| 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
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| 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… |