misconduct misrepresentation pretextual-stop seizure warrantless-search | A. Is the Fourth Amendment violated when a warrantless off-site forced entry search of a gunsafe is preceded by a warrantless seizure of the gunsafe f… |
| 21-5366 | Abram K. Sollman v. Nebraska | Nebraska | 2021-08-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hearsay-evidence witness-testimony | I. WHETHER OR NOT THE NEBRASKA COURTS RELIANCE ON A WITNESS STATEMENTS (Sean Nowling) INDUCED THE STATE'S (Respondent) CASE-IN-CHIEF VIA ERRONEOUS OR … |
| 21-5367 | Roger Everett Smith, III v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-08-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alien-transporting alienage confrontation-clause criminal-procedure deposition-testimony good-faith-effort material-witnesses sixth-amendment witness-procurement | Whether the mailing of form letters addressed to three material witnesses in three small villages in Mexico approximately two weeks before trial amoun… |
| 21-5309 | Zachary Cooper v. Virginia | Virginia | 2021-08-06 | Denied | IFP | actual-bias conflict-of-interest confrontation-clause due-process fraud judicial-bias judicial-conduct judicial-recusal standard-of-review state-judicial-conduct trial-procedure | 1. Does the Due Process Clause require the recusal of a trial judge when a conflict of interest arises from their participation in an earlier proceedi… |
| 21-5294 | Wilshaun King v. Mike Brown, Acting Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2021-08-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | autopsy-report confrontation-clause criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-examiner plea-bargaining plea-offer right-to-counsel sixth-amendment | I. PETITIONER'S TRIAL COUNSEL WAS APPROACHED AT THE TIME THE JURY RETIRED FOR DELIBEARITONS BY PROSECUTING ATTORNEY SCOTT EHLFELDT TENDERING A PLEA O… |
| 21-5255 | Nathaniel B. Appleby-El v. Maryland | Maryland | 2021-07-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence evidence-admission right-to-counsel witness-testimony | 1. Whether such extensive reliance on transcripts, denied Mr. Appleby-El's federal right of confrontation, because doing so effectively prevented him … |
| 21-5238 | Deyaa Khalill v. W. L. Montgomery, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2021-07-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process preliminary-hearing sixth-amendment | Whether the admission of preliminary hearing testimony violates a criminal defendant's Sixth Amendment right to confrontation when the preliminary hea… |
| 21-5211 | Edwin Artis Pettaway v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-07-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confidential-informant confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure drug-possession due-process firearm-possession search-and-seizure search-warrant sentencing | 1. Was Mr. Pettaway denied his constitutional right to present a complete defense? 2. Where multiple additional errors affected petitioner's convicti… |
| 21-39 | Benjamin Ramirez Ruiz v. California | California | 2021-07-12 | Denied | Response Waived | child-protective-services confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure evidence-law ongoing-emergency sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence testimonial-statement | Was a statement made to a child protective services investigator testimonial for the purposes of the Sixth Amendment Confrontation Clause as establish… |
| 20-8435 | Vladimir Eugene v. Florida | Florida | 2021-06-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment confrontation-clause due-process equal-protection evidence fair-trial fourteenth-amendment hearsay ineffective-assistance non-hearsay-purpose | I. WHETHER OTHERWISE INADMISSIBLE NONTESTIMONIAL HEARSAY, WHICH FALLS WITHIN NO STATUTORY HEARSAY EXCEPTION, ADMITTED FOR NON-HEARSAY PURPOSE AND THER… |
| 20-8416 | Raul Ramos v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-06-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process hearsay-evidence sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment united-states-v-haymond | Whether the district court's reliance on hearsay evidence to impose a guideline sentence of life violates Ramos's right to confront and cross-examine … |
| 20-8428 | Joseph George v. M. Eliot Spearman, Warden, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-06-24 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-testimony sixth-amendment | Does false evidence and expert witness perjured testimony the alleged victim suffered a fracture of the zygomatic buttress qualify for the Schlup doct… |
| 20-1790 | Alston Campbell, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-06-23 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (2) | accomplice-witness accomplice-witnesses appellate-review confrontation-clause cross-examination due-process sentencing-benefits standard-of-review | 1. There is a split among the courts of appeals and several states on the following question: Whether a trial court violates a defendant's rights unde… |
| 20-8366 | Larry Dean Garrett, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-06-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | coercion confrontation-clause criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule false-statements fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment jury-bias plea-negotiation search-and-seizure sixth-amendment | Question not identified. |
| 20-8345 | Ricky Parkerson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-06-17 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | burden-of-production burden-of-proof confrontation-clause due-process sentencing sixth-amendment | 1. Whether the Fifth Circuit's practice of shifting the burden of production and proof to the defendant at sentencing violates a defendant's Due Proce… |
| 20-8312 | Ronald Delester Burke v. Washington | Washington | 2021-06-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination nurse-examiner sexual-assault sexual-assault-nurse-examiner sixth-amendment testimonial-statements | Does the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment prohibit a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner from testifying about statements made during a forensic … |
| 20-8307 | Lamar McKnight v. Josie Gastelo, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2021-06-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause cross-examination due-process evidence expert-testimony gang-enhancement gang-expert jury-instruction natural-probable-consequences right-to-confront testimonial-hearsay | I. Should a COA Have Been Granted to Decide If the Trial Court's Admission of the Gang Expert's Testimonial Hearsay Deprived McKnight of His Right to … |
| 20-8266 | Eric Lucas v. Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-06-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment 6th-amendment confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process hearsay hearsay-evidence ineffective-assistance jury-trial prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment | Whether Petitioner 's Constitutional Rights Under The 5th, 6th And 14th Amendments Were Violated When The State 's Motions To Allow Hearsay Evidence… |
| 20-8192 | Jorge Ramon Newball-May v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-06-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure jurisdiction jury-trial maritime-drug-law maritime-law pre-trial-hearing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act, 46 U.S.C. 70501 et. seq., is unconstitutional on its face and in violation of the Sixth Amendment right… |
| 20-8164 | Michael Mosley v. John Rich, Superintendent, Elmira Correctional Facility | Second Circuit | 2021-05-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence circumstantial-evidence confrontation-clause due-process habeas-corpus herrera-v-collins ineffective-counsel schlup-v-delo sixth-amendment | In this wholly circumstantial case where the Petitioner has alibi, and after trial presents: 1) substantial new exculpatory witnesses and evidence sho… |
| 20-8174 | Esad Lemo v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2021-05-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process intellectual-disability language-access language-interpretation mental-capacity police-interrogation right-to-interpretation sixth-amendment | Is the Constitution violated where a defendant who speaks only Bosnian and has an IQ of 57 receives no interpretation during the suppression hearing t… |
| 20-1649 | Ronald Jeremy Hyatt v. California | California | 2021-05-26 | Denied | confrontation-clause due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourteenth-amendment preliminary-hearing sixth-amendment witness-disclosure | Whether the prosecution may refuse to disclose the names and address of the 23 victims and additional witnesses it intends to call at petitioner's pre… | |
| 20-8151 | Marcus D. Williams v. California | California | 2021-05-26 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility forensic-evidence forensic-testing hearsay hearsay-evidence testimonial-statement testimonial-statements | 1. What degree of formality is necessary before hearsay statements contained within a forensic testing report which connect an accused to the testing … |
| 20-8099 | Joseph Reinwand v. Susan Novak, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2021-05-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause confrontation-rights due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus sixth-amendment testimonial-statements | 1. Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Failed to Apply the Law on Deceased out-of-court testimonial Statements by a Non-testifying Witness. T… |
| 20-8095 | Pasqual Lozano v. Robert Legrand, Warden, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-05-20 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause due-process fair-trial federal-prisoners habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit petition-for-review prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing | Question not identified. |
| 20-8054 | Joseph Reinwand v. Susan Novak, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2021-05-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause confrontation-rights due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus sixth-amendment | 1. Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Failed to apply the Law Deceased out-of-court testimonial Statements by a Non-testifying Witness. Ther… |
| 20-1605 | Justin Terrell Atkins v. Timothy Hooper, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2021-05-18 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | aedpa brecht-v-abrahamson confrontation-clause habeas habeas-corpus harmless-error harmlessness preservation-rule sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether, as concluded by every circuit that has considered the issue, the preservation rule applies to the State's forfeiture of harmlessness in AEDPA… |
| 20-8046 | Shawn Bishop v. Chad Wakefield, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Smithfield, et al. | Third Circuit | 2021-05-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | codefendant-confession confrontation-clause criminal-procedure curative-instruction due-process ineffective-assistance scant-evidence witness-testimony | 1. Does a curative instruction remedy a Confrontation Clause violation where the evidence used to convict is scant and the codefendant's alleged confe… |
| 20-8028 | Ryan Jason Brannon v. Texas | Texas | 2021-05-14 | Denied | IFP | accuser available-to-testify confrontation-clause criminal-defendant cross-examination due-process right-to-confront sixth-amendment witness-testimony | Whether the plain language of the Sixth Amendment's Confrontation Clause gives a defendant the literal right to confront and cross-examine their accus… |
| 20-1565 | Michael Ryan Mitchan v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-05-11 | Denied | Response Waived | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process hearsay hearsay-evidence relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines | 1. Should defendants in criminal cases be permitted to confront witnesses against them at sentencing when their uncorroborated hearsay statements are … |
| 20-7990 | Jose Meza v. Stuart Sherman, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2021-05-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bruton-v-united-states co-defendant-statements co-defendants confrontation-clause constitutional-procedure crawford-v-washington criminal-evidence informant ninth-circuit-interpretation testimonial testimonial-statements | 1. Did the Ninth Circuit err in holding that Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36 (2004) effectively and silently overruled Bruton v. United States, 39… |
| 20-1470 | Thomas A. Jeffrey v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2021-04-20 | Denied | Response Waived | confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process emergency-medical-treatment evidence-collection sexual-assault testimonial-evidence | Whether statements made by a suspected sexual assault victim at the emergency room to hospital personnel during the sexual assault evidence collection… |
| 20-7774 | Kevin Johnson v. Texas | Texas | 2021-04-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review civil-rights confrontation-clause criminal-procedure double-standard due-process evidentiary-standard expert-testimony forensic-evidence ineffective-assistance post-conviction | Did the trial an%or appeal court err by allowing the testisying "erperts" to use statements of unadijucated witnesses as bisis for their opinion and p… |
| 20-7729 | Casey Rose v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-04-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | competency-hearing confrontation-clause cooperating-witness cross-examination due-process impeachment indiana-v-edwards self-representation witness-impeachment | Whether the termination of cross-examination of a cooperating with incentives to lie prior to being able to impeach the witness violated the confronta… |
| 20-7700 | Robert Ibarra v. W. L. Montgomery, Acting Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2021-04-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | co-defendant-statements co-perpetrator-statements confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process evidence-exclusion first-degree-murder hearsay right-to-defense right-to-present-defense | Does the exclusion of statements by a co-perpetrator that he was solely responsible for the charged murder and the defendant was innocent, including t… |
| 20-1401 | James Dennis v. Virginia | Virginia | 2021-04-06 | Denied | Response Waived | confrontation-clause constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process false-evidence fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment prosecutor prosecutorial-misconduct | A. Does any Court have the authority to extinguish a defendant's due process rights via the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment by allowing the prosecutor … |
| 20-7666 | Willie Ponder v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-04-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2253 28-usc-2254 actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel | 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 counse… |
| 20-7664 | Jessie Willie Green v. Willis Chapman, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2021-04-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause due-process exculpatory-evidence identification-evidence identification-procedures ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment | Question not identified. |
| 20-7644 | Skip Hansen v. Kentucky | Kentucky | 2021-04-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-exclusion fourteenth-amendment right-to-defense right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment witness-testimony | Did the Kentucky Court of Appeals allow Mr. Hansen 's right to present a full and complete defense, which is protected by the Sixth and Fourteenth Ame… |
| 20-7600 | Antonio Navarro v. California | California | 2021-03-30 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment translation-evidence witness-testimony | Question not identified. |
| 20-7574 | Robert K. Rymer v. United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit | Seventh Circuit | 2021-03-26 | Denied | IFP | 6th-amendment brady-violation civil-rights confrontation-clause due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment | Rymer's state trial violated,Inef. Ass't. of Counsels '/Government by Due Process Cl. 1 Deprived of 6th amdt. attached counsel right by S.P.D. Kuech,… |
| 20-1347 | Selvin Eduardo Zecena-Valdez v. Nevada | Nevada | 2021-03-25 | Denied | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility fair-trial prior-bad-acts reverse-404(b) sexual-assault | Whether the Supreme Court of Nevada's interpretation and application of Nevada Revised Statute ("NRS") 48.045(2) deprived Mr. Zecena of his right to a… | |
| 20-7547 | Saloman Martinez v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-03-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-discretion kentucky-law sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment standard-of-proof supreme-court-precedent | "VVvc G?ccoA * DecetuVi-er 11, Z02 -0 •\Vv£. uvu-V^A sAaFtS C^sAcnIcA' GoOfAr Qa^ senA-e/vc-e\A} WArWfC q^aOoa. roVi»Mj -\ o cx^<^■c \W, £ajz>\rec<\ O… |
| 20-7503 | Mark Randall Jones v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-03-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation gut-feeling mail-chute post-office warrantless-search warrantless-seizure | A. Whether the Warrantless Seizure of Packages from the Mail Chute at the U.S. Post Office Based on Nothing More than a "Gut Feeling" Violates the Fou… |
| 20-7448 | Shuntario Johnson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-03-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | chambers-v-mississippi confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process hearsay jury-instructions right-to-confront-witnesses right-to-present-defense right-to-present-evidence sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth Circuit's decision to affirm the hearsay objection was contrary to Chambers v. Mississippi, 410 U.S. 284, 302 (1973) and its progeny… |
