| 25-6741 |
Kimberly Cannon v. Florida |
Florida |
2026-02-06 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility probation-violation search-and-seizure warrantless-search |
I. DOES EVIDENCE OBTAINED DURING A WARRANTLESS
SEARCH USED IN A PROBATION VIOLATION REVOCATION
PROCEEDING AND ALSO AS A BASIS FOR NEW LAW
VIOLATION… |
| 25-6125 |
Sylvia Olivas, aka Sylvia Lee Gavaldon v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
dual-role-testimony evidence-admissibility expert-witness gatekeeping-role rule-403 rule-702 |
A witness who testifies as a lay witness offering either factual testimony and/or lay opinion testimony and also testifies as an expert offering exper… |
| 25-5977 |
Dwayne Ernest Wharton v. Texas |
Texas |
2025-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility fourth-amendment gps-tracking search-warrant third-party-doctrine |
Does a violation of the Fourth Amendment, as enunciated in this Court's holdings in Carpenter v. United States, 138 U.S. 2206 (2018) and United States… |
| 25-305 |
Louise DeBerry v. Chicago Board of Education, et al. |
Illinois |
2025-09-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-hearing due-process evidence-admissibility fourteenth-amendment fundamental-fairness witness-testimony |
Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment provide a mechanism for relief in administrative hearings when evidence is introduced that is … |
| 25-5533 |
Stanton Guillory v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility propensity-evidence rule-404b witness-testimony |
Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b) prohibits the use of a defendant's other bad acts to argue he has a propensity to commit a crime. The Government never… |
| 25-5462 |
Deandre Wilson v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-courts constitutional-rights criminal-defendants due-process evidence-admissibility federal-rules-of-evidence |
Are the divided federal appellate courts applying too stringent a standard when evaluating the admissibility of evidence under Federal Rule of Evidenc… |
| 25-5451 |
Zephaniah S. Edwards v. Bland Management, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-08-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure district-court due-process evidence-admissibility federal-rules virginia-law |
Question I: Whether under Virginia Law, when determining the majority of
motions for this case, can unfair, unjust and biased decisions be made by de… |
| 25-5252 |
Eric David Marrufo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-07-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights evidence-admissibility harmless-error jury-deliberation jury-impartiality rule-606b |
A. Whether the Petitioner was denied his constitutional right to an impartial jury and to a fair trial when the District Court:
a. After denying the … |
| 25-5155 |
Luis Payano-Perez v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
evidence-admissibility evidentiary-purpose inference-chain propensity-evidence rule-404b trial-court-discretion |
1. Whether a trial court, in admitting evidence under Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b), must explicitly articulate the "chain of inferences" it relied … |
| 24-6992 |
Mehdi Nikparvar-Fard v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process evidence-admissibility fifth-amendment guilty-plea legal-counsel motion-to-withdraw |
1. Whether the district judge's decision to deny the defendant's motion to withdraw his guilty plea violated the defendant's Fifth Amendment right to … |
| 24-6379 |
Lamar Reese v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2025-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause constitutional-review due-process evidence-admissibility polygraph-evidence scientific-evidence |
itie Cause Involves cl SubstartlaJ Const ?tust,ona. I guest ?o n pursuant to
Article Wi, Section Cl (8)( jz)£cl)(j') °ftbe °h?o Constltu-hlon, omd fun… |
| 24-6257 |
Willie Cory Godbolt v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2025-01-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility fourth-amendment search-and-seizure |
1). a fleujS RrsV AM^Neine/lV pnvileg "Vo sVueldt Vver ^acirce^ -Vru.wjp?. CrirairvaX c^e^w^fyl's v)t<^W Ar/be>,vA<vien-V r'l^j/feV- 4© CjQj^rorvVouV^… |
| 24-6240 |
Jarrell Raeshon Bordeaux v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
co-conspirator-testimony conspiracy-evidence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility |
Do Federal Corridor Caquitainments ony Courts Yn Opracniesy ytorrnantn?
