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24-107 Ivan To Man Pang v. Anthony Ye, Citi Realty Services, Financial Manager, et al. Second Circuit 2024-07-31 Denied abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure credibility credibility-challenge evidence-standard genuine-issues-of-material-fact material-fact nonmoving-party summary-judgment 1. Whether the lower court erred in granting summary judgment by failing to view the evidence in the light most favorable to the nonmoving party and r…
23-6829 Edward Joseph Parson v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-abuse child-sexual-abuse credibility evidence-rule-702 expert-testimony jury-determination jury-role prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-evidence witness-credibility In a prosecution for aggravated child sexual abuse in which the alleged victim has inconsistently reported abuses, may the prosecution present expert …
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…
23-529 Matthew Hayko v. Indiana Indiana 2023-11-17 Denied Response Waived appellate-review credibility criminal-procedure evidence-weighing harmless-error sixth-amendment trial-by-jury witness-credibility Whether an appellate court can violate a defendant's right to trial by jury under the Sixth Amendment by weighing evidence and judging the credibility…
23-346 Torriano Walpool v. Texas Texas 2023-10-02 Denied Relisted (2) actual-innocence credibility credibility-determination criminal-procedure deference-to-trial-court due-process habeas-corpus standard-of-review trial-court-findings In Texas law, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals considers the trial court the "eyes and ears" of the Court in making findings to aid the Court in de…
23-339 J. M. F. v. New Jersey Department of Treasury, Division of Pensions and Benefits New Jersey 2023-10-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-hearing administrative-law burden-of-proof civil-rights credibility credibility-determination disability disability-benefits due-process first-amendment 1. Whether ALJs violate the rule of law by depriving petitioners of their disability pensions on credibility grounds when petitioners have met their…
23-5677 Rodtravion Woods v. Brian Cates, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights credibility credibility-challenge effective-assistance-of-counsel government-witness habeas-corpus impeachment-evidence ineffective-assistance prejudice sixth-amendment trial-counsel Was petitioner prejudicially denied his constitutional right to the effective assistance of counsel when his counsel failed to impeach a critical gove…
23-188 Robert Dayon Dumas v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-29 Denied Response Waived credibility fifth-amendment fourth-amendment miranda-rights probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-search warrantless-search 1. Did the district court err in finding no Fourth or Fifth Amendment violation based upon the court's credibility determination on Deputy Denbo. 2. …
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…
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…
22-7710 Michael Walker v. Morris Houser, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Benner Township, et al. Third Circuit 2023-06-05 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-evidence credibility criminal-procedure due-process evidence exclusionary-rule federal-procedure judicial-review standing state-law timeliness 1) He 5uppieME CowftT SfafeJ 4KaV -Vhe peV.'URfef rO^ ' ReUbitClftifris OF ccfiiVVuFcnal CXCcR tOi-W\ ^uEvJvAence .v6 peYA.cn ^ of ^tu3 r p^-V.-ViC^rW…
22-615 Estate of Eric Jack Logan v. City of South Bend, Indiana, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-01-05 Denied circuit-split civil-rights credibility credibility-challenge due-process legal-procedure police-shooting summary-judgment witness witness-testimony A police shooting case where the defendant officer has killed the only other witness to the incident presents difficult questions. The circuits are di…
22-6085 Curtis Neville v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-materiality brady-v-maryland cooperating-witness credibility criminal-evidence due-process due-process-violation kyles-v-whitley material-evidence prosecutorial-disclosure witness-credibility In a prosecution built almost entirely on the credibility of cooperating Government witnesses, is an incentivized cooperating witness's letter address…
22-5726 Veronica Gonzalez-Carmona v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-09-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP credibility drug-interdiction fourth-amendment law-enforcement officer-testimony rodriguez-precedent rodriguez-v-united-states safety-valve-relief traffic-stop 1. Whether an officer's interspersed drug interdiction questions impermissibly extend a traffic stop per this Court's decision in Rodriguez v. United …
22-80 Frank Napolitano, et al. v. Laurence Washington Second Circuit 2022-07-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split credibility criminal-investigation law-enforcement probable-cause qualified-immunity subjective-intent warrant-application 1. Whether the Court of Appeals improperly denied qualified immunity by requiring an officer to disclose his subjective intent and state of mind in a …
21-7981 Jeffrey Ray Sundwall v. Florida Florida 2022-05-26 Denied IFP constitutional-rights credibility criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial impartiality judicial-misconduct legal-ethics public-trust Contrary to Severener's errer, Grndaticol eer Or Harmless Preedureal Delbele can any Trdlted-wnreade be vali when browaht by Un credible Persons who a…
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…
