corroboration
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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… |