Shola Gorrdoorabion Caquiramentss Ye implenanted into lass, \n anger ok Se Lo… |
| 24-5927 |
William Dale Watson v. William Streeter, Warden, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-11-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility judicial-error jurisdictional-challenge prosecutorial-misconduct trial-fairness |
1. Mr. Watson alleged the circuit court did not have the jurisdiction to try his case or sentence him, due to his Forged waiver of arraignment by an o… |
| 24-5793 |
Derek Don Posey v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2024-10-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
acquittal-standard case-law evidence-admissibility judicial-precedent procedural-review ultimate-issue |
WHETHER EVIDENCE FROMAPRIORPROCEEDING WHICH RESULTED
INACQUITTAL SHOULD HAVEBEENDEEMED INADMISSIBLE BECAUSE
THEACQUITTAL DETERMINED ANULTIMATE ISSUECO… |
| 24-5758 |
Eriston Wilson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-10-15 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split conspiracy-charge evidence-admissibility extrinsic-evidence intent-determination rule-404b |
Does the Fifth Circuit's rule that a plea of not guilty to a conspiracy charge automatically renders similar, extrinsic acts admissible as relevant to… |
| 24-5700 |
Andersen Rable v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-10-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
atf-interpretation criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility federal-firearms-license firearms-regulation mens-rea |
1. Whether the District Court, Erred When It Refused to Allow Evidence of the Fact That the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms (hereinafter ATF), … |
| 24-5519 |
Matthew Peddicord v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-09-11 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility prior-bad-acts propensity-evidence rule-404b |
Whether evidence of prior bad acts is admissible under Rule 404(b) where its relevance to a proper purpose depends on propensity reasoning. |
| 24-5292 |
Shawn Paul O'Brien v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2024-08-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct sexual-offense |
For the Supreme Court of the United States to Correct these errors from the
Court of Appeals of the State of Kansas and any error found from any other… |
| 24-5132 |
Charles Fitzgerald Branch v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split evidence-admissibility evidence-admission federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay hearsay-rule judicial-interpretation non-hearsay non-hearsay-probative-value probative-value procedural-standard |
Should this Court resolve a split between the Ninth and Third circuits, where the Third Circuit has condemned the admission of evidence for a non-hear… |
| 24-5021 |
Joyce Isagba v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
admissibility criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility federal-rules-of-evidence-404b fifth-amendment prior-bad-acts relevance rule-404b sentencing-conditions supervised-release |
I. Under Rule 404(b), Federal Rules of Evidence, is a single uncharged act occurring 5-7 year prior to the charged conduct in question, without any in… |
| 23-7545 |
Bobby Tatum v. Darren Galloway, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence child-victim-testimony civil-rights confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel video-evidence |
1) Whether it's Proper For the District court to Tawed and Cove ANd CaiWote-to Growed Pex Alors 40 Goppgrts Me Chem & GAC Facroul Lonocences and déry … |
| 23-1186 |
Rodney Thomas Ternovsky v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-05-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
consent due-process evidence-admissibility fair-trial Fourteenth-Amendment irrelevant-evidence jury-prejudice prejudicial-evidence trial-procedure |
Whether the Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment due process right to a fair trial was violated when the trial court allowed the State to inform the jury… |
| 23A972 |
Benjamin Biancofiori v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-05-01 |
Presumed Complete |
|
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility hearsay-exception sex-trafficking sixth-amendment |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7037 |
Billy Joe King v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction burden-of-proof civil-procedure competency-hearing constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility judicial-review mental-capacity standing |
Question not identified. |
| 23A848 |
Carlos Vega v. Terence B. Tekoh |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-03-19 |
Presumed Complete |
|
civil-rights constitutional-violation evidence-admissibility law-enforcement miranda-rights section-1983 |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6866 |
Cesar Abreu v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-02-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility federal-rule-of-evidence-404b federal-rules-of-evidence fifth-amendment narcotics narcotics-distribution prior-conviction prior-convictions search-and-seizure |
Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, affirming Petitioner's conviction of narcotics distribution in the … |
| 23A794 |
Gail M. Ritchey v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2024-02-27 |
Presumed Complete |
|
confrontation-clause constitutional-criminal-procedure coroner's-report evidence-admissibility hearsay sixth-amendment |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6489 |
Robert E. Harrison v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence evidence-admissibility intent-knowledge prior-bad-acts prior-conviction propensity-evidence rule-404(b) rule-404b statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
1. Are prior gun possession convictions admissible under Rule 404(b) to prove knowing or intentional gun possession on a later date when the governmen… |
| 23-6356 |
Mohammad Sharifi v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2023-12-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocent armed-evidence constitutional-search criminal-procedure direct-evidence due-process evidence-admissibility forensic-evidence fourth-amendment police-misconduct reasonable-doubt trial-judge |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6293 |
Shallon Hawkins v. David Vandergriff, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-12-18 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-suppress newly-discovered-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct trial-court |
Did the United States District Court error, by denying my Claims for procedural defaultier tl rue thon, under Nociner, Glenn furstamental Fcnesy Vewly… |
| 23-6271 |
Tyrone Maddox v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2023-12-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure evidence evidence-admissibility intent intent-element judicial-discretion narcotics-charge prejudice prejudicial-evidence prior-conviction prior-convictions probative-value |