21-1319 Mark Nordlicht and David Levy v. United States Second Circuit 2022-04-04 Denied Amici (1) credibility criminal-procedure discretion district-court-discretion evidence-weighing federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure jury-verdict new-trial new-trial-motion rule-33 standard-of-review witness-credibility Whether district courts have discretion to weigh the evidence, including the credibility of witnesses, when deciding to grant a new trial under Rule 3…
21-6836 Daniel Locus v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2022-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP credibility criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification federal-courts judicial-review state-court-review state-courts wrongful-conviction wrongful-convictions 1. Did the District Court's ruling consistent with the holdings in Neil v. Biqqers , 2243 (1977)?423 U.S. 98, 114, 53 L.Ed.2d 140, 97 S. Ct. 2. If t…
21-6823 Richard M. Arnold v. Reed A. Richardson, Warden Seventh Circuit 2022-01-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence credibility federal-petition habeas-corpus reasonable-juror recantation reliability schlup-standard standard-of-review Whether, when assessing a claim of actual innocence, the district court must determine as a matter of fact whether the new evidence is credible and re…
21-6272 Igor Perlov v. California California 2021-11-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP credibility credibility-determination criminal-charge due-process harmless-error jury-instruction reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment A jury convicted petitioner of unlawful possession of ammunition, which police found in a cardboard box in the trunk of his car. Petitioner testified …
21-6173 Rotimi Salu 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 administrative-law confrontation confrontation-rights credibility due-process employment-law hearsay hearsay-evidence witness-credibility Does it violate due process of law for a state agency to routinely adjudicate accusations of wrongdoing on hearsay evidence alone (in over 95 percent …
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,…
21-6086 William Keith Watson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment conflicting-testimony credibility deputy-testimony due-process fourth-amendment stop-and-frisk supervisory-jurisdiction suppression-hearing sworn-deposition testimony Whether in the exercise of its supervisory jurisdiction over the United States Courts, this Court should correct the correctable injustice that occurr…
21-5910 Carlos Sauzo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-10-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment burden-of-proof constitutional-rights credibility due-process evidentiary-hearing fifth-amendment inconclusive-record judicial-review sixth-amendment Does the Fifth and Sixth Amendment require the lower court to address an evidentiary hearing when the record before the court is inconclusive as to wh…
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…
20-6928 Timothy Ivey v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP credibility credibility-determination due-process fifth-amendment out-of-court-identification reliability revocation revocation-hearing supervised-release (1) Does a district court violate a defendant's due process rights by relying solely on an uncorroborated, recanted, out-of-court identification to re…
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.
20-5151 Antoine Reed v. Daniel Paramo, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appointed-counsel clear-error compulsory-process credibility federal-district-court material-witness police-manipulation procedural-bar standard-of-review state-law state-law-error I Did the federal distf\ct_ccuov commit-clear error. Whan it deemed Mr. secVvonj2.zs4 compulsoryprocess viola- ti_QO_cV&lmaoJbe_anAn cognizable lA…
20-5154 Jorge Armando Herrera Salguero v. California Ninth Circuit 2020-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability closing-argument credibility due-process habeas habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility Is the Ninth Circuit's denial of a COA on Salguero's prosecutorial misconduct claim contrary to this Court's jurisprudence?
20-5038 Reza Olangian v. United States Second Circuit 2020-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP credibility due-process fair-trial government-informant government-witness trial-procedure truthfulness witness-availability witness-credibility witness-testimony 1. Is a defendant deprived of a fair trial when government witnesses are invited to comment on his credibility and candor, and when he in turn is aske…
19-1383 Michael Leidig, et al. v. BuzzFeed, Inc. Second Circuit 2020-06-16 Denied Response Waived burden-of-proof civil-rights credibility evidence evidentiary-standard falsity first-amendment free-press free-speech freedom-of-the-press libel media-defendant summary-judgment This Court has held that the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of the press requires that when a plaintiff sues a media defendant for libel, base…
19-1255 Renee Baker, Warden, et al. v. Jeff N. Rose Ninth Circuit 2020-04-30 Denied aedpa credibility criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-evidence-admissibility due-process evidence evidentiary-ruling habeas-corpus impeachment nevada-v-jackson ninth-circuit prior-acquittals state-court-review Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision violates AEDPA, given that this Court reversed the Ninth Circuit under materially similar circumstances in Nevada…
19-1156 Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General v. Cesar Alcaraz-Enriquez Ninth Circuit 2020-03-20 Judgment Issued administrative-adjudication administrative-law appellate-procedure appellate-review credibility credibility-determination due-process immigration-law judicial-review standard-of-review withholding-of-removal Whether a court of appeals may conclusively presume an applicant's testimony is credible and true whenever an immigration judge or the Board of Immigr…
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…
