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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-5761 Jamie Christopher Henderson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-10-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP corroboration criminal-charge drug-trafficking-conspiracy independent-evidence law-enforcement-statement search-warrant Did the Government prove a drug trafficking conspiracy where the evidence the Government offered to corroborate the defendant's statement to law enfor…
23A878 Michael Dewayne Smith v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-04-03 Denied capital-murder confession corroboration due-process false-testimony post-conviction 1. Whether Mr. Smith's first degree murder convictions and sentence of death are unreliable and in violation of his constitutional rights to due proce…
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 …
22-5016 Christopher Lee Bryant v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP corroboration criminal-procedure fourth-amendment police-investigation probable-cause recently-arrested-person search-and-seizure warrant warrant-requirement Does the Fourth Amendment require police officers to corroborate information obtained from a recently arrested person, whom officers did not know unti…
21-6125 Roberto Griego Jimenez v. Texas Texas 2021-10-29 Denied IFP corroboration credibility criminal-informant fourth-amendment law-enforcement magistrate-warrant probable-cause quid-pro-quo reliability 1. Did the trial court and Texas Court of Appeals err in their Fourth Amendment analysis, when they found that a first-time criminal snitch informant,…
21-5913 Desmond S. Gaines v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 911-tip anonymous-tip anonymous-tips corroboration drug-sales reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure seizure terry-stop totality-of-circumstances An anonymous tip must either be reliable on its own or be adequately corroborated before it can provide reasonable suspicion to seize a person. This C…
21-5528 Gabriel Samar Martinez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP can give rise to reasonable suspicion to justify standing alone 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-jurisprudence anonymous-tip corroboration fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion seizure terry-stop vehicle-stop Whether an uncorroborated anonymous tip, standing alone, can give rise to reasonable suspicion to justify a seizure.
20-6586 Shane Mauritz Vandergroen v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-12-09 Denied IFP 4th-amendment anonymous-tip circuit-split corroboration law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion terry-stop warrant-exception warrant-requirement 1. Police officers may stop a person under an exception to the warrant requirement only if they have reasonable suspicion to support an assertion of i…
20-6131 Deandre M. Smith v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2020-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review corroboration demonstrative-evidence due-process felon-in-possession recanted-statements 1. Does a State appellate court violate a criminal defendant's right to due process on appeal under the Fourteenth Amendment—by denying the defendant …
20-227 Cynthia Madej, et vir v. Jeff Maiden, Athens County Engineer Sixth Circuit 2020-08-26 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived accommodation-request americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split corroboration disability-accommodation disability-claims fair-housing-amendments-act medical-history summary-judgment In PGA Tour, Inc. v. Martin, this Court carefully examined the important question of when, under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), an otherwi…
20-5338 Ibrahim McCants v. United States Third Circuit 2020-08-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP anonymous-tip corroboration domestic-violence fourth-amendment police-response probable-cause reasonable-suspicion stop-and-frisk 1. Does an anonymous tip providing minimal physical and location descriptors and alleging ongoing domestic violence that is not corroborated when poli…
18-1439 Shanker Patel v. California California 2019-05-16 Denied Response Waived accomplice-testimony cautionary-instruction circumstantial-evidence corroboration corroboration-requirement criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions jury-trial sixth-amendment trial-rights Where in sixteen States, including California, whence this present case arises, the law requires corroboration of an accomplice's testimony to sustain…
18-6351 Raymond Baker v. United States Second Circuit 2018-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP accomplice-testimony corroboration corroboration-of-accomplice-testimony due-process due-process-rights fair-trial impartial-jury juror-misconduct jury-misconduct post-verdict post-verdict-inquiry 1. Whether, as a means of protecting a defendant's rights to due process and a fair and impartial jury, the Court should clarify whether, when a defen…
18-384 Papierfabrik August Koehler SE v. United States, et al. Federal Circuit 2018-09-25 Denied Amici (1) administrative-record adverse-facts-available antidumping-duty commerce-department corroboration facts-available judicial-review statutory-interpretation tariff-act Whether a court may rely on the Tariff Act's perceived purpose to override its specific statutory requirements for selecting antidumping duty rates.
18-5242 Kenneth Martin, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof co-conspirator co-conspirator-testimony corroboration corroboration-requirement criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-standard fifth-circuit-law plea-bargain sentencing testimony witness-credibility Whether the Fifth Circuit's law that allows a conviction based solely on the uncorroborated testimony of a co-conspirator should be abandoned, or at l…