The trial court should not have allowed the introduction of Tyrone Maddox's 20 year old prior Indiana Conviction for delivery of Narcotics on the issu… |
| 23-5838 |
Mario Reynoso, aka Mario Hernandez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-10-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
admissibility-of-evidence character-evidence district-court-discretion district-courts evidence-admissibility federal-rules-of-evidence non-propensity-purpose reasoning rule-404(b)(2) rule-404b ultimate-decision |
Whether Rule 404(b)(2) of the Federal Rules of Evidence permits district courts the use of propensity/character-conforming reasoning to reach an ultim… |
| 23-187 |
Michael Ramon Ochoa v. Arthur Levine, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2023-08-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law civil-procedure cloud-based-evidence cloud-computing constitutional-jurisdiction discovery evidence-admissibility federal-rules-of-evidence hipaa-privacy-rule judicial-procedure medical-records rule-32 |
1. Are the cloud-based #NetoOrganon and the dashboard tools attached as exhibits admissible as models per Rule 32 of this Court? = YES
2. Do the resp… |
| 23-5413 |
Christopher Ray Lipska, aka Christopher Ray Hare v. Oregon |
Oregon |
2023-08-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
child-abuse child-sexual-abuse criminal-procedure evidence evidence-admissibility judicial-discretion prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-proportionality sexual-abuse |
1) In an ECSA and unlawful contact with a trial, does a trial court abuse its OEC 401, 402, 403 discretion by allowing the state to present evidence t… |
| 23-5409 |
Peter Fratus v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-08-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
evidence-admissibility kars4kids prejudicial-effect probative-value rep-waters third-circuit |
I. Whether the Third Circuit did not properly weigh the probative value with the prejudicial effect when admitting the messages to Kars4Kids and Rep. … |
| 23-5161 |
Derek M. Funk v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2023-07-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 9th-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility statute-interpretation statutory-interpretation |
Are Oklahoma statute(s) 21 O.S. § 1040.12(a), 21 O.S. 1040.8 (a), and 21 O.S. § 1024.1 in conformity with the United States Constitution, Amendment(s)… |
| 22-7905 |
Tikisha Upshaw v. California |
California |
2023-06-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
cell-phone-location co-defendant criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility expert-witness fair-trial jury-instructions police-testimony scientific-reliability witness-testimony |
Question not identified. |
| 22-7870 |
Jayson Neil Sparks v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-06-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility federal-courts standing state-court-ruling statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 22-7828 |
John C. Russell v. Patrick Covello, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-06-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
dna-evidence due-process evidence-admissibility generally-accepted novel-methodology pre-trial-hearing reliability scientific-methodology scientific-reliability |
1. DNA evidence play ed a central role in this 44 y ear-old murder case in two way s: the presence
of a "match" between petitioner's profile and the m… |
| 22-7787 |
Noel K. Bango v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights discovery-violation dna-evidence due-process evidence-admissibility federal-rights police-misconduct police-reports sexual-battery speedy-trial tainted-evidence trial-procedure |
1. IS IT POSSIBLE TO HAVE AN INDIVIDUAL 'S DNA BUCCAL SWABS
TAKEN IN NEW JERSEY, FEBRUARY 15, 2019, FEDERAL EXPRESSED TO
FLORIDA, AND FLORIDA, RECEI… |
| 22-7741 |
Rudy Alvarez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-06-09 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility fifth-amendment law-enforcement-procedure miranda-warning miranda-warnings police-interrogation self-incrimination supreme-court |
1. When determining whether statements made after a midstream Miranda warning are admissible, do courts consider the warning's objective effectiveness… |
| 22-7711 |
William Jon Patric Ebert v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility fourth-circuit prior-bad-acts rule-404(b) rule-404b sixth-circuit united-states-v-stout |
WHETHER THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT ERRED IN AFFIRMING THE DISTRICT COURT'S RULING TO ADMIT EVIDENCE OF THE APPELLANT'S … |
| 22-7610 |
Othniel Evans Maragh v. Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-05-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence evidence-admissibility judicial-bias standing summary-judgment |
Is it ethical or legal for the Southern District Court of New York's Judge, Jesse M Furman to disregard every shred of evidence presented by the Plain… |
| 22-7437 |
Kevin Darrell Miller v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
contemporaneous-conduct criminal-procedure drug-distribution drug-use evidence evidence-admissibility intent-standard mens-rea possession |
Whether, in a drug distribution trial, evidence of a defendant's drug use and simple possession is admissible to prove mens rea if the use and possess… |
| 22-7204 |
Eriston Wilson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-04 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-conflict conspiracy conspiracy-charges evidence-admissibility extrinsic-evidence intent intent-standard not-guilty rule-404(b) rule-404b |
Each Court of Appeals has instituted its own multi-pronged test for determining the admissibility of extrinsic evidence under Fed. R. Evid. 404(b), cr… |
| 22-6731 |
Lamon Demetrus Wright v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
confrontation confrontation-rights due-process evidence-admissibility federal-courts good-cause good-cause-standard hearsay hearsay-reliability reliability supervised-release |
What manner of hearsay should be considered "reliable" when federal courts decide whether the government has established "good cause" to deny confront… |
| 22-6612 |
Teri Bernard Johnson v. Randee Rewerts, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
capital-murder civil-rights courtroom-access criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mitigating-evidence public-trial right-to-counsel sentencing-phase |
Question not identified. |
| 22-6615 |
Robert Jim v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility evidence-presentation fair-trial improper-evidence reasonable-doubt sentencing trial-fairness |
I. Whether The Court Violated Jim's Constitutional Rights To Due Process & A Fair Trial By Allowing Improper Evidence & Preventing Him From Presenting… |
| 22-6601 |