| 20-7443 | Rotimi Salu, et al. v. Denise Miranda, et al. | Second Circuit | 2021-03-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment administrative-procedure administrative-review confrontation-clause due-process employment-termination healthcare-workers hearsay-evidence state-agency state-agency-adjudication | 1. By declining inquiry into a State agency's denial of due process to accused healthcare workers (e.g., the Petitioners), but instead deferring to th… |
| 20-7401 | Ronald Brandon v. Jay Forshey, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2021-03-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights contemporaneous-objection criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction standing state-court-procedure | natal Ligon the handling of the handling of Yhe Old, faction roll ebow) me Tne Abba, Lo filid. Pde i owing Adduony/gusitiona deft. tis Wonatalile, Co… |
| 20-1226 | Tracy Will Vaughn v. Arkansas | Arkansas | 2021-03-05 | Denied | Response Waived | confrontation-clause constitutional-right-to-present-defense counseling-records due-process evidentiary-privilege privilege right-to-defense sexual-assault testimonial-development | Whether, consistent with the constitutional right to present a defense, a state may declare a sexual assault accuser's counseling records absolutely p… |
| 20-7343 | Justin David Williams v. Utah | Utah | 2021-03-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence hearsay sixth-amendment standard-of-review witness-testimony | Why was I denied the right to cross-examine my accused attacker, thereby violating my Sixth Amendment right "the accused shall enjoy the right to be c… |
| 20-7275 | Alvin Herron v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-02-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process hearsay ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interrogation prior-record sixth-amendment | 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 counsel r… |
| 20-7231 | Troy Baker v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-02-24 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | background-evidence circuit-split confrontation-clause criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility investigative-context jury-instructions out-of-court-statements prejudice | Should the Court Grant the Petition to Resolve a Conflict Among the Circuit Courts Over the Propriety of Admitting Out-of-Court Statements That a Defe… |
| 20-1147 | Thomas Jefferson Smallwood v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2021-02-22 | Denied | certificate-of-appealability compulsory-process confrontation confrontation-clause fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment standard-of-review | Should a certificate of appealability issue to determine if defense counsel was ineffective in not making an objection to the exclusion of testimony f… | |
| 20-7190 | Erik Sanchez v. Terry Jacques, Warden | Tenth Circuit | 2021-02-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause consecutive-sentences constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-review judicial-discretion plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief sentencing sentencing-guidelines | IN ORCDER FOR THE SENTENCING COURT TO DEPART FROM THE CONCURCENT SENTENCES REQUIREMENT IN .R.S. S18-1-HOB(3) DOES COOVECNMENT MUST ENTER FACTUAL BASIS… |
| 20-7203 | Chiron Sharrol Francis v. Texas | Texas | 2021-02-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | chambers-v-mississippi confrontation-clause crane-v-kentucky crime-scene-evidence due-process evidence-authentication evidence-preservation fair-trial right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment | 1. The police violate State criminal law, Federal and State regulations, and their own procedures and policies in disposing of and failing to preserve… |
| 20-1132 | DeMichael Tyrone Moore and Derrick Darnell Moore v. Tennessee | Tennessee | 2021-02-19 | Denied | confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination effective-cross-examination federal-law hearsay-exception memory-loss prior-recorded-statement witness-testimony | Whether the Confrontation Clause is violated by admitting a prior recorded statement of a witness who testifies he has no memory of making the stateme… | |
| 20-7114 | Aesha Johnson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-02-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | co-defendant confrontation-clause constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure evidence invited-error plea-agreement | I. Does the admission into evidence of a non-testifying co-defendant's plea agreement which includes a statement implicating the defendant on trial as… |
| 20-7066 | William Echols v. Douglas Fender, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2021-02-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | allied-offenses case-joinder confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process evidence-sufficiency fair-trial joinder trial-fairness | WHETHER ECHOLS WAS DENIED A FAIR AND IMPARTIAL TRIAL DUE TO SEVERAL MAJOR CONSTITUTIONAL AND DUE PROCESS VIOLATIONS THAT INCLUDED AN IMPROPER JOINER O… |
| 20-6918 | Richard Moseley, Sr. v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-01-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conflict-of-law confrontation-clause criminal-law due-process fair-warning overfederalization-of-criminal-law rico rico-statute testimonial-statements unlawful-debt | I. Whether the Court should decide an important question involving the overfederalization of criminal law: namely, whether a defendant is provided fai… |
| 20-6939 | Thomas Nevius v. Gurbir S. Grewal, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. | Third Circuit | 2021-01-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law brady-violation civil-procedure civil-rights co-defendant-confession confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence-admissibility judicial-discretion standing | DID THE DISTRICT COURT ERR WHEN IT DECIDED THAT CO-DEFENDANT (WILLIAM BOSTON) MINIMIZED HIS INVOLVEMENT IN THE HOMICIDE, THEREFORE MAKING HIS CONFESSI… |
| 20-6856 | Lavon Oden v. Neil Turner, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2021-01-14 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | confrontation-clause cross-examination effective-assistance-of-counsel hearsay hearsay-evidence ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment | Was LaVon Oden's Sixth Amendment:.Confrontation Clause right to directly confront witnesses; the right to cross examine adverse witnesses violated, wh… |
| 20-6820 | Eljarod Lawson v. California | California | 2021-01-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-immunity due-process sexual-assault sixth-amendment sixth-fourteenth-amendment testimonial-hearsay witness-unavailability | A. Was the Sixth Amendment right of confrontation violated when the court allowed the use of the prior transcripted testimony of the complaining witne… |
| 20-6845 | Tony Tran v. Wisconsin | Wisconsin | 2021-01-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal confrontation-clause credibility criminal-procedure due-process evidence | 1. whether the circuit coust erred wher the court ruled that Tran Could not elicit evidence to attack the credibility of Tran's accuser. |
| 20-921 | Braulio Marcelo Castillo v. Virginia | Virginia | 2021-01-08 | Denied | Response Waived | child-witness closed-circuit-testimony confrontation-clause crawford-precedent crawford-v-washington criminal-trial due-process maryland-v-craig sixth-amendment | 1. Does the Confrontation Clause allow a non-victim child witness to testify against his father via two-way closed-circuit television when the witness… |
| 20-6748 | Edward David v. Eloy Ituarte, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-12-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence witness | Question not identified. |
| 20-6705 | Ian LaMonte Cormier v. James Comey, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-12-23 | Denied | IFP | compulsory-process confrontation-clause due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment | Question not identified. |
| 20-6453 | Marcos Alejandro Gonzalez Flores v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-11-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process fourth-amendment search-and-seizure suppression-hearing suppression-motion witness-testimony | The lower courts are in conflict about whether the Sixth Amendment's Confrontation Clause, the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause, or some other aut… |
| 20-6397 | Douglas Cornejo v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2020-11-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-disclosure brady-evidence confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process preliminary-hearing prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-present-defense witness-testimony | 1. Should a COA Have Been Granted to Decide If the Prosecutor's Failure to Disclose Brady Evidence Deprived Cornejo of His Right to Confront and Cross… |
| 20-6338 | James H. Smith v. Brian Cook, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2020-11-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aedpa-deference confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-charges deficient-performance federal-claim ineffective-assistance-of-counsel state-court-misconstrue trial-court | 1). Can an attorney demonstrate deficient performance in representing a client while also facing serious criminal charges in the same court. 2). Shou… |
| 20-637 | Darrell Hemphill v. New York | New York | 2020-11-10 | Judgment Issued | Amici (14)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure evidence evidence-law hearsay-exception right-to-confrontation testimonial-hearsay trial-strategy | A litigant's argumentation or introduction of evidence at trial is often deemed to "open the door" to the admission of responsive evidence that would … |
| 20-6185 | Bryan Lamar Brown v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-11-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bruton bruton-rule co-defendant-statement confrontation-clause constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence harmless-error | A suspect in a burglary and homicide called a detective to cooperate. The detective asked him which vehicle he and the others had taken to commit the … |
| 20-6196 | Mark Xavier Wallace v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-11-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-evidence criminal-procedure district-court-procedure due-process evidence fourth-circuit-review hearsay hearsay-testimony standard-of-review | 1. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in affirming that the District Court did not err by admitting inadmissible and highly prejudicial hearsay testimon… |
| 20-6141 | David William Smith v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-10-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof confrontation-clause evidence-rule-701 expert-testimony hearsay-evidence law-enforcement-testimony lay-opinion professional-experience rule-701 rule-702 testimonial-hearsay | This Petition will permit the Court to resolve two profound splits among the federal courts of appeals. The first circuit split concerns when, if at … |
| 20-6138 | Jerry Walker v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction | Arkansas | 2020-10-26 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 6th-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure declaratory-judgment due-process evidence procedural-error sixth-amendment | DECLARATON® FOUOGEMNZNT THAT HE UIAS DEAITED DVE PROCESS ses HES CRIMTMAL etal. whtsI FAE CoORT ADIN TZTED THE pring restimouy oF al vsavartliadee ulr… |
| 20-528 | Nicholas S. Baas v. United States | Armed Forces | 2020-10-20 | Denied | Response Waived | confrontation-clause court-martial daubert-standard due-process scientific-evidence sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict | 1. In light of this Court's decision in Ramos v. Louisiana, does it violate a military servicemember's Sixth Amendment and due process rights to allow… |
| 20-6040 | Charlie Bell Bullock v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Fourth Circuit | 2020-10-15 | Denied | IFP | capital-punishment confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-evidence professional-norms sentencing-phase sixth-amendment standard-of-review victim-rights | 1 -Do ^c, +W CW5t^ VV\Oy4^ CKV/CAl" 1 <\\y £ 0 ^ AV 5 Oy'b yv\v +'h-e<\ <k WcK > S Co^ Viclm Cross ■eAa^v\«ivo\N \ 4 6-C va.m\S.-€.| i Vs. -t. -e_<_-V… |
| 20-485 | Michael Torrence v. Kentucky | Kentucky | 2020-10-14 | Denied | 14th-amendment cell-phone-evidence cell-phone-tower-evidence confrontation-clause cross-examination due-process lay-witness pretrial-identification state-action | WHETHER THE COURT'S RULING THAT CELL PHONE TOWER LOCATION DATA AND INTERPRETATION MAY BE PRESENTED BY AN UNQUALIFIED LAY WITNESS WHO IS UNABLE TO ANSW… | |
| 20-5984 | Ricardo Woods v. Brian Cook, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2020-10-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky confrontation-clause constitutional-law dying-declaration giles-v-california peremptory-challenge sixth-amendment testimonial-statement trial-procedure | This case presents two critical questions of constitutional law, one related to the introduction of a suspect identification, made by a profoundly par… |
| 20-5905 | Travon Jarvel Jackson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-10-05 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility federal-rules-of-evidence rule-412 rule-608b sex-trafficking sixth-amendment witness-impeachment | A. Whether evidence of prior prostitution activity that is inadmissible under Rule 412 of the Federal Rules of Evidence to rebut a claim of sex traffi… |
| 20-5920 | Richard Cortez v. Iowa | Iowa | 2020-10-05 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure disclosure due-process sixth-amendment witness-testimony | Whether a defendant's due process rights are violated when the State's eyewitness primary to the offense testifies under a false name a disclosure to … |
| 20-5888 | Burton Lee Smith v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. | Third Circuit | 2020-10-02 | Denied | IFP | 404(b)-jury-instructions bruton-v-united-states certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause constitutional-rights effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions mug-shot-identification severance-of-defendants sleeping-juror trial-procedure | 1.) Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals Erred in Denying Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability on His Claim that was not Denied His State… |
| 20-5896 | In Re Douglas Weissert | 2020-10-02 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-rights cross-examination evidence-admissibility mental-health prescription-medication sixth-amendment trial-procedure witness-testimony | WHETHER STATE TRIAL COURT VIOLATED SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS WHEN IT FORBADE CROSS EXAMINING ANGLE LEWIS ON MENTAL HEALTH HISTORY AND USE OF PRESCRIPTION… | |
| 20-5870 | Demarcus Clark v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2020-10-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-analysis due-process evidence expert-testimony sixth-amendment | (1) Did the State's admission of the Wood/E Vestim/iy and O/M dpotE of a Su/dOaaEe Da/A adalysi l/L lieuoP+hg achial VA/A aflalysT and O/i/Aj'tpof'E .… |
| 20-5805 | Ian Resnick v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-09-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process fraud-loss overview-testimony sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment testimonial-statements | 1) Whether the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment permits, under the guise of "overview testimony", the admission against a criminal defenda… |
| 20-5818 | Tyrone Johnston v. Kevin Ransom, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. | Third Circuit | 2020-09-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | autopsy certificate-of-appeal circuit-split confrontation-clause confrontation-rights constitutional-provisions district-court due-process habeas-corpus jurists-of-reason third-circuit | DID THE THIRD CIRCUIT ERR IN DENYING A CERTIFICATE OF APPEAL ("COA") BASED UPON A FAILURE TO SHOW ENTITLEMENT TO RELIEF, DESPITE SATISFYING THE REQUIR… |
| 20-5784 | Cedric Jeffries v. Ohio | Ohio | 2020-09-24 | Denied | IFP | complaining-witness confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process evidence prior-sexual-assault rape-shield-law sexual-assault witness-testimony | I. Does a State rape-shield law violate the Constitutional rights to confrontation and due process when it excludes evidence that a complaining witnes… |
| 20-5712 | Marcus Vernell Coleman v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2020-09-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance new-trial prejudice right-of-confrontation strickland-standard strickland-v-washington | 1. Did the federal Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal "apply " the correct legal standard in accordance to Strickland's prejudicial prong when petitioners)… |
| 20-5665 | Nathaniel Marcus Gann v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation | Ninth Circuit | 2020-09-11 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility habeas-corpus testimonial-statements | 1) IS THE ADMISSION OF IRRELEVANT OR OVERTLY PREJUDICIAL EVIDENCE A DUE PROCESS VIOLATION? (AND IS SUCH A VIOLATION SUFFICIENT TO ISSUE A WRIT OF HABE… |
| 20-317 | Dakai Chavis v. Delaware | Delaware | 2020-09-10 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure dna-evidence evidence-admissibility multi-analyst-testing out-of-court-statements testimonial-statements | Whether the Confrontation Clause permits DNA evidence obtained as the result of a multi-analyst testing process to be introduced against the defendant… |
| 20-5536 | Joseph Scott McKinney v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2020-08-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause confrontation-rights criminal-defense due-process evidence evidence-exclusion rape-shield rape-shield-law sixth-amendment | The Constitution guarantees a criminal defendant's meaningful opportunity to present a complete defense. As of now, the Court has not directly address… |