19-8031 James Allen Gregg v. United States District Court for the District of South Dakota Eighth Circuit 2020-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure credibility credibility-determination district-court due-process evidentiary-standard judicial-review magistrate-judge procedural-fairness witness Is a defendant's due process rights adequetLy protected when a district judge rejects a magistrate judge's proposed findings on credibility when those…
19-1028 Alina Korsunska v. Chad Wolf, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Ninth Circuit 2020-02-19 Denied Response Waived credibility employment-discrimination evidence-law intent-and-motivation intent-motivation jury-trial material-dispute retaliation summary-judgment title-vii U.S. Supreme Court and every circuit has at one time or another expressed the view that employment discrimination and retaliation cases are poor candi…
19-7644 George Jones v. Cindy Griffith, Warden Eighth Circuit 2020-02-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion alford-plea appeal credibility direct-appeal expert-witness expert-witness-credibility ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-remedies prejudice sentencing-discrepancy trial-court-discretion 1. Has prejudice been shown where defense counsel fails to investigate the credibility of the Defense's expert witness, causing said expert witness …
19-7306 Dmitry Pronin v. Charles Wright, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-01-15 Denied IFP 4th-circuit appellate-review civil-rights credibility district-court due-process legal-construction procedural-interpretation standing summary-judgment 1. May an United States District Judge construe legal argument for a party in a civil rights lawsuit, an argument that we forty itself never wisely in…
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…
19-6848 Robert Matthew Wittal v. Montana Montana 2019-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP co-defendant-testimony credibility criminal-procedure criminal-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions legal-objection sixth-amendment witness-credibility The states key witnesses at a homicide trial were three charged co-defendants. Petitioner's defense rested upon undermining the credibility of the c…
19-702 Alen Dean O'Bryant v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2019-12-03 Denied credibility due-process evidentiary-bolstering minor minor-witness physical-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct sexual-assault vouching witness-credibility Does Due Process prohibit a State from presenting multiple witnesses and the prosecutor from vouching for the credibility of a minor complaining witne…
19-685 Edward George McGregor v. Texas Texas 2019-11-27 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) credibility cross-examination due-process false-testimony materiality prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility Is the materiality of false testimony knowingly used by the prosecution determined by asking whether the jury would have convicted the defendant had t…
19-6597 Thiodore Igorovich Galitsa v. United States Second Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP credibility criminal-history criminal-procedure-due-process cross-examination dismissed-case dismissed-charges due-process fair-trial false-statements illegal-reentry prior-arrests prior-convictions prosecutorial-misconduct trial-fairness Was Mr. Galitsa denied his right to a fair trial by the government's repeated questioning about allegations from a case dismissed for lack of evidence…
19-6506 Joshua Jake White v. Mark Nooth, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2019-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP credibility credibility-contest criminal-procedure expert-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief prevailing-professional-norm professional-norm sixth-amendment Counsel failed to object to prejudicial testimony. Specifically, the State's expert's testimony vouched for the alleged victim's allegations of abuse …
19-456 John Buncich v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-10-07 Denied Response Waived appellate-review chapman-error credibility credibility-assessment criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-standard harmless-error judicial-discretion rule-404(b) Where there is a finding of Chapman error, does the appellate court err by relying on its own assessment of the credibility of the defendant's testimo…
19-5348 Stanley James Oliver v. Glenn Johnson, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability credibility credibility-challenge habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel summary-reversal telephone-records trial-counsel A federal habeas petitioner challenging a state conviction cannot obtain appellate review unless and until a certificate of appealability ("COA") issu…
19-5290 Ryan Keith Mason v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-07-23 Denied IFP appellate-review attorney-performance credibility credibility-determination criminal-procedure deference deference-standard deference-to-trial-court evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-sufficiency plea-bargaining plea-offer standard-of-review Where deference is the only issue singled out by a Court of Appeals as the only question as to debatability, and that specific deference goes directly…
18-9566 Jason Brady Sain v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2019-06-06 Denied IFP closing-arguments credibility due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment theory-of-the-case witness-credibility 1. WAS PETITIONER'S SIXTH AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS TO A FAIR TRIAL VIOLATED WHEN THE PROSECUTOR COMMITTED PLAIN AND OBVIOUS CONSTITUTIONAL ERRO…