Rick Benavides v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process entrapment evidence-admissibility government-inducement law-enforcement-conduct predisposition social-media |
Petitioner was subjected to a pervasive inducement campaign by government agents using social media and texts to his personal phone. The question pres… |
| 22-6563 |
Jaquain Young v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
complete-defense confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-discretion right-to-present-defense severance witness-recantation |
1. Shortly after the murder of Jelvon Helton, which petitioner was convicted of, witness Tierra Lewis went to the police, circled codefendant Esau Fer… |
| 22-5980 |
Arius Hopkins v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-11-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility fair-trial federal-rules-of-evidence grand-jury rule-404(b) trial-fairness |
Whether the admission of evidence of prior alleged conduct similar to the crime on trial and dismissed by a grand jury, which was noticed for one purp… |
| 22-5590 |
Robert Nathan Hensley v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-09-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-scrutiny prosecutorial-misconduct sexual-offenses |
Is it INEFFECTINE ASSISTENCE OF COUNSEL WHERE : THEREBY PROUING NOT ALLOWE "TAMPERED EVIDENCE" WERE AT TRIAL DUE TO THE JUOGE "CHOOSINE 11 THIS WAS ON… |
| 22-5576 |
Thoucharin Ruttanamongkongul v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-09-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility human-trafficking sentencing sentencing-guidelines sex-work sexual-offense statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
When state values v. evidence, to show that petitioner fired (unclear handwriting) to the United States to court completely e.g. a six footers; and th… |
| 22-167 |
Daniel J. Van Linn v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2022-08-23 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
circuit-split evidence-admissibility exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment independent-source objective-inquiry reasonable-officer subjective-inquiry |
Whether a court seeking to determine if a source of evidence is "genuinely independent" for purposes of the "independent source" exception to the excl… |
| 22-5150 |
Julio Cesar Gomez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-07-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process entrapment entrapment-defense evidence-admissibility fair-trial inadmissible-evidence judicial-discretion preemptive-rebuttal |
The Second, Seventh, Eighth, Eleventh, and D.C. Circuits require that before the government may introduce otherwise inadmissible evidence to rebut a c… |
| 21-7506 |
Curtis Carr v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2022-03-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility fair-trial fifth-amendment interrogation interrogation-techniques videotaped-evidence |
Does the admissibility of videotaped interrogations in which the interrogating officers inject their conclusions about the operator's guilt violate th… |
| 21-1100 |
3M Company, et al. v. George Amador |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-02-09 |
Denied |
Amici (6) |
appellate-review daubert-standard daubert-v-merrell-dow evidence-admissibility expert-testimony federal-rule-of-evidence-702 general-electric-v-joiner judicial-gatekeeping pending-mdl reliability-threshold standard-of-review |
1. Whether the Eighth Circuit's "so fundamentally-unsupported" standard of initial admissibility for expert testimony conflicts with this Court's prec… |
| 21-7020 |
Charles David Gordon v. Joe A. Lizarraga, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-disclosure criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility mental-health segregation self-incrimination voluntariness voluntary-statements |
I. Whether a defendant's statements may be admitted into evidence when the statements were made while she was placed in segregated confinement based o… |
| 21-1020 |
Janet Tingling v. Educational Credit Management Corporation, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-01-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
altered-documents business-records civil-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility genuine-issue loan-documents material-fact pro-se-litigation student-loans summary-judgment |
1. Whether the Court of Appeals position was inconsistent with the standards outlined in Rule 56(e), which provides that summary judgment is only prop… |
| 21-6704 |
Jose D. Drew v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-12-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion evidence-admissibility federal-rules-of-evidence jury-inference material-element prior-convictions rule-404(b) rule-404b |
Whether the abuse of discretion review of the introduction of multiple prior convictions as rule 404(b) evidence requires the government to offer some… |
| 21-6499 |
Henry Pratt v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2021-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bias civil-litigation civil-procedure evidence evidence-admissibility insurance-bias motive restitution restitution-claim settlement-agreement trial-court-discretion |
Where the trial court erred by precluding the Use of a CivifSettlement Agreement between Henry Pratt and Nationwide which was admissible to show Natio… |
| 21-6396 |
Tamara Jeune v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-11-23 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
circuit-court-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-propensity evidence-admissibility federal-rules-of-evidence prejudice prior-bad-acts probative-value propensity-evidence |
How are the courts to properly apply Fed. R. Evid. 404(b)? Should they apply the Third Circuit's more substantive approach which requires a close conn… |
| 21-6264 |
Marion Katrell Campbell v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
district-court-discretion due-process evidence evidence-admissibility federal-rules-of-evidence rule-404(b) rule-404b rule-702 trial-procedure |
WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT IMPROPERLY ALLOWED FEDERAL RULE OF EVIDENCE 404(b) & 702 IN PETITIONERS TRIAL |
| 21-6089 |
Edward N. Daniels v. Bobbi Jo Salamon, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bruton-precedent bruton-v-united-states co-conspirator co-defendant confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence-admissibility precedent |
DID THE LOWER COURT ERR WHEN THEY REFUSED TO APPLY THIS COURT'S
PRECEDENT IN BRUTON V. UNITED STATES, 391 U.S. 123 (1968) WHEN THE
CO-CONSPIRATOR / C… |
| 21-5629 |
Alba Duque v. Chabad at the Civic Center, Inc. |
Florida |
2021-09-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
contract contract-validity enforceability evidence evidence-admissibility judicial-discretion parties quit-claim-deed real-estate real-estate-contract specific-performance |
(1) *Can a Real Estate Contract be legally valid and enforceable if not all the required parties signed it?