| 20-5520 | Michael Williamson v. Harold May, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2020-08-26 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial hearsay hearsay-statements right-to-witnesses sixth-amendment witness-exclusion | 1) Was Michael Williamson afforded a fair trial and right to confront his accusers or right to witnesses in his favor when the trial court excluded … |
| 20-5483 | Dion Black v. Norm Robinson, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2020-08-25 | Denied | IFP | certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause confrontation-rights cross-examination double-inference-rule effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sufficiency-of-evidence | Should the petitioner have been granted a certificate of appealability where the State courtS/U.S. District Court and Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals d… |
| 20-5439 | Jesse Santibanez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-08-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | ABUSE-OF-DISCRETION CONFRONTATION-CLAUSE confrontation-right CRIMINAL-PROCEDURE CROSS-EXAMINATION district-court-discretion SIXTH-AMENDMENT WITNESS-CREDIBILITY witness-testimony | Question not identified. |
| 20-5425 | Rasheen J. Gamble v. New York | New York | 2020-08-20 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cumulative-error dna-evidence due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct | I. WAS DEFENSE COUNSEL INEFFECTIVE FOR CONSENTING TO THE PROSECUTOR'S EXTREMELY UNTIMELY REQUEST FOR A DNA SAMPLE —A MOVE THAT THE APPELLATE DIVISI… |
| 20-5407 | Dominique Mack v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-08-19 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process evidence jailhouse-informant mandatory-minimum mandatory-sentencing plain-error sentencing statements-against-interest | 1. Should the Court should grant certiorari in order to consider whether this Court's jurisprudence concerning the admission of statements against int… |
| 20-5369 | Don Farmer v. Bernard Booker, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2020-08-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause court-procedure crawford-vs-washington due-process evidence-testimonial ineffective-assistance legal-standards professional-norms sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence verbal-testimony witness-testimony | 1.) Whether the evidence supplied through verbal testimony of a witness is considered testimonial (where statements must be functionally identical to … |
| 20-5331 | Michael A. Bruzzone v. Intel Corporation, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-08-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-procedure anti-SLAPP antitrust civil-rights confrontation confrontation-clause due-process equal-protection retaliation | In a 15 U.S.C. § 1 controversy claiming industry, law, attorney, group boycott, can District and Appellant Courts, one after the next, deny a citizen … |
| 20-5344 | Christopher Taylor v. Illinois | Illinois | 2020-08-13 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP | 6th-amendment autopsy-report cause-of-death confrontation-clause criminal-procedure knowing-murder lesser-included-offense murder-charge sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence | Whether a defendant is denied his Sixth Amendment right to be confronted with the witnesses against him where a court admits into evidence a certified… |
| 20-5297 | Demarius Bridges v. Illinois | Illinois | 2020-08-07 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process hearsay hearsay-testimony right-to-confrontation sixth-amendment standing testimonial-hearsay unavailable-witness | 2. Can unconfronted testimonial hearsay be used to secure the admission at trial of other unconfronted testimonial hearsay? 3. Did the state fail to … |
| 20-5257 | Jimmy McLain Moore v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-08-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourth-amendment law-enforcement right-to-confrontation sixth-amendment witness-communication | 1. Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals failed to decide an important Federal Question regarding the right of a Defendant to confront witnesses … |
| 20-79 | Cedric L. Daniels v. Dave Davey, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2020-07-27 | Denied | Response Waived | confrontation-clause due-process evidence-admission fourteenth-amendment hearsay impeachment-evidence jury-instructions sixth-amendment three-strikes-law | Could a jurist of reason find that petitioner was denied his Sixth Amendment right to confront and cross-examine witnesses and Fourteenth Amendment ri… |
| 20-5116 | Steven B. Anderson v. Thomas Winn, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2020-07-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-trial demonstrative-evidence due-process fair-trial false-testimony ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct | I. Did The State Prosecutor Violate Petitioner's Constitutional Right To Due Process By Presenting Known False Testimony And By Using Inconsistent The… |
| 20-5127 | Thomas Eric Espinoza v. Colorado, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2020-07-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence confrontation-clause constitutional-error due-process expert-examination fair-trial habeas-corpus lab-evidence right-to-present-defense scientific-evidence witness-testimony | Question not identified. |
| 20-5129 | David Aziel Sheer v. Patrick Warren, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2020-07-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment | I. WHETHER THIS COURT SHOULD ISSUE A WRIT OF CERTIORARI IN ORDER TO CORRECT THE SIXTH CIRCUITS DECISION IN DENYING PETITIONER A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALA… |
| 19-8920 | Deshawn Colbert v. Sherry L. Burt, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2020-07-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel new-trial pre-arrest-silence prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment | THE APPELANT'S RIGHT TO CONFRONTATION PURSUANT TO THE SIXTH AMENDMENT OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION WAS VIOLATED AS A RESULT OF INEFFECTIVE ASSIST… |
| 19-8803 | Bennie Adams v. Ohio | Ohio | 2020-06-24 | Denied | IFP | autopsy-report confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure evidence-law sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence | Is an autopsy report testimonial evidence that demands confrontation under Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36 (2004), and the Sixth Amendment to the … |
| 19-8705 | Barry Arkim, aka Edward Mason v. Joseph Noeth, Superintendent, Attica Correctional Facility | New York | 2020-06-15 | Denied | IFP | 5th-amendment 6th-amendment confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process right-to-counsel | teVrtA f.W«iS^r^\i oner's tAcVi©A $ciX hho*\o re\\ef 1 ^ AnS^eV* TVie ^uesViorx v^as nc^ ^jAYeSS^ Ae\6b5<eery |
| 19-8661 | Justo Jonah Santos v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-06-10 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | confrontation-clause criminal-prosecution immigration immigration-law naturalization sixth-amendment testimonial testimonial-evidence | The lower court in this case admitted into evidence an immigration officer's handwritten notes and checkmarks on a naturalization application, made du… |
| 19-8607 | Derrick Thompson v. Patrick Griffin, Superintendent, Sullivan Correctional Facility | Second Circuit | 2020-06-04 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | confrontation-clause fair-trial forensic-analysis forensic-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-fair-trial sixth-amendment speedy-trial testimonial-evidence testimonial-statements | Does the Confrontation Clause permit the prosecution to introduce testimonial identification statements of a non-testifying forensic analyst through t… |
| 19-8514 | Farid Popal v. New York | New York | 2020-05-21 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process post-conviction-hearing post-conviction-proceedings right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment video-testimony witness-coaching | WHETHER TWO-WAY VIDEO TESTIMONY VIOLATES A CRIMINAL DEFENDANT'S CONFRONTATION AND RIGHT TO PRESENT A COMPLETE DEFENSE UNDER SIXTH AMENDMENT TO THE U.S… |
| 19-8519 | James E. Myers v. Nebraska | Nebraska | 2020-05-21 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights confrontation-clause dna-testing due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus substantive-due-process writ-of-certiorari | (1). Whether Procedual Due Process, Substantive Due Process, Equal Protection, and Confrontational Clause have been violated by state concluding pri… |
| 19-8497 | Christopher Lyman v. Kansas | Kansas | 2020-05-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-defendant due-process expert-testimony first-amendment fourteenth-amendment medical-expert religious-discrimination sixth-amendment | Whether a court can deny a criminal defendant his medical expert, who's expert testimony is critical to a material fact in dispute, and base this deni… |
| 19-8477 | Timothy Martin Kendrick v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-05-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech judicial-interpretation sixth-amendment standing | Question not identified. |
| 19-8420 | Charles Wilson v. Wisconsin | Wisconsin | 2020-05-12 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-ruling ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions jury-selection prosecutorial-discretion trial-court-discretion witness-testimony | 1. Whether it is Unconstitutinal for defense Counsel to admit an accueds Suilt to the jury over the accused's objection? And also adMit and accused's … |
| 19-8425 | Chayce Aaron Anderson v. Colorado | Colorado | 2020-05-08 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-rights cross-examination due-process fair-trial jailhouse-informant jury-trial prejudicial-evidence | I. whether the district court erred when it improperly limited the scope of cross-examination of the jail house informant, thereby denying Mr. Anderso… |
| 19-1256 | Jennifer Mae Levin v. Florida | Florida | 2020-04-30 | Denied | Response Waived | cause-of-death confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process dui-manslaughter expert-testimony medical-records sixth-amendment | 1. Whether – in a case involving the charge of DUI manslaughter – the prosecution can meets its burden of proving "cause of death" through the testimo… |
| 19-8326 | Charles Brandon Martin v. Maryland | Maryland | 2020-04-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-violation burden-of-proof confrontation-clause evidence-sufficiency materiality materiality-standard sufficiency-of-evidence voir-dire witness-availability | When a Brady violation (Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963)) occurs, must the Court take into account the effects of the Brady violation, or simply … |
| 19-8270 | Earl Mayberry Johnson, Jr. v. The Florida Bar | Florida | 2020-04-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment attorney-discipline confrontation-clause disbarment due-process equal-protection florida-bar service-of-process | 1. Whether the State of Florida violated the Petitioner's 14th Amendment due process and equal protection rights when it summarily disbarred the Petit… |
| 19-8040 | Jerry Meas v. Osvaldo Vidal, Superintendent, Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center, et al. | First Circuit | 2020-03-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability confrontation confrontation-clause credibility criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence habeas-corpus judicial-discretion sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-confrontation witness-credibility | 1. Whether it is permissible under a criminal defendant's Sixth Amendment right of confrontation for a trial judge to curtail materially relevant cros… |
| 19-8015 | Gabriel Cruz v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-03-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bruton-rule co-defendant-statement codefendant-statement confrontation-clause criminal-appeal criminal-procedure eleventh-circuit non-testimonial non-testimonial-statement severance | Whether the United States Court of Appeal Eleventh Circuit erred in finding that the Bruton rule, does not mandate a severance when a non-testifying c… |
| 19-7994 | David Armondo Butler v. Florida | Florida | 2020-03-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | adversarial-conflict Confrontation-Clause criminal-procedure Due-Process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence-preservation Evidentiary-Issues Fourteenth-Amendment ineffective-assistance prior-acts-of-violence prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel strategic-decision video-footage | Did court-appointed counsel deprive Petitioner of the Sixth Amendment guarantee obtain the video footage were being made create an adversarial conflic… |
| 19-7988 | Junior Jean Baptiste v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-03-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review confrontation-clause criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process evidence harmless-error hearsay hearsay-standard standard-of-review | Where hearsay, consisting of an inculpatory, out-of-court statement made other than to law enforcement, is erroneously introduced to the defendant's p… |
| 19-7946 | Dirk Greineder v. Sean Medeiros, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk | First Circuit | 2020-03-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause dna-evidence dna-testing expert-testimony laboratory-analysis scientific-evidence sixth-amendment substitute-analyst substitute-analysts targeted-accusation | Does the Confrontation Clause prohibit an expert prosecution witness from testifying at a jury trial to the results of DNA tests comparing the petitio… |
| 19-7920 | Iverylee Arashella Johnson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-03-10 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-violation due-process fifth-amendment sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington unreasonable-application unsworn-testimony | Was Johnson's due process and Sixth Amendment confrontation clause protections violated by allowing Powell's unsworn testimony to be presented to the … |
| 19-7925 | Ronald O'Rourke v. Jacqueline Lashbrook, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2020-03-10 | Denied | IFP | 6th-amendment confrontation-clause constitutional-rights counsel criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonable-conduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment suppressed-evidence trial-court-discretion | WHETHER THE Trial Court Abused Discretion in allowing a Rage, Hansa h tlie Oe 2 a, MLN ae AoUurs. is a samt ot OSs stylte of Coupse/ Sok ALling to GQ … |
| 19-7932 | Enrique Auch v. Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 2020-03-10 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination evidence-law feigning memory-loss out-of-court-statements sixth-amendment testimonial-statements witness-testimony | Whether the Confrontation Clause permits the prosecution to introduce out-of-court testimonial statements from a witness who is feigning memory loss a… |
| 19-7942 | Daniel Dale Parsons v. R. Blades, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2020-03-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | adverse-witness co-defendant-guilty-plea co-defendant-statement compulsory-process compulsory-process-clause confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination harmless-error plain-error waiver | I. Has the accused's right of confrontation been converted from the prosecutor's duty under Confrontation Clause into the accused's privilege under th… |
| 19-7830 | Pablo Antonio Pantaleon-Aviles v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-03-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure deportation deportation-warrant evidence illegal-reentry immigration immigration-law sixth-amendment | Whether a warrant of deportation admitted to prove an essential element of the offense of illegal reentry is subject to confrontation under the Sixth … |
| 19-7866 | Farid Popal v. Stephen Brown | Second Circuit | 2020-03-04 | Dismissed | IFP | civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus witness-tampering | WHETHER THE U.S. CONSTITUTION PROTECTS WITNESSES FROM BEING TAMPERED WITH WHEN DETECTIVE WAS WHISPERING INTO HIS EARS DURING LIVE SKYPE TESTIMONY IN… |
| 19-7862 | Wesley Paul Coonce, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-03-03 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment confrontation-clause eighth-amendment equal-protection fifth-amendment intellectual-disability moral-culpability sentencing-hearing | 1. Because the age at which a capital defendant became intellectually disabled does not bear on his moral culpability, did the Court of Appeals err in… |
| 19-7827 | Terry O'Nell Hall v. Texas | Texas | 2020-03-02 | Denied | IFP | co-defendant confrontation-clause criminal-trial cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process evidentiary-inconsistency fundamental-fairness inconsistent-testimony right-to-fair-trial sentencing-disparity victim-testimony witness-testimony | DID THE COURT OF APPEALS ERR IN DECIDE PETITIONER'S RIGHT TD DUE P WAS NOT VIOLATED, WHERE THE VICTIM TESTIFIED ONE WAY DURING HIS TRIAL AND THEN TEST… |
| 19-1065 | Teresa Ann Johnson v. Alaska | Alaska | 2020-02-28 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure expert-testimony forensic-evidence lab-report sixth-amendment surrogate-expert testimonial-evidence | 1. Whether the Confrontation Clause prohibits the prosecution from introducing into evidence at trial a certified lab report reflecting statements of … |
| 19-7819 | Shamsuddin Dost v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-02-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | anonymous-testimony confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process fair-trial sixth-amendment undercover-agents | Is it a violation of the Sixth Amendment to U.S. Constitution, which affords an accused the right to confront his or her accusers, for a court to allo… |