18-9525 Mark A. Harris v. Suzanne M. Peery, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP credibility credibility-determination criminal-procedure-ineffective-assistance-of-couns evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus hill-v-lockhart ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel parole-eligibility plea-bargaining strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Extending Strickland v. Washington's general prejudice standard for ineffective assistance of counsel claims to ineffective assistance of counsel stem…
18-1482 Semyya Lanise Cunningham v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-05-29 Denied circumstantial-guarantees circumstantial-guarantees-of-trustworthiness credibility credibility-of-witnesses district-court district-court-discretion evidence-law evidence-rule-807 federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay-exception hearsay-rule judicial-discretion residual-hearsay-exception rule-807 trustworthiness witness-credibility Whether a finding of "circumstantial guarantees of trustworthiness" may be premised on a district court's belief in the truth of the hearsay statement…
18-8847 Javier Bocanegra, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP chain-of-custody cocaine-conspiracy conspiracy controlled-substances cooperating-witnesses credibility criminal-conspiracy criminal-law deferred-adjudication drug-offense-enhancement evidence full-faith-and-credit reasonable-doubt I. Is there insufficient evidence for a conspiracy to transport cocaine conviction based upon the testimony of cooperating witnesses who are not credi…
18-8728 Joseph Christen Thoresen v. Minnesota Minnesota 2019-04-08 Denied IFP corroborating-testimony credibility credibility-of-witnesses criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-due-process-jury-instructions-d criminal-procedure-jury-instructions drug-addiction due-process forensic-evidence jury-instruction jury-instructions methamphetamine prejudicial-evidence prejudicial-information witness-credibility Whether the court below erroneously held, in conflict with the decisions of two circuits, that a special jury instruction was not warranted when consi…
18-1127 SpeedyPC Software v. Archie Beaton Seventh Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied Response Waived affidavit-sampling affidavits class-certification consumer-fraud credibility due-process implied-warranty individual-issues sampling 1. Is it proper for a court to certify a class by suggesting that individual issues can be resolved by the submission of affidavits from each individu…
18-8001 William Fykes v. West Virginia West Virginia 2019-02-15 Denied IFP 14th-amendment constitutional-rights credibility criminal-procedure due-process intent jury-instructions post-arrest-silence prosecutorial-misconduct self-incrimination Whether Petitioner's rights under the due process of law of the US Constitution's XIV Amendment and W.Va. Constitution Art. III, §10, were violated wh…
18-7576 Jordaan Stanly Creque v. Alabama Alabama 2019-01-25 Denied IFP capital-murder constitutional-rights credibility death-penalty due-process law-enforcement-testimony law-enforcement-witness reliable-process summation summation-and-bolstering trial-by-jury witness-credibility Where a law enforcement witness who has been seated at counsel table throughout trial gives testimony bolstering other witnesses' credibility and summ…
18-7396 Alonzo Fishback v. Mike Parris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa credibility credibility-of-counsel deference-to-state-court due-process federal-review federal-review-of-state-court-findings habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-minimum-sentencing sixth-amendment state-post-conviction state-post-conviction-review The Anti-Te rrorism and Effe ctive De ath Penalty Act (A EDPA) re quires a f ederal habe as corpus c ourt to g ive substantial defe rence to the findi…
18-7189 George Leslie Manlove v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights credibility due-process fact-finding fair-trial jury-role leading-questions prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-jury witness-credibility WAS PETITIONER DENIED HIS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS, INCLUDING HIS RIGHT TO A FAIR TRIAL, BECAUSE THE PROSECUTOR'S CALCULATED, SUSTAINED, AND IMPROPER USE…
18-6970 Jose Antonio Jimenez v. Florida Florida 2018-12-10 Denied IFP brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland credibility due-process eighth-amendment exculpatory-evidence giglio-v-united-states giglio-violation lethal-injection materiality police-misconduct strategic-choices 1.Whether a defendant's personal knowledge of an exculpatory or favorable fact relieves the State of its duty to disclose evidence in its possession p…
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 …
18-6556 David McAlister, Sr. v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2018-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court credibility credibility-of-witness criminal-procedure cumulative-evidence due-process exculpatory-evidence legal-standard newly-discovered-evidence reasonable-probability recantation state-witness witness-credibility Did the circuit court erroneously violate petitioner's right to due process when it applied an incorrect legal standard to newly discovered evidence? …
18-6371 Tyrell Henderson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP credibility criminal-procedure evidence jury-instructions mistrial prior-conviction Whether a mistrial should have been declared after the prosecutor improperly introduced evidence of the defendant's prior federal conviction where the…
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…
18-5255 Jerome Gibson v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2018-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-claim brady-v-maryland credibility de-novo-review due-process evidence-suppression investigation kyles-standard kyles-v-whitley materiality materiality-test police-investigation reliability suppressed-evidence witness-credibility In de novo review of a Brady claim, where the Commonwealth suppressed evidence of inducements provided to its witnesses, may a court find the suppress…