(2) *When a Quit Claim Deed became legall… |
| 21-5579 |
Emmanuel Perez v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2021-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-split circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility evidence-rule evidentiary-standard federal-rules-of-evidence inextricably-intertwined judicial-interpretation standard-of-review |
There is a split between the United States Circuit Courts regarding whether the "inextricably intertwined " standard is a proper exception to Fed.R.Ev… |
| 21-5338 |
Michael Vincent Moore v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights dna-evidence due-process evidence-admissibility fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment mistrial probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct trial-procedure |
PETTIONER'S INTERNET FALEBOOK PAGE AND SEEING HIS TAN AND WHITE OG WHEN THE PROSECUTOR RECEIVED THE DNA REPORT ON H/D/AOL ONE WEEK BEFORE FILING AFFID… |
| 21-5032 |
Paris Poe v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-07-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
daubert daubert-standard evidence evidence-admissibility expert-testimony feature-comparison federal-rules-of-evidence reliability-standard scientific-methodology scientific-reliability subjective-feature-comparison |
Whether this Court's decision in Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc., 509 U.S. 579 (1993), and Federal Rule of Evidence 702 require lower cou… |
| 20-8425 |
Phillip L. Carson v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment brady-v-maryland constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process evidence-admissibility giglio-v-united-states judicial-precedent supreme-court-review |
right to the Due Process of Law? (uscA sth &14 th Amendments)
.Has the Supreme Courtof the Vnited States overtured its own Precident in Brady V. Mary… |
| 20-8430 |
Samuel Gayden v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-06-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
chain-of-custody criminal-procedure dna-evidence evidence-admissibility fair-trial ineffective-assistance jury-instructions lay-opinion prosecutorial-misconduct trial-procedure witness-identification |
I
Whether the State misused DNA evidence to link Petitioner to the weapon used in the offense, and
to alleged threatening letters sent from the Cook C… |
| 20-8344 |
Harry Sharod James v. Tom Brickhouse, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-06-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence-admissibility ex-post-facto grand-jury impartial-jury indictment judicial-discretion trial-rights |
Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, as applied to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment and presented to a grand jury in th… |
| 20-8151 |
Marcus D. Williams v. California |
California |
2021-05-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
confrontation-clause constitutional-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility forensic-evidence forensic-testing hearsay hearsay-evidence testimonial-statement testimonial-statements |
1. What degree of formality is necessary before hearsay statements contained within a forensic testing report which connect an accused to the testing … |
| 20-8116 |
Carlos Bayon v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence evidence-admissibility federal-rule-of-evidence-404(b) federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-discretion legal-interpretation rule-of-exclusion rule-of-inclusion |
Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b) permits the admission of evidence of any other crime, wrong or act to prove a criminal defendant's motive, opportunity… |
| 20-8134 |
Erik Jimenez v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-05-25 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
404(b)-exception abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility evidentiary-ruling later-date texas-rule-of-evidence-404(b) texas-rules-of-evidence trial-court trial-procedure |
1) Whether the trial court admissability of evidence of a later date and not for what defendant was on trial was an abuse of discretion under Texas ru… |
| 20-8081 |
Melvin Roshard Alfred v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure evidence evidence-admissibility federal-rules-of-evidence intrinsic-evidence misconduct-evidence rule-404(b) rule-404b social-media uncharged-misconduct |
Whether uncharged misconduct evidence that does not directly prove the charged crime may be deemed "intrinsic evidence" and admitted without the admis… |
| 20-7761 |
Andrew Indelicato Peterson v. S. Butler, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-04-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
conviction-challenge criminal-procedure due-process essential-elements evidence-admissibility felon-in-possession knowledge-of-status plea-agreement prior-conviction prior-misconduct sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Can the distriet Court Use Post offenic conduct for crimes that a