| 19-7802 | Fernando Ramirez Noria v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-02-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alienage confrontation-clause crawford-precedent crawford-v-washington essential-element federal-rules-of-evidence Hearsay non-testifying-agents sixth-amendment | Did the admission of the non-testifying agents' reports of their interviews of the defendant to prove alienage, an essential element of the offense, v… |
| 19-7773 | James Curtis Denton v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-02-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | affidavits business-records confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission hearsay-exception sixth-amendment | Whether the introduction of unconfronted affidavits establishing the foundation for admission of business records violates the Confrontation Clause of… |
| 19-7713 | Ronelle Lamar Oudems v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-02-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof circuit-split confrontation-clause confrontation-right criminal-procedure due-process presentence-report sentencing | Whether (as the D.C., Second, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Circuits hold, see United States U. Price, 409 F.3d 436, 444 (D.C. Cir. 2005; United … |
| 19-7710 | George R. Young v. Wanza Jackson-Mitchell, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2020-02-19 | Denied | IFP | actual-innocence confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-proceeding due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance newly-discovered-evidence self-incrimination state-court-proceedings | On the record in this case, the District Court erred in denying a writ of habeas corpus without a plenary hearing. When an application by a state pri… |
| 19-7603 | Mark D. Jensen v. William Pollard | Seventh Circuit | 2020-02-10 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | confrontation-clause confrontation-right constitutional-error constitutional-violation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus judicial-remedy retrial trial-rights | The federal courts found that his wife's voice-from-the-grave letter violated Jensen's confrontation right and granted his habeas petition, ordering t… |
| 19-7599 | Tracey Smith-Kilpatrick v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | business-records confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington evidence-rule federal-rule-of-evidence-803(6) federal-rules-of-evidence government-use hearsay hearsay-exception record-reliability sixth-circuit testimonial-statement testimonial-statements | Whether business records qualify as inadmissible hearsay when the government uses them as testimonial statements and for purposes other than those for… |
| 19-7540 | Random Jackson v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-02-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2254 attorney-abandonment attorney-neglect confrontation-clause due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus holland-v-florida ineffective-assistance postconviction-proceedings reasonable-diligence state-postconviction | 1. Whether the Petitioner is entitled to equitable tolling in light of his attorney's neglect/abandonment (i.e., after his attorney abandoned him in t… |
| 19-7450 | George Maurice Steele v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-01-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation confrontation-clause confrontation-right criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment revocation-hearing sentencing supervised-release witness-testimony | Whether the district court erred by allowing testimony at the revocation hearing that violated Mr. Steele's Fifth Amendment due process right to confr… |
| 19-7473 | Milon Jarr Brown v. Michigan | Michigan | 2020-01-29 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights discretion due-process expert-testimony fifth-amendment hearsay judicial-bias photographic-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct self-incrimination sixth-amendment | WAS THE PETITIONER DENIED AN OPPORTUNITY TO PRESENT A COMPLETE DEFENSE WHEN A WITNESS FROM THE DEFENSE INVOKED A SPECIOUS FIFTH AMENDMENT CLAIM AGAINS… |
| 19-7485 | Michael J. Aguon v. Warren L. Montgomery, Warden, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-01-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause confrontation-clause-crawford-v-washington crawford-v-washington due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel gang-expert ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miranda-v-arizona miranda-warnings police-investigation police-officer-gang-expert prosecutorial-misconduct testimonial-hearsay | IN LIGHT OF THE FACT THAT THE PROSECUTION'S GANG EXPERT IS AND WAS AT ALL TIMES A POLICE OFFICER ENGAGED IN INVESTIGATING CRIMES WHEN INTERVIEWING ALL… |
| 19-7448 | Dennis Rydbom v. Donnie Ames, Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex | West Virginia | 2020-01-28 | Denied | IFP | Compulsory-Process Confrontation-Clause due-process Equal-Protection fourteenth-amendment-due-process fourteenth-amendment-equal-protection fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-probable-cause fourth-amendment-warrant-requirement sixth-amendment-compulsory-process sixth-amendment-confrontation state-sovereignty | The affidavit for Search Warrant No. 96-166 gave no information linking the place to be searched, 911 East Medlock Drive, Phoenix, Arizona, with Rydbo… |
| 19-7442 | Andrew Lee Williams v. Texas | Texas | 2020-01-27 | Denied | IFP | confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-article-38.41 due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment indefiniteness sixth-amendment vagueness | 1. Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals' recent holdings in ANDREW LEE WILLIAMS v. STATE, No. PD-1199-17 (Tx.Crim.App.- October 9, 2019), regar… |
| 19-7401 | Dumisai H. Hockaday v. Helene Christner, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2020-01-24 | Denied | IFP | administrative-regulations civil-procedure confrontation-clause constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference double-jeopardy due-process exhaustion-of-remedies grievance-process medical-care prison-conditions standing summary-judgment | 1. Whether the underlying activity of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit is ethical or not under Thomas v. Am, 474 U.S. 140, at … |
| 19-7367 | Adalberto Magana-Gonzalez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-01-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | border-patrol confrontation-clause drug-smuggling expert-testimony hearsay prejudicial-error sixth-amendment witness-testimony | Whether the district court committed prejudicial error under the Sixth Amendment when it permitted a DEA agent to tell the jury what a Border Patrol a… |
| 19-7376 | Alice C. Trappler v. New York | New York | 2020-01-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof confrontation-clause conspiracy criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process forfeiture hearsay hearsay-exception legal-insufficiency sixth-amendment waiver | 1. Upon trial counsel's failure to move to dismiss on legal insufficiency grounds at trail, is the uninformed automatic waiver and silently imposed pe… |
| 19-7294 | Mohammed Kwaning v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-01-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process evidence fair-trial hearsay hearsay-testimony judicial-error jury-trial material-evidence preponderance-of-evidence sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Whether the Government officials conduct violated constitutional rights? where;Petitioner's (a) The District Court failed to disclose material eviden… |
| 19-7246 | Keith Harris v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-01-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause crawford-rule crawford-v-washington cross-examination hearsay informants law-enforcement-testimony lay-opinion-testimony right-to-counsel sixth-amendment witness-testimony | whether the admission of law enforcement testimony that goes to whether a defendant was a participant in a conspiracy based on information provided by… |
| 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… |
| 19-7232 | Francisco Argenis Parra v. Joe A. Lizarraga, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2020-01-09 | Denied | IFP | accomplice-statements-corroboration alibi-instruction bruton-v-united-states co-defendant-statements confrontation-clause due-process ineffective-assistance jury-instructions lesser-included-offenses self-defense sixth-amendment supplemental-credibility-instruction | I. Did Trial Counsel Render Ineffective Assistance by Failing to Request an Adequate Supplemental Credibility Instruction? II. Did Trial Counsel Rend… |
| 19-7236 | John Joseph DeBlase v. Alabama | Alabama | 2020-01-09 | Denied | IFP | capital-case codefendant confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process jury-unanimity sixth-amendment waiver | 1. Do the Sixth Amendment and the Due Process Clause permit, in a capital case, the admission of statements of a nontestifying codefendant, acknowledg… |
| 19-7208 | Gbenga Benson Ogundele v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-01-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | chapman-standard confrontation-clause due-process evidence fair-trial federal-rule-of-evidence federal-rules-of-evidence government-evidence sixth-amendment | Whether voluminous amounts of substantive evidence containing prejudicial opinions of government agents held to be erroneously admitted under Federal … |
| 19-7097 | Juan Sanchez v. California | California | 2019-12-30 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process out-of-court-statements prior-testimony testimonial-statements trial-evidence witness-memory witness-testimony | Whether a defendant in a criminal case is denied the opportunity for full and effective cross-examination in violation of the Confrontation Clause by … |
| 19-7066 | Evaristo Toscano v. Joe A. Lizarraga, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2019-12-26 | Denied | IFP | 6th-amendment confrontation-clause due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence-tampering harmless-error judicial-bias prejudice-comments redacted-statement right-to-counsel right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment | Whether a violation of petitioner's right granted by the Confrontation Clause of the United States Constitution was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt… |
| 19-7027 | Patrick T. Hughes v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2019-12-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | accomplice-liability confrontation-clause criminal-conspiracy criminal-homicide due-process eighth-amendment evidence reasonable-doubt | I. Whether the evidence was sufficient to [sustain] a conviction of criminal homicide, criminal conspiracy to commit homicide where the Commonwealth f… |
| 19-6971 | Comfort Delando Roberts v. Texas | Texas | 2019-12-19 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | confrontation-clause due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment impartial-jury ineffective-assistance presumption-of-innocence sixth-amendment | THE "TOTALITY OF REPRESENTATION" SHOWS THE PERFORMANCE OF,COUNSEL, RONALD D. ZIMMERMAN WAS OBJECTIVELY DEFICIENT AND THEREBY DENIED APPELLANT HIS SIXT… |
| 19-7021 | Otis Hunter and Deshawn Evans v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-12-19 | Denied | IFP | bias confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination jury-instructions jury-nullification mandatory-minimum nullification sentencing sixth-amendment witness-cooperation | Whether the Sixth Amendment Confrontation Clause is violated when a court bars a defendant from eliciting the mandatory minimum sentence a prosecution… |
| 19-6956 | Thomas H. Outland v. New Jersey | New Jersey | 2019-12-16 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause credibility criminal-defendant criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-impeachment due-process evidence evidence-rules fair-trial impeachment jury-instructions prior-convictions right-to-present-a-defense | 1. DID THE NEW JERSEY STATE COURT ENDORSE THE USE OF N.J.R.E. 806 AS A VEHICLE FOR IMPEACHING NON-TESTIFYING CRIMINAL DEFENDANTS WITH THEIR PRIOR CONV… |
| 19-6923 | Adrian Alaniz v. Scott Frauenheim, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2019-12-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause confrontation-clause-violation due-process harmless-error hearsay hearsay-evidence justifiable-homicide manslaughter prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct second-amendment self-defense standard-of-review | I. Where the evidence tended to favor a verdict of justifiable homicide or a lesser verdict of manslaughter, has Petitioner presented a "debatable " i… |
| 19-6924 | William D. Thomas v. Mark McCullick, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-12-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bail civil-procedure confrontation confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification identification indictment officer-activity police-conduct preliminary-hearing warrant-inquiry whether a state's failure to meet the reciprocal r | a one on one Confrontation during a preliminary hearng tanted by prior police activity is Sufficient to warrant a Caurt's reliability inquiry. II. Wh… |
| 19-6889 | In Re Joel Law | 2019-12-10 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-2422b 6th-amendment confrontation-clause confrontation-clause-6th-amendment,false-imprisonm constitutional-rights false-imprisonment habeas-corpus immediate-relief judicial-review section-2255 sixth-amendment | 1) Am I entitled to immediate relief from this Court, to protect myself and others similarily situated ,. from being falsely imprisoned pursuant to 1… | |
| 19-6901 | Alonso Barrera-Montes v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-12-10 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review confrontation-clause criminal-procedure department-of-state due-process evidence evidence-admission hearsay hearsay-rule jurisdiction jury-trial | I. THE COURT OF APPEALS CLEARLY ERRED IN UPHOLDING THE DISTRICT COURT'S RULING ADMITTING EVIDENCE AT DEFENDANT'S TRIAL WHICH VIOLATED BOTH THE HEARSAY… |
| 19-6871 | Justin Vazquez v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-12-05 | GVR | IFP | 6th-amendment civil-rights conflict-of-interest confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process evidence-admission ineffective-assistance jury-selection professional-conduct sentencing speedy-trial trial-procedure | Whether in-chief, ineffective of assistance in violation of 6th Amendment (U.S. Const.) is Whether assigned counsel (M. Blagojevich) violated Code of… |
| 19-6660 | Ronald Fay Schermerhorn, Jr. v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2019-11-22 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review confrontation-clause court-of-appeals due-process ex-post-facto fair-trial habeas-corpus statutory-law | When Opinion reflects Appellate Court relies on States Findings, ..and Litigant has asserted, States Findings are not entitled to deference because, p… |
| 19-6715 | Brandon Lashon Ingram v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-11-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review harmless-error harmless-error-analysis ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington | Does Title 28 U.S.C. § 2255(b) automatically require an evidentiary hearing when an affidavit presented by a defendant alleging a breakdown in communi… |
| 19-6685 | Scott McLaughlin v. Anne L. Precythe, Director, Missouri Department of Corrections | Eighth Circuit | 2019-11-20 | Denied | IFP | capital-case capital-cases capital-cases-habeas-corpus certificate-of-appealability certificates-of-appealability confrontation-clause eighth-circuit giles-v-california habeas-corpus pro-forma-denial procedural-due-process standard-of-review | A disturbing trend is developing in capital cases in federal courts in Missouri regarding the pro forma denial of certificates of appealability ("COA"… |
| 19-6676 | Christopher G. Waguespack v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-11-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography computer-evidence computer-forensics confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination evidence law-enforcement sixth-amendment software-reliability | I. Whether failing to call the law enforcement agent responsible for generating a computer report in the Government's case-in-chief implicates the Six… |
| 19-6503 | Pedro Jorge Moreno-Garcia v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-11-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause deportation fifth-amendment fifth-circuit immigration supreme-court testimonial-hearsay warrant-of-removal | Is an immigration officer's signature on a warrant of removal attesting that he witnessed the alien depart the United States testimonial hearsay subje… |
| 19-6493 | Theresa Gail Scanlan v. Washington | Washington | 2019-11-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | accuser confrontation-clause criminal-procedure medical-evidence medical-personnel police-interrogation police-involvement prosecutorial-purpose prosecutorial-use sixth-amendment testimonial testimonial-statements | When police officers repeatedly inform an accuser that his statements to medical personnel will be given to the police and prosecuting authorities for… |
| 19-6474 | Christopher Andrew Tank v. Michigan | Michigan | 2019-11-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause confrontation-clause-violation constitutional-rights constitutional-rights-violation criminal-procedure due-process dying-declaration prejudicial-effect sixth-amendment testimonial-dying-declarations testimonial-evidence | I. WHETHER TESTIMONIAL DYING DECLARATIONS VIOLATE THE CONFRONTATION CLAUSE OF THE SIXTH AMENDMENT; AND, WHETHER PETITIONER'S CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS WER… |
| 19-6437 | Lee E. Peyton v. California | California | 2019-10-31 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause courtroom-protocol criminal-procedure due-process due-process-clause farretta-v-california fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion pro-se pro-se-representation sixth-amendment | This Petition presents an issue of fundamental importance to all defendants facing criminal prosecution in California: whether the Sixth and Fourteent… |
