| 22-7393 |
Allen W. Thompson v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Virginia |
2023-04-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
affidavit-requirement collateral-attack credibility-of-witnesses criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-standards habeas-corpus habeas-petition ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-litigation standard-of-review |
Pro se litigants filing claims of ineffective assistance of counsel and claims 1. are
routinely dismissed as "insufficient " "where it is merely concl… |
| 22-6394 |
Van Raymond Brollini v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review conflicting-evidence credibility-of-witnesses evidence-preclusion harmless-error jury-trial sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-jury-trial tax-prosecution willfulness |
L. In conducting harmless-error review, an appellate court may not resolve
conflicting evidence or assess the credibility of witnesses. Neder v. Unite… |
| 22-5547 |
Seneca Loyal Neal v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment body-camera-evidence constitutional-rights credibility-of-witnesses drug-conspiracy exclusionary-rule illegal-entry illegal-search-and-seizure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice section-2255-motion |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit erred in affirming the District Court's denial of Mr. Neal's 28 USC 2255 claim, where the District … |
| 21-6897 |
Ramon Torres Ruelas v. Troy Bowser, Superintendent, Two Rivers Correctional Institution |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-sex-case child-sex-crimes credibility-of-witnesses criminal-defense evidentiary-sufficiency ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lack-of-admissions lack-of-eyewitness-testimony lack-of-physical-evidence trial-strategy witness-credibility |
Whether it is an unreasonable determination of the facts and the law to conclude that trial counsel need not investigate witnesses with critical infor… |
| 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, … |
| 20-5171 |
Cedric Watkins v. Kenneth D. Hutchison, Warden, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-07-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights credibility-of-witnesses due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence-sufficiency fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance jackson-v-virginia sixth-amendment witness-credibility |
This case presents two important nationwide issues. The first issue concerns an inappropriate application of a U.S. Supreme Court precedent and whethe… |
| 19-101 |
Imperium IP Holdings (Cayman), Ltd. v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-07-19 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
appellate-review burden-of-proof credibility-determinations credibility-of-witnesses expert-testimony jury-trial jury-trial-rights jury-verdict patent-infringement patent-invalidity patent-validity seventh-amendment standard-of-review |
The question presented is whether an appellate court may reverse a jury verdict based on its own view that expert testimony was credible, "unrebutted,… |
| 19-5007 |
Jonathan Paul Sikes v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-01 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence credibility-of-witnesses criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia juvenile-offender reasonable-doubt sexual-offenses standard-of-proof sufficiency-of-evidence testimony witness-credibility |
Question #1:
The Northern District Court reasoned that because K.S. told '
other people (speculating what K.S. told other witnesses ), "there
was ab… |
| 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… |
| 18-8728 |
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… |