defendant never Served Overa Year in Prison to assume ai defendant
knew his status P… |
| 20-7675 |
John G. Stroming v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-04-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
age-gender-differences child-molestation criminal-procedure criminal-propensity evidence evidence-admissibility evidentiary-rules federal-law prior-convictions propensity victim-characteristics |
Whether prior convictions for crimes of child molestation can be admitted into evidence where – because of differences in the age and gender of the vi… |
| 20-1347 |
Selvin Eduardo Zecena-Valdez v. Nevada |
Nevada |
2021-03-25 |
Denied |
|
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility fair-trial prior-bad-acts reverse-404(b) sexual-assault |
Whether the Supreme Court of Nevada's interpretation and application of Nevada Revised Statute ("NRS") 48.045(2) deprived Mr. Zecena of his right to a… |
| 20-7503 |
Mark Randall Jones v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation gut-feeling mail-chute post-office warrantless-search warrantless-seizure |
A. Whether the Warrantless Seizure of Packages from the Mail Chute at the U.S. Post Office Based on Nothing More than a "Gut Feeling" Violates the Fou… |
| 20-7432 |
Kevin Leon Lucien v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-03-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility federal-law federal-preemption prosecutorial-discretion state-law |
Whether a state's own articles of law can supercede federal law to further prosecute a defendant in regards to admissable and inadmissable evidence th… |
| 20-1196 |
Benjamin McClellan v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2021-03-01 |
Denied |
|
5th-amendment confession-suppression constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility involuntary-confession motion-to-suppress police-interrogation standard-of-review |
Whether the denial of petitioner's Motion to Suppress his confession was proper. |
| 20-7231 |
Troy Baker v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-02-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
background-evidence circuit-split confrontation-clause criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility investigative-context jury-instructions out-of-court-statements prejudice |
Should the Court Grant the Petition to Resolve a Conflict Among the Circuit Courts Over the Propriety of Admitting Out-of-Court Statements That a Defe… |
| 20-6989 |
Rodney Louis Sims v. Kimberly A. Seibel, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cell-phone-data criminal-appeal due-process evidence-admissibility fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence ninth-circuit privacy prosecutorial-conduct reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure witness-testimony |
.IN APPENDIX H.PETITONER NOTICE OF APPEAL DID PETITIONE
SHOW "SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE AND FACTS" OF AL THREE WITNESS'S
WHO"SWEAREC UNDER OATH TO TELI THE … |
| 20-6939 |
Thomas Nevius v. Gurbir S. Grewal, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law brady-violation civil-procedure civil-rights co-defendant-confession confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence-admissibility judicial-discretion standing |
DID THE DISTRICT COURT ERR WHEN IT DECIDED THAT CO-DEFENDANT (WILLIAM BOSTON) MINIMIZED HIS INVOLVEMENT IN THE HOMICIDE, THEREFORE MAKING HIS CONFESSI… |
| 20-6675 |
Augustine L. Cavitte v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2020-12-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility law-enforcement-conduct miranda-rights prosecutorial-misconduct self-defense self-incrimination voluntariness |
1) Did the lower courts err in finding Ms. Cavitte's statements admissible contrary to present Miranda standards?
a. Did the Nebraska Court of Appeals… |
| 20-6580 |
Joseph W. Peeples, III v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-12-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arrest civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure detention due-process evidence-admissibility fourth-amendment search-and-seizure travel warrantless-search |
Does the long standing commitment on U.S. Constitution Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment to right with Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure 3, 5, 5.1, 7,… |
| 20-775 |
Clifford Williams v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2020-12-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment right-to-present-defense self-defense sixth-amendment |
Clifford Williams was convicted of murder in New Orleans, Louisiana, after the trial court denied him the right to introduce evidence showing he was r… |
| 20-6411 |
Miguel A. Ramirez v. California |
California |
2020-11-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure cumulative-error defendant-rights due-process evidence-admissibility jury-instructions prejudicial-error sexual-abuse |
1. whetheR a juRy InstRuction in corractly Stating
That Continous Sexual abuse of a child is a
general intent cRime was PRejudiciael?