| 19-6395 | V. A. C. v. J. L. W. | Texas | 2019-10-28 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure confrontation-clause constitutional-challenge direct-appeal due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance parental-rights prejudice termination-of-parental-rights trial-court-discretion | 1) If it can be proven, leaving absolutely 'No-Doubt', that the relied upon convi ctions, in regard to a Termination of Parental Rights action, is un… |
| 19-6365 | Deontae Travohn Davis v. Duncan MacLaren, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-10-24 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process expert-witness handwriting-expert perjury preliminary-examination | CAN THIS COURT EXTEND EXPERT WITNESS NEEDED BEYOND PSYCHIATRIST SPECIALIST BECAUSE COURTS REFUSED OFFER HANDWRITING EXPERT TO ASSIST PETITIONER DEFENS… |
| 19-6381 | Anthony Tyrone Brown v. Michigan | Michigan | 2019-10-24 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | abuse-of-discretion compulsory-process confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence evidence-suppression fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct sexual-activity-evidence witness-testimony | I. DID THE TRIAL JUDGE VIOLATE THE PETTIONER'S DUE PROCESS RIGHTS TO A FAIR TRIAL AND IMPARTIAL JUDCE. TO NSURE DUE PROCESS, AND FOR THE JUDGE TO AVOI… |
| 19-6322 | Kelvin Miles v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-10-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alleyne alleyne-vs-united-states apprendi confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-destruction fair-trial hearsay sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-factors | 1. DID THE PRE-TRIAL DESTRUCTION OF EVIDENCE BY THE STATE DENY THE PETITIONER HIS RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS AND A FAIR TRIAL, THUS DENYING HIM THE ONLY EV… |
| 19-6303 | Jeffrey Jason Cooper v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-10-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause due-process evidence fifth-amendment hearsay sixth-amendment witness-testimony | Whether the lower Courts erred in allowing multiple hearsay statements of five alleged witnesses and other non-testifying witnesses whom did not testi… |
| 19-6294 | Alexander Mattei v. Sean Medeiros, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk | First Circuit | 2019-10-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process evidence expert-testimony hearsay sixth-amendment surrogate-analyst testimonial-evidence testimonial-hearsay trial-procedure | Whether there is ability to cross-examine a surrogate analyst at a jury trial who had used another's certified and testimonial DNA results ipse dixit,… |
| 19-6179 | Jesus Felix-Heras v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-10-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | computer-forensics confrontation-clause criminal-procedure database-search evidence-admissibility expert-testimony fingerprint-analysis forensic-evidence search-algorithm sixth-amendment | Whether admission of the results of a search of computer fingerprint database, which the record shows to be identical to fingerprint analysis done by … |
| 19-6180 | Dannie Joe Farnum v. Scott Frauenheim, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2019-10-07 | Denied | IFP | child-competency confrontation-clause due-process fair-trial hearsay prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-confrontation right-to-fair-trial | 1. Whether the trial court violated a defendant's right to due process by admitting the prior statements of a 4 year old child without any inquiry int… |
| 19-411 | Rodney Reed v. Texas | Texas | 2019-09-26 | Denied | Amici (2)Relisted (8) | brady-materiality brady-v-maryland confrontation-clause due-process exculpatory-evidence fifth-amendment materiality self-incrimination suppressed-evidence witness-testimony | When assessing under the Brady materiality standard whether "disclosure of the suppressed evidence to competent counsel would have made a different re… |
| 19-6023 | Jeffrey Guy Ringle v. Shane Jackson, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-09-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-v-maryland brady-violation confrontation-clause due-process false-testimony giglio-standard giglio-v-united-states habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance miranda-rights prejudice withholding-evidence | Did the majority below err in applying this court's decision in Giglio v. United States to hold that Petitioner could not show prejudice, solely becau… |
| 19-361 | Renado Smith and Richard Delancy v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-09-18 | Denied | Amici (3) | confrontation-clause criminal-evidence criminal-procedure custody-release deposition-testimony due-process good-faith-effort investigative-steps prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-procedure sixth-amendment testimonial-statement unavailability witness-unavailability | The Confrontation Clause permits prosecutors to introduce the out-of-court testimonial statements of an absent witness only if the witness is "unavail… |
| 19-5975 | Juan Jose Tull-Abreu v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-09-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-identity-theft compulsory-process confrontation-clause conspiracy controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment health-care-fraud identity-theft sixth-amendment | 1. Whether the petitioner participated in a conspiracy to commit health care fraud , in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1349 . Count One of the Indictment. … |
| 19-5926 | Refugio Quintanar v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-13 | Denied | IFP | burden-of-proof confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process presentence-report procedural-unreasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines timely-objection | 1. Whether the defendant has the burden to deny and discredit the factual allegations of a Presentence Report that increase his or her sentence? 2. W… |
| 19-5936 | Cesar Rosario Lopez-Ramos v. Minnesota | Minnesota | 2019-09-13 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination foreign-language-interpreter police-interrogation sixth-amendment testimonial-statements translation-evidence | Whether the Sixth Amendment's Confrontation Clause permits the prosecution to introduce testimonial statements in the form of an unidentified foreign … |
| 19-5895 | Lavar Eady v. Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 2019-09-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | chemical-composition confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-testimony forensic-evidence lab-testing substitute-analyst testimonial-hearsay truth-of-the-matter | Whether the Confrontation Clause prohibits a substitute state analyst from testifying at trial as to the composition of a seized substance obtained as… |
| 19-5857 | Jonathan P. Flom v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-09-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acquittance civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-violation deliberation due-process fundamental-error government-misconduct material-disclosure sentence-enhancement vacatur | I. Whether the Order of Dismissal with Prejudice as an Acquittance provides preclusive and legal force, requiring Vacatur; Whether various violations … |
| 19-5806 | John Bradham v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-09-04 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | confidential-informant confrontation-clause criminal-procedure drug-transaction due-process evidence evidence-admission sixth-amendment | WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT'S ERRONEOUS ADMISSION OF A VIDEO OF AN ALLEGED DRUG AND FIREARM TRANSACTION BETWEEN THE CI AND THE DEFENDANT VIOLATED THE C… |
| 19-5819 | Arthur Rathburn v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-09-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence-standard evidentiary-issues fair-notice jury-instructions reasonable-doubt right-to-jury-trial right-to-present-defense sufficiency-of-evidence vagueness | I. DID THE GOVERNMENT FAIL TO PRESENT SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE CONVICTIONS BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT? II. WAS PETITIONER RATHBURN DENIED HI… |
| 19-5796 | Alfredo Beltran Leyva v. United States | District of Columbia | 2019-09-03 | Denied | Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split confrontation-clause constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process hearsay hearsay-evidence sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review | After pleading guilty to federal narcotics charges, Petitioner was sentenced to life imprisonment based entirely on unverified in-court testimony by a… |
| 19-5758 | Peter J. Hanson v. Wisconsin | Wisconsin | 2019-08-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence hearsay out-of-court-statements sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence | Whether out-of-court statements offered for purposes "other than their truth" ever implicate the Sixth Amendment right to Confrontation? |
| 19-5607 | Felix Summers v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. | Third Circuit | 2019-08-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence right-to-counsel sixth-amendment | DENIAL OF SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT OF CONFRONTATION. THE FEDERAL CONFRONTATION CLAUSE (6TH AMEND.)(was violated). DENIAL OF SIXTH AMENDMENT. RIGHT TO EFF… |
| 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… |
| 19-5620 | Damien Hyde v. Illinois | Illinois | 2019-08-16 | Denied | IFP | 5th-amendment civil-rights coerced-statements confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidence non-defendant-witnesses substantive-evidence witness-testimony | 1. Does the admission of Coerced Statements by Non-defendant Witnesses deprive a defendant of Due Process of law, when they are used during trial as s… |
| 19-5481 | Jomo Williams v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-08-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment 6th-amendment confrontation-clause confrontation-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-rule-of-evidence fifth-amendment jury sixth-amendment | 1) Were Petitioner's Fifth and Sixth Amendment due process rights obliterated where the district court, not only permitted the prosecution to insert i… |
| 19-159 | Carlos Tapia v. New York | New York | 2019-08-02 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence memory-loss sixth-amendment testimonial-statement | Whether, when a witness's total memory loss prevents him from testifying about his prior out-of-court testimonial statement, the witness's mere presen… |
| 19-5376 | Alan Lewis Doering v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2019-07-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process standing takings confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence sixth-amendment sixth-circuit | How can lower Consts dismiss Violation of bcing Punishd in the bok with no frult of ny own? How can the isshance of tablits to inmats fron the ADciwhi… |
| 19-5340 | Carl Prostell v. David Zook, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2019-07-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury post-conviction-relief reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence | WHETHER THE FOURTH CIRCUIT ERRED IN DEFERRING TO THE STATE COURT FINDING THAT THE EVIDENCE WAS SUFFICIENT TO FIND INTENT TO SUSTAIN A CONVICTION OF AG… |
| 19-5300 | Fremo Santana v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-07-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination guideline-range ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-proceedings | WHETHER DEFENSE COUNSEL'S PERFORMANCE WAS CONSTITUTIONALLY INEFFECTIVE FOR ERRONEOUSLY MISCALCULATING PETITIONER'S GUIDELINE RANGE WHICH WAS THE DECID… |
| 19-5238 | Arthur Lopez v. The Irvine Company Apartment Communities, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-07-19 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation due-process fair-housing-act federal-jurisdiction federal-review jurisdiction legal-jurisdiction remedies standing state-court-jurisdiction state-law | 1.) Should Pläntiff and the Seneral Paublic fntenest be permitted to furoue Relief from violations of the Fon toin np thouge the Federal Couts gdition… |
| 19-5256 | Anthony J. Livingstone v. United States | Armed Forces | 2019-07-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause confrontation-rights criminal-procedure discovery due-process military-justice military-rules-of-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment special-victims-counsel | 1. Was the 6th Amendment right to confront witnesses violated due to a misapplication of MRE 412 by the military judge? 2. Did the prosecutor prejudi… |
| 19-5178 | Howard Lester v. Ohio | Ohio | 2019-07-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure essential-element expert-testimony firearms-examination fourth-amendment prosecutor-summation report-admission seizure substitute-analyst summation witness-testimony | I. Whether the admission of a report authored by a non-testifying firearms examiner, and expert testimony from a substitute analyst concerning the fin… |
| 19-5152 | Daryll Keith Shumake v. Virginia | Fourth Circuit | 2019-07-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights court-filing due-process evidence-suppression exculpatory-evidence hearsay ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-access legal-materials prison-litigation prisoner-rights prosecutorial-misconduct | Question not identified. |
| 19-5136 | Sha-Ron Haines v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-07-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rights cross-examination due-process evidence evidence-rule-412 rape-shield rape-shield-law right-to-privacy victim-privacy | Can the Government invoke Federal Rule of Evidence 412, the rape shield, over the objection of the victim, when doing so infringes upon a defendant's … |
| 19-5051 | Armando Duarte Islas, Jr. v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-07-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence arizona-jurisdiction civil-rights confrontation-clause due-process federal-agencies federal-jurisdiction federal-organization habeas-corpus | WAS ARIZONA ABSENT OF JURISDICTION OVER EVENTS THAT OCCURRED ON LANDS UNDER EXCLUSIVE FEDERAL AUTHORITY, AND INVESTIGATED EXCLUSIVELY BY AGENCIES UNDE… |
| 19-5062 | Henry Lee Jones v. Tennessee | Tennessee | 2019-07-03 | Denied | IFP | capital-punishment confrontation-clause due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment Hearsay sixth-amendment witness-testimony | In this capital case, the Tennessee courts permitted the State to introduce a transcript of prior testimony of its "primary witness" rather than prese… |
| 19-5065 | Chester Ray Crank v. Charmaine Bracy, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-07-03 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | alibi-defense confrontation confrontation-clause conviction criminal-procedure due-process illegal-recordings ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence intoxication police-misconduct prejudicial-evidence | IS A PETITIONER PROVIDED DUE PROCESS OF LAW WHEN HE IS CONVICTED ON EVIDENCE INSUFFICIENT TO SUSTAIN A CONVICTION WHEN SAID EVIDENCE WAS WHOLLY BASED … |
| 19-12 | Kevin Sewell v. Maryland | Maryland | 2019-07-01 | Denied | Response Waived | compelled-speech confrontation-clause due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment-self-incrimination first-amendment first-amendment-compelled-speech overbreadth self-incrimination sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-confrontation-clause | 1. Whether Maryland's law imposing a duty to report suspected child abuse or neglect on all persons in the State violates the First Amendment where it… |
| 19-5006 | Peter J. Rosato v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-07-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights confrontation-clause confrontation-right constitutional-waiver criminal-procedure deposition deposition-testimony depositions due-process knowingly-intelligent-waiver right-to-be-present video-deposition waiver | DOES A WAIVER OF A CITIZENS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT HAVE TO APPEAR ON THE RECORD EITHER WRITTEN OR ORALLY IN ORDER TO ESTABLISH A KNOWNING, INTELLIGENT, … |
| 19-6 | New York v. Jahmarley Jones | New York | 2019-06-28 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2) | confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure gang-evidence police-investigation police-investigations sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence testimonial-statements | Whether statements made by individuals during routine police investigations – prior to the commission of a specific crime, the identification of a sus… |
| 18-9716 | Andrew J. Hunter, Jr. v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2019-06-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | compulsory-process confrontation-clause constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure defense-rights due-process fair-trial judicial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel subpoena-power | Did Louisiana Courts err in denying Andrew Hunter's right to a fair trial and subsequent review when rejecting claims involving, Conflicting Decisions… |
| 18-9657 | Joseph Howard Davis v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-06-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split confrontation-clause criminal-evidence criminal-procedure drug-dealer drug-distribution due-process evidence fourth-circuit hearsay informant methamphetamine-offense non-testifying-witness second-circuit | I. Is an out-of-court statement by a non-testifying informant which identifies the defendant as a drug dealer hearsay, as in the Second Circuit, or no… |
| 18-9650 | Shawn Pinson v. Texas | Texas | 2019-06-13 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment standing testimony | Question not identified. |
| 18-9534 | Femi Alexander Mewase v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-06-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553a confrontation-clause criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-jury-selection due-process federal-rules-of-evidence jury-selection sentencing | Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by affirming the improper removal of Juror 20. Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by upholding the admission of evidence… |
| 18-9555 | Kenneth Thomas v. Robert Marsh, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Benner Township | Third Circuit | 2019-06-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | autopsy-report confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington cross-examination fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel melendez-diaz-v-massachusetts sixth-amendment strickland-standard testimonial-evidence | WHETHER THIS COURT SHOULD CONSIDER IF THE INTRODUCTION OF AN AUTOPSY REPORT WHICH WAS PRESENTED AS SUBSTANTIVE EVIDENCE BUT NOT TESTIFIED TO BY ITS AU… |
| 18A1253 | Niraj Prabhakar Patel v. Connecticut | Connecticut | 2019-06-03 | Presumed Complete | co-conspirator-statement confrontation-clause criminal-procedure hearsay sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence | Question not identified. | |
| 18-1506 | Julian Martin v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-06-03 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | co-defendant-statement confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence fair-trial hearsay reliability-of-evidence right-to-confront-witnesses sixth-amendment | Whether the District Court's express reliance on an out-of-court statement of a non-testifying co-defendant as a basis for finding the defendant guilt… |
| 18-9470 | R. Jay Thompson v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2019-05-29 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause evidence hearsay hearsay-statements sane-nurse sexual-assault sixth-amendment testimonial testimonial-evidence | 1. Are hearsay statements made to a SANE nurse by a witness complaining of sexual assault, who is not available at trial because of death, testimonial… |
| 18-9446 | Davon Kelly Bennett v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-05-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination custodial-interrogation daubert-standard due-process evidence expert-witness-testimony motion-to-suppress rule-404b sixth-amendment | 1. Whether the District Court deprived Petitioner of his right to confront witnesses by limiting defense counsel's opportunity to cross-examine the go… |
| 18-9414 | Donald Stewart Royce v. Florida | Florida | 2019-05-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment 6th-amendment confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence impeachment law-enforcement witness witness-testimony | During the Petitioner's trial one of the two victims was to be questioned by the defense about prior inconsistent statements to law enforcement for im… |
| 18-9428 | Robert L. Jenkins v. Pelicia E. Hall, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2019-05-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-jurisdiction bullcoming-v-new-mexico civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process evidence-law forensic-evidence judicial-review melendez-diaz-v-massachusetts testimonial-statements | This COURT's 2OO4 dECiSiON iN CRAWfORd v. WAshingtOn, 541 U.S. 36 (2004) clEARly ESTAblishEd thAT, puRSUANT to thE CONFRONtATiON ClAUSE of THE SiXth A… |
| 18-9352 | Donald C. Ridley v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-05-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting Bullcoming-v-New-Mexico confrontation-clause Crawford-v-Washington due-process griffin-v-united-states ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions rosemond-v-united-states strickland-standard Strickland-v-Washington yates-v-united-states | Does a lower Court's admission that a aiding and abetting jury instruction was erroneous in light of this Court decision in Rosemond v. United States,… |
| 18-9298 | Anthony Barry and Brian Cahill v. Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 2019-05-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-violation confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence exculpatory-information fundamental-fairness jury-trial post-conviction-evidence witness-testimony | 1. This Court has never finally resolved the question of whether intentional pre-trial withholding of exculpatory information violates the Confrontati… |
| 18-9310 | Roberto Nieto Cruz v. Texas | Texas | 2019-05-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process extraneous-evidence extraneous-offense-testimony fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard | I. The Court of Appeals erred by misapplying the first prong, and failing to consider the second prong, of the Strickland standard, with respect to th… |
| 18-9281 | Randy Burke v. Diane Prosper, Acting Warden, et al. | Virgin Islands | 2019-05-15 | Denied | IFP | 6th-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination double-jeopardy due-process evidence evidence-law expert-testimony ineffective-assistance jury-instructions right-to-confrontation trial-counsel | INEFFEcTiVE ASSisTANCE OF COSEL is A 6AMENdMENT RiGHT ViolaTiON WItNES BEATRCE RENCE WHN TRiA COUNSEL EWTHAt is Cien RDBuRKE HAVE THE RigHT To bE CON… |
| 18-9268 | Manuel Antonio Mejia Rivera v. Donna Kay McKinney, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2019-05-15 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel self-defense sixth-amendment void-conviction witness-testimony | PETITIONER Mr. RIVERA ALLEGED THAT HIS TRIAL COUNSEL WAS INEFFECTIVE FOR FAILING TO CALL A WITNESS OF WHOM Mr RIVERA MADE HIM AWARE. PETITIONER WAS CO… |
| 18-1421 | Nassau County District Attorney's Office v. Mark Orlando | Second Circuit | 2019-05-14 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (23) | aedpa aedpa-deference bruton-v-united-states confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation deferential-review habeas-corpus murder-conviction state-court-deference supreme-court-precedent teague-v-lane tennessee-v-street | 1. Did the Court of Appeals violate the deferential review requirements of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) by setting aside a state murder conviction based on its… |
| 18-9263 | Luis Felipe Valencia v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-05-14 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process international-law jurisdiction maritime-drug-law maritime-law minimum-contacts stateless-vessel vagueness void-for-vagueness | Petitioner was onboard a boat in international waters in the Eastern Pacific Ocean when the United States Coast Guard ("USCG") detained him for cocain… |
| 18-9202 | Edilberto Maso Diaz v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-05-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | co-conspirator co-conspirator-testimony confrontation-clause conspiracy criminal-conviction criminal-procedure cumulative-error due-process evidence evidentiary-sufficiency fifth-circuit-review hearsay hearsay-evidence hearsay-statements jury-instructions standard-of-review trial-procedure | 1) Did the Fifth Circuit err by affirming the district court admission of hearsay statements made by an unindicted co-conspirator over the objection o… |
| 18-9205 | Antonio Ballesteros v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-05-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause confrontation-clause-6th-amendment criminal-procedure importation machine-generated-data sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment strict-liability | I. Whether GPS Data prepared specifically for an ongoing investigation and culled from several databases is machine generated data that implicates the… |
| 18-9015 | Diego Rodrigo Perea v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-04-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause constructive-denial criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment | Was the State Court's rejection of the Petitioner's claim that he was constructively denied the assistance of counsel, when the State Court failed to … |
| 18-8955 | Gregory Butler v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. | Third Circuit | 2019-04-23 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment 6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment jury-instructions other-crimes-evidence sixth-amendment trial-fairness witness-confrontation | Whether the district court and the third circuit erred in refusing to issue a certificate of appealability when it determined the admission of the oth… |
| 18-8894 | Robert L. Mayfield v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-04-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | admissibility co-conspirator co-conspirator-statements co-conspirators confrontation-clause criminal-procedure evidence evidence-rule hearsay hearsay-exception out-of-court-statements rule-801 rule-801(d)(2)(e) | Whether admission of out-of-court statements made by Robert Mayfield's alleged co-conspirators violated the hearsay exception of Rule 801(d)(2)(E). |
| 18-8902 | Gustav Kloszewski v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-04-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation Crawford-precedent crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility precedent sixth-amendment testimonial-statements | Did the lower court fail to follow this Court's precedent in Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36 (2004). |
| 18-8862 | Roderick White v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2019-04-17 | Denied | Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation crawford-v-washington cross-examination due-process evidence memory-loss testimonial-hearsay united-states-v-owens | Whether the rule of United States v. Owens, 484 U.S. 554 (1988), as used by courts to admit testimonial hearsay from witnesses not amenable to cross-e… |
| 18-8869 | Jesse Davenport, aka Draco John Flama v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-04-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography confrontation-clause conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial plain-error shackling sufficiency-of-evidence | 1. Is shackling a defendant during his or her jury trial for no asserted or actual reason proper, and thus not even an "error" under the plain error t… |
| 18-8795 | Luis Alberto Armendariz-Chavez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-04-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause due-process fifth-circuit immigration immigration-law removal testimonial testimonial-evidence warrant warrant-of-removal | Whether an immigration officer's warrant of removal is testimonial for purposes of the Confrontation Clause? |
| 18-8751 | William Len Rainey v. Texas | Texas | 2019-04-10 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights confrontation-clause discovery due-process hearsay sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements sexual-offenses | unconstitutional as appliedinatrialon Sept.21, 201 denying the Petitioner basc Duc rocess protections and affetihis substatialrights? AWe e investiga… |
| 18-8644 | Emanuel L. Finch, Sr. v. Bradley Graham, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-04-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause confrontation-clause,compulsory-process,miranda-ri consent-to-search constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial materiality-of-false-testimony miranda-rights sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence weight-of-evidence | Whether it is a question of Law for the Supreme Court of the United States to determine the conduct complained of? Whether the Petitioner have a Cons… |
| 18-8591 | Jose J. Salazar-Hernandez v. Texas | Texas | 2019-03-28 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment child-sexual-assault confrontation-clause constitutional-violation criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process federal-habeas habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct statute-of-limitations victim-testimony | Is it logical to conclude 1. that a trier-of fact has reasonably and rationally the "beyond a reasonable applied doubt" standard as contemplated under… |
| 18-8557 | Ignacio Ruiz v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2019-03-26 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing | GRou oNE: Houston Police Department Detective, Jhn Brooks, testified during the state's case -in-chief concerning ownership of a cll phone involved in… |
| 18-8564 | Kelvin Wayne Heath v. Melinda K. Braman, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-03-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | automatic-reversal compulsory-process confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel exculpatory-evidence fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct uniform-act-on-production-of-out-of-state-witnesse witness-tampering | Did trial court abuse discretion by allowing text messages that's erased? Was Trial Counsel ineffective? Was 6th Amendment violated specifically Con… |
| 18-8571 | Javier Pellecer v. California | California | 2019-03-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-rights cumulative-error due-process fair-trial gang-evidence impartial-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel | I. WHETHER THE SPECAL CIRCUMSTANCE AND GANG EVIDENCE ARE UNSUPPORTED BY SUBSTANTIAL EVIDENCE, DENYING PETITIONER DUE PROCESS OF LAW. II. WHETHER THE … |
| 18-8405 | Mohammed Suleiman Roble v. United States | District of Columbia | 2019-03-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-defense criminal-defense-attorney-ineffectiveness due-process exculpatory-evidence government-evidence ineffective-assistance pre-trial-proceedings reasonableness sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington | DOES STRICKLAND v. WASHINGTON, 466 US 668, 80 L Ed Qd 674, 104 S Ct 2052 REQUIRE THE GOVERNMENT'S EVIDENCE TO BE WEAK TO FIND A CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTOR… |
| 18-8418 | Marvin Waddleton, III v. Bernadette Rodriguez, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2019-03-13 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights cross-examination due-process force-application good-faith qualified-immunity summary-judgment | The core of the inquiry.. .That once the provisions of 42 USCS 1997, and Clear Established Law has been properly satified to over come Quailfied Immun… |
| 18-1181 | Tim Shoop, Warden v. Ahmad Fawzi Issa | Sixth Circuit | 2019-03-12 | Denied | Relisted (2) | aedpa aedpa-standard confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington due-process federal-court-review habeas-corpus retroactivity sixth-amendment state-prisoner-rights supreme-court-precedent | At Ahmad Issa's 1998 trial, two witnesses described statements that their friend (and Issa's accomplice) made to them about Issa's involvement in a mu… |
| 18-8379 | John Anthony Dobbs v. Texas | Texas | 2019-03-11 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation crawford-standard crawford-v-washington due-process evidence forensic-evidence medical-examination medical-forensic medical-forensic-purpose sane-nurse sane-nurse-examination testimonial-statement testimonial-statements | BECAUSE SANE NURSE EXAMINATIONS HAVE EVOLVED INTO A DUAL MEDICAL AND FORENSIC PURPOSE, HAVE THE STATEMENTS OBTAINED BECOME 'TESTIMONIAL' FOR PURPOSES … |
| 18-8189 | Martin Tovar v. Dushan Zatecky, Superintendent, Pendleton Correctional Facility | Seventh Circuit | 2019-02-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-precedent habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction | Ground One: Whether (a) The Indiana Southern District Court erred in ruling Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus was time barred and (b) Seventh Circuit… |
| 18-8111 | Rossahn Black v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-02-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bullcoming confrontation confrontation-clause evidence-admissibility expert-witness forensic-evidence forensic-testimony melendez-diaz melendez-diaz-precedent ninth-circuit-interpretation sixth-amendment testimony | I. Whether this Court's decision in Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts, 557 U.S. 305, 129 5.Ct. 2527 (2009) and Builcoming v. New Mexico, 5614 U.S. 647, 1… |
| 18-7944 | Jerkeno Wallace v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-02-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process evidence judicial-discretion non-testifying-defendant remorse remorse-consideration right-to-silence sentencing sentencing-error | WHEN COURT CONSIDERED OBSERVATIONS OF THE NON-TESTIFYING DEFENDANT AS BASIS OF PROVING NO REMORSE |
| 18-7917 | Najee Sharif Wilkins v. Michigan | Michigan | 2019-02-12 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause cross-examination eighth-amendment juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole miller-v-alabama montgomery-v-louisiana parole-eligibility witness-testimony | Petitioner was sentenced to 45-100 years concurrent to 10-40 years for second-degree murder and perjury committed when he was under the age of 18 whic… |
| 18-7770 | Michael Paul Bradley v. Georgia | Georgia | 2019-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals confrontation-clause constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction right-to-counsel sixth-amendment | Question not identified. |
| 18-7846 | Reginald Hough v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment confrontation-clause evidence expert-testimony fifth-amendment lay-witness police-procedure probable-cause search-warrant totality-of-circumstances | Based on the totality of the circumstances was there probable cause for the search warrant to issue? Is it permissible for a lay witness to offer tes… |
| 18-7782 | James E. Mason, Jr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2019-02-06 | Denied | IFP | batson-challenge batson-challenges burden-of-proof confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process impeached-testimony ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel insufficient-evidence jury-instructions jury-selection race-neutral-challenges | Reasonable jurists would conclude that the State obtained Mr. Masons with insufficient evidence. Jurists of reason would determine that Mr. Mason was… |