2. Whothek the … |
| 20-6296 |
David Lague v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof civil-procedure evidence evidence-admissibility intent prior-acts rule-404(b) rule-404b statistical-comparison statistics unlawful-acts unlawful-intent |
Rule 404(b) prohibits evidence of a defendant's uncharged acts that "might adversely reflect on the actor's character," unless the evidence helps prov… |
| 20-6070 |
James Dee Gilmore, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility interrogation-techniques miranda-rights sixth-amendment voluntary waiver |
1. In failing to require the government to meet its heavy burden to show that defendant's post–invocation waiver of his Miranda rights, including his … |
| 20-502 |
Ken Mascara, in His Official Capacity as Sheriff of St. Lucie County, Florida, et al. v. Viola Bryant, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Gregory Vaughn Hill, Jr. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-10-16 |
Denied |
|
civil-police-liability civil-rights due-process evidence evidence-admissibility harmless-error judicial-review police-liability probation probationary-status rules-of-evidence standard-of-review |
Whether this Court should adopt a more flexible standard of admissibility of evidence than what is required by Huddleston v. U.S., 485 U.S. 681 (1988)… |
| 20-5947 |
Craig Martin Shults v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-115 criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process evidence-admissibility federal-judge federal-rules-of-evidence federal-statute federal-threat subsequent-act-evidence |
Whether, in an 18 U.S.C. § 115(a)(1)(B) prosecution for threatening a federal judge, subsequent act evidence of additional threats made months after t… |
| 20-5905 |
Travon Jarvel Jackson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility federal-rules-of-evidence rule-412 rule-608b sex-trafficking sixth-amendment witness-impeachment |
A. Whether evidence of prior prostitution activity that is inadmissible under Rule 412 of the Federal Rules of Evidence to rebut a claim of sex traffi… |
| 20-5896 |
In Re Douglas Weissert |
|
2020-10-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
confrontation-clause constitutional-rights cross-examination evidence-admissibility mental-health prescription-medication sixth-amendment trial-procedure witness-testimony |
WHETHER STATE TRIAL COURT VIOLATED SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS WHEN IT FORBADE CROSS EXAMINING ANGLE LEWIS ON MENTAL HEALTH HISTORY AND USE OF PRESCRIPTION… |
| 20-5665 |
Nathaniel Marcus Gann v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
confrontation-clause constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility habeas-corpus testimonial-statements |
1) IS THE ADMISSION OF IRRELEVANT OR OVERTLY PREJUDICIAL
EVIDENCE A DUE PROCESS VIOLATION?
(AND IS SUCH A VIOLATION SUFFICIENT TO ISSUE A WRIT OF
HABE… |
| 20-317 |
Dakai Chavis v. Delaware |
Delaware |
2020-09-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure dna-evidence evidence-admissibility multi-analyst-testing out-of-court-statements testimonial-statements |
Whether the Confrontation Clause permits DNA evidence obtained as the result of a multi-analyst testing process to be introduced against the defendant… |
| 20-5145 |
In Re Charles Talbert |
|
2020-07-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion post-conviction-review prosecutorial-misconduct |
Question not identified. |
| 19-8887 |
Maria Pena-Rivera v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court evidence-admissibility evidence-admission evidentiary-standard federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-error rule-403 rule-404(b) |
Is it error by the district court to fail to enumerate the specific basis for allowing evidence pursuant for Federal Rule of Evidence section 404(b) s… |
| 19-7800 |
Donald Sheman Bush v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion circuit-split de-novo de-novo-review evidence-admissibility evidence-rule-404b evidentiary-rules federal-rules-of-evidence-404(b) legal-interpretation other-acts rule-404b standard-of-review |
Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b) provides that "evidence of a crime, wrong, or other act is not admissible to prove a person's character in order to sh… |
| 19-7652 |
Steven Craig Whyte v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
common-sense common-sense-topics daubert daubert-standard drug-enforcement drug-experts evidence-admissibility expert-testimony jury-instructions kumho-tire |
Whether this Court's Daubert/Kumho Tire jurisprudence bars presentation of law-enforcement agent "drug experts" testifying regarding plain-English exc… |
| 19-7469 |
Olga Palamarchuk v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
escobar evidence evidence-admissibility lender-conduct mail-fraud materiality materiality-standard ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-interpretation recipient-behavior supreme-court-precedent |
This case raises questions concerning the standard by which materiality is to be determined in a mail fraud case. The United States Supreme Court in U… |
| 19-7261 |
Gibron Lopez v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-01-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
co-conspirator criminal-procedure criminal-relationship criminal-relationship-development evidence evidence-admissibility evidence-rule-404(b) hobbs-act inextricably-intertwined-evidence intimate-relationship narcotics-sales relationship rule-404(b) rule-404b sexual-relationship trust trust-relationship |
1. Where evidence of prior narcotics sales was introduced at trial to establish both a relationship of trust among co-conspirators, as well as how the… |
| 19-7138 |
Michael Blankenship v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-01-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
clean-water-act criminal-procedure environmental-law evidence evidence-admissibility eyewitness-testimony fecal-coliform intent prejudice rule-404(b) rule-404b witness-testimony |
1. Whether in a prosecution for illegally dumping waste into a creek, where a major part of the Government's case was based on eyewitness testimony ab… |
| 19-6341 |