| 18-7734 | Joe Willie Cannon v. Iowa District Court, Des Moines County | Iowa | 2019-02-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment | I. DID THE STATE OF IOWA VIOLATE THE PETITIONERS 5th, 6th, & 14th AMENDMENT'S CONFRONTATION AND DUE PROCESS RIGHTS TO BE PRESENT DURING A CRITICAL STA… |
| 18-7634 | Lincoln E. Fox v. Neil Turner, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-01-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-error fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel victim-testimony witness-testimony | I) Reasonable jurists could debate whether the trial court's admission of a videotaped statement of the victim in violation of Evid.R. 803(4) denied A… |
| 18-7505 | Demian Pina v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-01-24 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | confrontation-clause daubert due-process ecpa ecpa-violation electronic-surveillance evidence-admissibility fourth-amendment kyllo search-and-seizure speedy-trial | Does the use of computer/internet surveillance technology, not available to the general public, to intrude into a home or curtilage (KYLLO) without pr… |
| 18-7553 | Elmos D. Hopkins v. Robert Dooley, Warden, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2019-01-24 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights confession confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury jury-instructions right-to-counsel witness | Can a defendant be convicted where two witnesses (owners of the home) who observed two males from 15 feet in broad daylight come out of their house an… |
| 18-7533 | Shawn Canada v. Eddie Miles, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2019-01-23 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights confrontation-clause cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining sentencing | 1. DID CANADA RECEIVE EFFECTIVE ASISTANCE OF COUNSEL 2. WAS THERE AN ABUSE OF DISCRETION TO BRINGING OF CANADA MENKAL HEALHL INJUSTICE DUNNG SENTENUN… |
| 18-7512 | Ronald Jackson v. Illinois | Illinois | 2019-01-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights compulsory-process confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-ruling ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-a-fair-trial right-to-fair-trial sixth-amendment state-court subjective-intent | as Iweffective and to resolve dis agreements about the Spe cific Legal question D0 Attempt murder oN A Polide officer Carry A mandatory Ferearmerhanc… |
| 18-7480 | Karreem Tislam Jabar Wiley v. Larry Cartledge, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2019-01-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment compulsory-process confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel | Question not identified. |
| 18-7416 | Javier Solis v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-01-15 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause crawford-precedent crawford-v-washington hearsay hearsay-exception jury-instructions jury-interpretation police-testimony sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence truth-of-the-matter-asserted | A POLICE OFFICER TESTIFIED TO MATTERS OF WHICH HE DID NOT HAVE DIRECT KNOWLEDGE INCLUDING A BOLO BULLETIN. SHOULD "TESTIMONIAL" OR "NON-TESTIMONIAL" … |
| 18-7402 | Robert Shapiro v. United States | Federal Circuit | 2019-01-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment compulsory-process confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial public-trial right-to-counsel speedy-trial | What Des th Unite States Cnstifution er omean efrine timeliness referred toby right to a criminal proseation, the an impartal jory of the state and di… |
| 18-7322 | Robert R. Yerton, Jr. v. Jason Bryant, Warden | Tenth Circuit | 2019-01-09 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appeal confrontation-clause criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process expert-witness federal-appeal indigent-defense sixth-amendment tenth-circuit | Whether the Tenth Circuit Court erred in holding - in conflict with the Second, Fifth, Sixth, Ninth, the D.C., and other Circuit Courts - that The Dis… |
| 18-7271 | Richard Steven Johnson, Jr. v. Neil McDowell, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2019-01-07 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause coy-v-iowa criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process fundamental-rights maryland-v-craig witness-testimony | The sole question raised by this Petition for Certiorari is whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals violated petitioner's fundamental rights by rul… |
| 18-7179 | Trevelle J. Taylor v. Nebraska | Nebraska | 2018-12-27 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment arrest-standards civil-rights confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search witness-testimony | Whether a persons mere proximity to others independently suspected of criminal activity, withoutmore, give rise to probable cause to search that perso… |
| 18-7146 | Jonathan Samuel Sage v. Washington | Washington | 2018-12-21 | Denied | IFP | confrontation confrontation-clause cross-examination double-jeopardy double-jeopardy-clause due-process evidence-restriction judicial-review jury-instructions multiple-convictions same-crime same-person-same-time separate-and-distinct-conduct uncharged-misconduct witness-credibility | 1. It is well established that when a person is charged with multiple counts of the same crime committed against the same person at the same time, the… |
| 18-7165 | Drakile Leroy Jones v. Michigan | Michigan | 2018-12-21 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause crawford-precedent crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process evidence michigan-supreme-court sixth-amendment standing state-court-appeal supervisory-power williamson-v-united-states | 1) Whether the decision of the Michigan Court of Appeals conflicts with Crawford v. Washington? 2) Whether the Michigan Supreme Court's interpretatio… |
| 18-7010 | Jermaine Mitchell v. United States | First Circuit | 2018-12-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause expert-testimony expert-witness forensic-evidence lab-reports law-enforcement-testimony lay-testimony narcotics narcotics-testimony scientific-evidence sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence | Whether law enforcement (lay) testimonies about the narcotics character of certain substances may be shined with the expert testimonial gloss of unpro… |
| 18-6988 | Donald Sanders v. Domingo Uribe, Jr., Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2018-12-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation confrontation-clause cross-examination due-process eyewitness eyewitness-testimony federal-proceedings fundamental-fairness ninth-circuit state-court state-court-proceedings | Whether the Ninth Circuit clearly erred in its decision that the state court reasonably concluded that Petitioner's right to confrontation was not vio… |
| 18-6954 | Steven Scott Wells v. California | California | 2018-12-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-standards expert-testimony fingerprint-analysis fingerprint-evidence forensic-evidence judicial-review scientific-methodology | Does a fingerprint expert's testimony that two fingerprints "match" have any evidentiary value if the expert provides no explanation for that conclusi… |
| 18-6909 | Albert Andrew Lucero v. Kim Holland, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2018-12-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bruton-rule bruton-v-united-states co-defendant confrontation-clause confrontation-clause-rights crawford-analysis crawford-v-washington harmless-error joint-trial sixth-amendment testimonial-statement | Was the California Court of Appeal's decision contrary to, or an unreasonable application of, this Court's jurisprudence holding that the Sixth Amendm… |
| 18-6885 | Stephen Anthony Marquez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2018-11-30 | Denied | IFP | business-records confrontation-clause constitutional-amendments crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment medical-records sixth-amendment | With the decision to classify testimonial or non-testimonial statements per Crawford v. Washington 124 S.t 1354 as to whether Confrontation clause app… |
| 18-6827 | Eric Williams v. New York | New York | 2018-11-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | barber-v-page confrontation-clause criminal-procedure deportation good-faith-effort significant-public-benefit-parole sixth-amendment unavailability witness-testimony | At a retrial in a criminal case, New York prosecutors were permitted to introduce prior testimony of a witness from the first trial. The witness had b… |
| 18-6845 | Edward Mitchell v. Lawrence Mahally, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. | Third Circuit | 2018-11-27 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | clearly-established-law confrontation-clause constitutional-law crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process greene-v-fisher habeas habeas-corpus habeas-statute retroactivity | The Petitioner, Edward Mitchell, was convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment by a state trial court in 2001 based on testimony that, al… |
| 18-6804 | Shane Roach v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-11-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-conflict confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process legal-objection preservation-of-error sixth-amendment standard-of-review | Does a defendant preserve a confrontation issue for review by clearly articulating Confrontation Clause concerns as the basis for his objection withou… |
| 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… | |
| 18-6791 | Benjamin Bland v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-11-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination evidence evidence-admissibility government-evidence harmless-error hearsay sixth-amendment social-security-administration trial-procedure | Whether petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to confront witnesses against him was violated where a spreadsheet (Government's Exhibit MD-313) created by… |
| 18-6786 | Curtis J. Hill v. Joe A. Lizarraga, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2018-11-21 | Denied | IFP | cause-of-death confrontation-clause due-process evidence expert-reports expert-testimony habeas-corpus medical-evidence pro-se pro-se-filing unreasonable-determination unreasonable-factual-findings | 1. Under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(2) did the California Court of Appeal unreasonably determine the facts critical to a proper Confrontation Clause analysis… |
| 18-6750 | Rita Pultro v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2018-11-20 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP | codefendant codefendant-confession confession confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission hearsay redaction sixth-amendment | Should a court look beyond the four corners of a nontestifying codefendant's confession to determine if introduction of the confession violates the Co… |
| 18-6724 | Roger Lee Ozier v. Shirlee Harry, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2018-11-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review armed-robbery bank-robbery confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination eyewitness-testimony fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence probable-cause sixth-amendment | THE EVIDENCE PRESENTED AT TRIAL WAS INSUF- FICIENT TO SUSTAIN MR. OZIER'S CONVICTION FOR ARMED ROBBERY AND BANK ROBBERY. PETITIONER WAS DENIED HIS RI… |
| 18-6725 | Charles Wayne Bussell v. Kentucky | Kentucky | 2018-11-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process impeachment impeachment-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-hearing post-conviction-relief postconviction-hearing sixth-amendment tainted-testimony trial-strategy witness-testimony | After Petitioner was convicted of robbery and murder, the state court decided that Defense counsel's cross-examination of two critical witnesses was i… |
| 18-6666 | Oscar Sosa v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-11-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process expert-testimony plain-error-review prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment witness-credibility | 1. Isa federal agent's testimony about an out-of-court agent's report of drug trafficking by an unindicted coconspirator, when linked to and used agai… |
| 18-6703 | David Richard Trimble v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2018-11-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aggravated-rape Confrontation-Clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jackson-v-virginia sixth-amendment Statute-of-limitations sufficiency-of-evidence | Reasonable jurists would find it debatable whether the evidence was insufficient to find David Trimble guilty of four counts of Aggravated Rape beyond… |
| 18-6655 | Andrew John Miller v. Duncan MacLaren, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2018-11-13 | Denied | IFP | 6th-amendment confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence preliminary-examination right-to-counsel sixth-amendment witness-testimony | Whether review is warranted because the Petitioner-Appellant's convictions must be reversed and this matter remanded for a new trial where the admissi… |
| 18-6679 | Donate Graham v. Illinois | Illinois | 2018-11-13 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | confrontation-clause conspiracy-liability criminal-procedure due-process forfeiture forfeiture-by-wrongdoing forfeiture-doctrine giles-v-california intent witness-procurement | Whether the forfeiture-by-wrongdoing exception to the Confrontation Clause encompasses acts of wrongful witness procurement done by alleged co-conspir… |
| 18-6597 | Jazsmine Arielle Joseph v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-11-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof child-trafficking confrontation-clause confrontation-rights conspiracy conspiracy-charge domestic-violence expert-testimony sex-trafficking | DID THE LOWER COURT ERR IN ITS DECISION, AS IT RELATES TO WHAT IS REQUIRED TO PROVE A CONSPIRACY CHARGE IN THE SEX TRAFFICKING OF A CHILD COUNT AND §2… |
| 18-6616 | Maria I. Sanutti-Spencer v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2018-11-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-motive criminal-procedure decedent's-drug-addiction decedent's-drug-dealing decedent's-motive decedent's-physical-abuse defendant's-health-issues due-process evidence evidence-exclusion lay-opinion-testimony right-to-complete-defense right-to-present-defense trial-procedure witness-testimony | Does excluding evidence of another's motive, of the decedent's drug addiction, drug dealing, his physical abuse of the defendant and the defendant's s… |
| 18-6629 | William Randolph Harloff v. Craig Koenig, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2018-11-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | chapman-harmless-error confrontation-clause constitutional-rights courtroom-presence criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error prejudice right-to-be-present witness-credibility witness-testimony | Whether the state court applied Chapman v. California, 386 U.S. 18 (1967) in an objectively unreasonable manner or made an unreasonable determination … |
| 18-6637 | Harold E. Grist, Jr. v. Terema Carlin, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2018-11-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause credibility due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel juror-misconduct jury-trial self-incrimination truthfulness | Whether the Petitioner had a constitutional right to confront his accusers at trial and impeach them before a jury to challenge their credibility and … |
| 18-6577 | Ernesto Wilfredo Solano Godoy v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Fourth Circuit | 2018-11-07 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause due-process fourth-circuit-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel phone-records strickland strickland-standard strickland-test sufficiency-of-evidence witness-testimony | 1-Petitioner alleges that his trial counsel was ineffective by allowing testimony and evidence to be presented to the jury in violation of the Confron… |
| 18-6475 | Lewis Wright v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2018-10-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-violation confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination cross-examination-rights due-process evidence-disclosure fourteenth-amendment parole perjury prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment witness-bias | WHETHER THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS ERRED IN LIMITING MR. STEEN ABILITY TO ESTABLISH WITNESS JOSEPH FARLEY'S BIAS WHERE MR. STEIN WAS PREVENTED FROM INQ… |
| 18-6438 | Oscar Kenneth Moreno v. Alana Butler | California | 2018-10-26 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause dna-evidence dna-testing due-process expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment remand scientific-evidence sentencing sixth-amendment | Question 1. The Trial Presentation Violated My Sixth and fourteenth Amendment Rights to Confront and Cross-Examine His Accussers. Scientific Evidence … |
| 18-6355 | Christian Dominique Scott v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-10-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence parole revocation sentencing supervised-release | I. Whether supervised release revocation defendants enjoy a limited right of cross-examination as to facts that increase the sentence imposed followin… |
| 18-6304 | Alex Lenard McCoy v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-10-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment 6th-amendment article-iii confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment plea-agreement plea-bargaining rule-11 self-incrimination sixth-amendment speedy-trial | Whether the Defendant's rights under Article III, Section 2 of the United States Constitution for the trial of his crimes by jury in the State where t… |
| 18-6278 | John Martin, Sr. v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2018-10-10 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment speedy-trial unreasonable-determination-of-facts | 1. Where the constitutional issues raised was to the degree that should have been debatable among jurist of reason, and were not lacking any factual b… |
| 18-6176 | Michael Lucero v. California | California | 2018-10-02 | Denied | IFP | 6th-amendment confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-evidence criminal-procedure domestic-violence due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment prior-acts propensity propensity-evidence | This case presents the question this Court acknowledged was "left open" in Estelle v. McGuire, 502 U.S. 62, 75, fn. 5 (1991): "whether a state law wou… |
| 18-6183 | Reginald Lynch v. Hilton Hall, Jr., Warden, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-10-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure davis-v-washington dying-declaration hearsay ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington | DOES PETITIONER RECEIVE INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL WHEN TRIAL COUNSEL FAILS TO OBJECT TO TESTIMONY FROM A WITNESS REPEATING THE STATEMENTS OF A… |
| 18-6148 | Atul Nanda v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-10-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | Brady-Doctrine brady-rule brady-v-maryland confrontation-clause due-process fifth-amendment Giglio-Doctrine giglio-rule giglio-v-united-states new-trial plea-agreement Plea-Agreements plea-bargaining sixth-amendment witness-testimony | Are the Defendants' Constitutional Rights Under the Sixth and Fifth Amendments to Confront the Witnesses Against Them and to Due Process, Respectively… |
| 18-6159 | Charlise Williams v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2018-10-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence loss-calculation sentencing sixth-amendment victim-count | Was the Petitioners Sixth Amendment right, under the Confrontation Clause violated? Was the Petitioners potentially violated Sixth Amendment Right, u… |
| 18-6060 | James Chavez v. Robert LeGrand, Warden, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-09-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause crawford-precedent crawford-v-washington cross-examination hearsay-exception preliminary-hearing sixth-amendment testimonial-statements witness-unavailability | Whether, pursuant to Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36 (2004), a Prosecution can Admit Prior Testimonial Statements, Including a Video-taped Intervi… |
| 18-5910 | Curtis Dee Packard v. Barry Goodrich, Warden, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2018-09-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment assistance-of-counsel confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance pro-se-representation public-defender right-to-counsel self-representation sixth-amendment trial-court withdrawal-of-counsel | Whether both the trial court and the State's Public Defender's Office invited error and erroneously denied the Petitioner his 6th Amendment rights to … |
| 18-5904 | Donavan Cross v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-09-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause constructive-delivery constructive-possession controlled-substance-offense controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-delivery due-process intent sentencing sentencing-guidelines testimonial-evidence | (1) Whether a statute that criminalizes a constructive delivery of drugs without bona fide intent to transfer possession is a felony "controlled subst… |
| 18-5896 | Beverly Allen Baker v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-09-05 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-procedure civil-rights confrontation-clause conspiracy criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel multiple-conspiracies sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | 1. Should BAS cov exercise YS Super visecy authority to reverse Nig Bakers cangpiracy comvichon ® By the end th trial, the government concluded that … |
| 18-5822 | Charles O. Keene v. Illinois | Illinois | 2018-08-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure dna-exonerations due-process eyewitness-identification judicial-integrity scientific-evidence scientific-research state-court-rulings state-court-split | In criminal cases, where a defendant's conviction is based on eyewitness identification, this Court has found that it was the likelihood of misidentif… |
| 18-5778 | Jon Duke DePriest v. Pam Bondi, Attorney General of Florida, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-08-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus hearsay sixth-amendment testimonial-hearsay | WHETHER PETITIONER'S SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO CONFRONT WITNESSES AGAINST HIM WERE VIOLATED WHEN THE PROSECUTOR PROVIDED TESTIMONIAL HEARSAY STATEMENTS… |
| 18-5714 | Jose A. Rivera-Quinones v. Pennsylvania | Third Circuit | 2018-08-23 | Denied | IFP | abuse-of-process confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment prejudicial-evidence sentencing sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction | Under Our United States Constitution, Amendment VI., Can A Trial Court Posess Subject Matter . Jurisdiction On A Criminal Offense Not Charged Within. … |
| 18-5726 | Ruben Cazares v. Texas | Texas | 2018-08-23 | Denied | IFP | accomplice-statements bruton-error bruton-evidence bruton-v-united-states confrontation-clause crawford crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility harmless-error prejudice prejudicial-evidence separate-trials special-prejudice trial-procedure | Fifty years ago, this Court began the Bruton era by making two points perfectly clear. One, Bruton evidence is "devastating" to the accused. Bruton v.… |
| 18-221 | Carl Mouton v. Arkansas | Arkansas | 2018-08-21 | Denied | Response Waived | compulsory-process confrontation-clause constitutional-right-to-defense criminal-procedure due-process evidence rape-shield rape-shield-law rape-shield-rule right-to-present-defense sexual-conduct-evidence | WHETHER APPLICATION OF THE ARKANSAS RAPE SHIELD RULE AND STATUTE TO PREVENT MOUTON FROM PRESENTING EVIDENCE OF A SEXUAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE ACCUS… |
| 18-5639 | Daniel Castleman, aka Chingachgook v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-08-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | best-evidence-rule brady-violation confrontation-clause documentary-evidence due-process evidence evidence-certification federal-rules-of-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct | DID THE GOVERNMENT COMMIT PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT AND WAS COUNSEL INEFFECTIVE FOR FAILING TO OBJECT OR MOVE TO EXCLUDE GX-DC-2, WHEN THE GOVERNMENT P… |
| 18-5581 | George Jenewicz v. New Jersey | New Jersey | 2018-08-14 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights compulsory-process confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process hearsay | Was not allowed to demonstrate to jury my state of mind due to intoxication in regards to the Force Syndrome when I allowed them into my residence wit… |
| 18-5545 | Carlos David Lopez v. California | California | 2018-08-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | compulsory-process confrontation-clause due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health-records plea-bargaining right-to-compulsory-process right-to-confrontation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment | Does a trial court's refusal to review privileged mental health records of the complaining witness during plea negotiations violate the Sixth Amendmen… |
| 18-5502 | Susan Joy Jacobson v. Arizona | Arizona | 2018-08-09 | Denied | IFP | compulsory-process confrontation-clause due-process expert-testimony ptsd ptsd-diagnosis self-defense sixth-amendment | Does preclusion of an accused citizen's PTSD diagnosis, proffered to support her self-defense claim, unconstitutionally impinge on her Due Process gua… |
| 18-5534 | Juan Carrasquilla-Lombada, et al. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-08-09 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause jurisdiction jury-trial maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act pre-trial-hearing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation testimonial-evidence | Whether the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act, 46 U.S.C. 70501 et. seq., is unconstitutional on its face and in violation of the Sixth Amendment right… |
| 18-5453 | Mark Elliott v. Carmen Denise Palmer, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2018-08-06 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | brady-v-maryland brady-violation confrontation-clause due-process due-process-brady-v-maryland favorable-to-accused hearsay-testimony ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel material-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct remand-for-coa right-to-confrontation sixth-amendment | QUESTION I: In Brady v. Maryland, this Court announced that it violates due process when the prosecution fails to dis close material information fav… |
| 18-5470 | Jeremy J. Bohlman v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | compulsory-process compulsory-process-clause confrontation-clause criminal-evidence due-process due-process-clause evidence fed-rule-evidence-412 federal-rules-of-evidence-412 rape-allegations rape-shield-law sexual-assault sexual-behavior subsequent-behavior-evidence | Whether Fed.R.Evid 412 bars a defendant from introducing evidence showing that the alleged victim engaged in subsequent sexual acts inconsistent with … |
| 18-5458 | Kevin Taylor v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2018-08-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cause-and-prejudice comity compulsory-process confrontation-clause due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fundamental-fairness ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment | Whether Mr. Taylor's Sixth Amendment right to confront and cross-examine his accusers was violated when he was denied Compulsory Process. Whether Mr.… |
| 18-5438 | Ulriste Tulin v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-08-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence-reliability federal-rules-of-evidence kidnapping new-trial out-of-court-identification suggestive-procedure witness-identification | I. Is an out of court identification of a defendant unduly suggestive and unreliable when the police twice showed the victim the same distorted image … |
| 18-5407 | Mladen Mitrovic v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-08-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law civil-procedure confrontation-clause due-process equal-protection federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay right-to-present-defense standing statutory-interpretation witness-unavailability | WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERRONEOUSLY EXCLUDED THE STATEMENTS OF UNAVAILABLE WITNESSES, THEREBY DENYING PETITIONER THE RIGHT TO PRESENT A COMPLETE DE… |
| 18-5394 | Casey Peebles v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-07-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | coconspirator-statements confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-rule fair-trial federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay hearsay-exception sixth-amendment | In Petitioner's jury trial on federal drug offenses, the district court allowed a prosecution witness to testify to out-of-court statements made by a … |
| 18-5399 | Joseph Andrew Perez v. California | California | 2018-07-30 | Denied | IFP | autopsy-report autopsy-reports confrontation-clause crawford-standard crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure homicide-investigation homicide-investigations sixth-amendment testimonial testimonial-evidence | Whether an autopsy report created as part of a homicide investigation, and asserting that the death was caused by homicide, is "testimonial" under the… |
| 18-5366 | Ronald David Martin v. Tony Trierweiler, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2018-07-26 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appeal confrontation-clause criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-introduce-evidence rape-shield-statute right-to-present-defense trial-court-discretion | WHETHER PETTTIONER WAS DEPRIVED OF HIS RIGHT TO CONFRONT WITNESSES, HIS RIGHT TO PRESENT A DEFENSE, AND HIS RIGHT TO THE EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNS… |
| 18-5347 | Marquis D. Costic v. Illinois | Illinois | 2018-07-25 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-rights credibility cross-examination fifth-amendment jailhouse-informant jury-instructions prosecution-witness prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment witness-disclosure | Was my Sixth Amendment U.s. Constitutional Right, under the Confrontation Clause vilated when the prasecution kept interruping during crass examinatio… |
| 18-5349 | Tyron Young v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-07-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause confrontation-right cross-examination due-process government-informant hearsay out-of-court-allegations reliability sentencing sentencing-hearing sixth-amendment unsworn-testimony | I. Whether the Sixth Amendment right to confront and cross-examine adverse witnesses applies at a sentencing hearing where the court bases the sentenc… |
| 18-5331 | Ralph Simon Jeremias v. Nevada | Nevada | 2018-07-24 | Denied | IFP | aggravating-circumstances confrontation-clause constitutional-standard death-penalty due-process hurst-v-florida jury-finding jury-trial mitigating-circumstances ring-v-arizona | 1. Whether the Consti tution requi res – i n a state i n whi ch a jury i s requi red to fi nd that mi tigating ci rcumstances do not outwei gh the agg… |
| 18-5301 | Cahlan Clay v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-07-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | compulsory-process confrontation-clause criminal-defense criminal-procedure cross-examination defendant-rights defense-strategy due-process evidence fair-trial judicial-discretion jury-instructions jury-trial trial-procedure witness-examination | Whether a court may dictate the manner by which a defendant presents his case to the jury by forcing defense counsel to rely exclusively on the cross-… |
| 18-5259 | Olin Ray Nowlin v. Joe Shannon, Jr., et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2018-07-19 | Denied | IFP | 6th-amendment compulsory-process confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection legal-deprivation liberty-interest procedural-law state-jurisdiction | To Be Confronted with The witnesces against Him: To have Compulsory Process For Obtaining Witnesses In His Favor? dbesordoes it Not guaranter In Our C… |
| 18-5281 | Vincent Craig Mosley v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-07-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | co-defendant compulsory-process confrontation-clause criminal-procedure criminal-trial drug-conspiracy due-process evidence evidence-admission plea-agreement plea-bargaining witness-testimony | The question presented is: Whether a criminal defendant in a drug conspiracy trial is entitled to see the plea agreements of non-testifying co-defenda… |
| 18-5189 | Glenvert Green v. United States | Third Circuit | 2018-07-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process fifth-amendment hearsay hearsay-evidence sentencing sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment victim-impact-statement victim-impact-statements | A. Do the Sixth and Fifth Amendments provide a criminal defendant with a right to cross-examine a government witness who testifies during a sentencing… |
| 18-5173 | Wilberth Medina Garcia v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-07-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure deportation due-process evidence-law hearsay immigration immigration-law sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence testimonial-hearsay | 1. Whether an immigration officer's formalized statements relating the fact of an alien's removal constitute testimonial hearsay for the purposes of a… |
| 18-5148 | Marcus Blalock v. Ohio | Ohio | 2018-07-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence appellate-review confrontation-clause due-process law-of-case law-of-the-case new-evidence new-trial newly-discovered-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-due-process | WHETHER PETITIONER WAS DENIED HIS RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS OF LAW; WHEN THE TRIAL COURT FAILED TO FOLLOW THE LAW OF THE CASE DOCTRINE FROM A PREVIOUS APPE… |
| 18-5053 | Andres A. Lopez-Martinez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-06-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | compulsory-process confrontation-clause constitutional-right criminal-procedure defense-presentation due-process harmless-error judicial-review police-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-present-defense structural-error | Whether it is time to revisit the harmless error standard when a defendant is deprived of his constitutional right to present a defense. |
| 18-5015 | Edwin Aponte v. Eric Tice, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Smithfield, et al. | Third Circuit | 2018-06-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights confrontation-clause due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-review procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct self-defense sixth-amendment state-appellate-procedure | A. Was petitioner's prosecutorial misconduct claim procedurally defaulted for failing to present it in state appellate procedure rule when the highest… |
| 18-5031 | Jabbar Wallace v. Kevin Kauffman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. | Third Circuit | 2018-06-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel murder-conviction self-defense self-defense-right sixth-amendment | THE PETITIONER IN THIS CASE ACTED IN SELF, DEFENSE WHEN ATTACKED BY THE DECEDENT AND HIS FRIENDS WHILE IN THE RESTROOM. THE PETITIONER WAS IN DANGER O… |
| 25A847 | Charles Victor Thompson v. Texas | Texas | Denied | autopsy-report capital-murder confrontation-clause medical-examiner sixth-amendment surrogate-testimony | Question not identified. |