Charles Raymond Stagner v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-intent criminal-procedure drug-crimes due-process evidence-admissibility fifth-amendment intent methamphetamine-possession sentencing sentencing-reduction sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the Fifth Amendment Guarantees the Petitioner the Right to a Judgment of Acquittal If the Government Fails to Prove the Petitioner Intended to… |
| 19-6236 |
Christina Marie Eichler v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-10-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
buyer-seller-rule circuit-split conspiracy conspiracy-to-distribute criminal-law distribution drug-sales due-process end-users evidence-admissibility jury-instruction |
1. Is evidence of drug sales admissible to prove a conspiracy to
distribute when the person charged with the conspiracy only sold drugs
to end users a… |
| 19-6179 |
Jesus Felix-Heras v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
computer-forensics confrontation-clause criminal-procedure database-search evidence-admissibility expert-testimony fingerprint-analysis forensic-evidence search-algorithm sixth-amendment |
Whether admission of the results of a search of computer fingerprint database, which the record shows to be identical to fingerprint analysis done by … |
| 19-6145 |
Anthony Mark Smith, Jr. v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2019-10-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility fair-trial hearsay precedent standard-of-proof victim-testimony |
In light of the decisions in Jackson v Virginia, 443 U.S. 307 (1979), whether the trial court erred in finding the petitioner guilty beyond a reasonab… |
| 19-6063 |
William Alexander v. New York |
New York |
2019-09-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
chambers-v-mississippi confrontation-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility eyewitness-testimony misidentification photographic-evidence |
Whether Chambers v. Mississippi, 410 U.S. 284 (1973), and its progeny require the admission of reliable photographic evidence of what an accused was w… |
| 19-367 |
Shambria Necole Smith v. Kansa Technology, L.L.C. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-19 |
Denied |
|
appeal district-court district-court-procedure due-process due-process,jury-tampering,jury-taint,trial-procee evidence-admissibility jury-taint jury-tampering trial-proceedings workers-compensation |
The testimony presented in the instant matter as well as the underlying facts and circumstances reveal that the following issues, which form the basis… |
| 19-5937 |
Raymond Johnson v. Credit One Bank, et al. |
Maryland |
2019-09-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence-admissibility free-speech judicial-discretion patent standing takings trial-procedure |
Did the trial court wrongfully deny Johnson's Fourth Amendment rights when the trial court failed to allow Johnson to present his motions to enforce S… |
| 19-5550 |
Jackie Duncan v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
10th-circuit abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure constitutional-vagueness due-process evidence-admissibility federal-courts federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-discretion procedural-error rule-403 rule-404(b) rule-404b standard-of-review |
1. WHETHER THE 10TH CIRCUIT ERRED IN RULING THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF OKLAHOMA DIDN'T ABUSE THEIR DISCRETION?
2. WHETHER ANTHONY JOHNSON. TESTIMONY OUT… |
| 19-5400 |
Jason Alston v. Prairie Farms Dairy, Inc., dba Luvel |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
admissibility civil-procedure dispositive-motion district-court evidence evidence-admissibility evidence-hearing evidentiary-hearing hearing judicial-procedure jurisdiction legal-motion |
Whether the Respondent's Declarations submitted with their Dispositive Motion inadmissible evidence?
Whether the District Court error in denying the … |
| 19-5281 |
Ronald Wesley Jiles v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2019-07-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility fair-trial fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-right jury-bias jury-instructions prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct self-incrimination |
WHETHER A DEFENDANT'S RIGHT TO EXERCISE HIS FIFTH AMENDMENT RIGHT WHILE IN OPEN COURT, COMMENTED ON BY THE PROSECUTION TO THE JURY DURING CLOSING WAS … |
| 19-5167 |
Christian Don'tae Hood v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cellular-phone co-defendant compelled-testimony compulsory-process evidence-admissibility fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-rights jury-instruction post-arrest-interview search-and-seizure self-incrimination sixth-amendment |
I.
IT WAS ERROR FOR THE TRIAL COURT TO ADMIT THE APPELLANT'S
POST-ARREST INTERVIEW WHEN THE GOVERNMENT VIOLATED HIS
FIFTH
AMENDMENT
RIGHTS
BY
FORCIBLY… |
| 19-5053 |
Brandon M. Hicks v. Renee Baker, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility fair-trial ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-conduct plea-bargaining sentencing separation-of-powers sixth-amendment |
1) Whethe tn heen o Conion
in context with his intent at sentenciny, is a violatiken of the Separation of
powers doctrine, in the United States Consti… |
| 18-9798 |
Craig A. Lee v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2019-06-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-court-conflict criminal-propensity drew-v-united-states due-process evidence-admissibility evidence-of-other-crimes federal-circuits legal-precedent precedent prior-sexual-conduct sexual-assault undue-prejudice |
Whether the DC Court of Appeals' decision directly conflicts with established legal precedent in federal circuits, in particular Drew v. United States… |
| 18-9627 |
Jeffrey Dean Tucker v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility jurisdiction standing witness-testimony |
1. As it due Process to Convict on Mort Carolyna State Citizen Subuect to General Law intent to Submet a Mort Proceds Usnd Sucrician i belied o (Aumoe… |
| 18-1491 |
Kaitlyn Nguyen v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility evidence-admission fifth-amendment inflammatory-evidence medical-clinic patient-deaths prejudicial-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether petitioner's right to due process of law under the 5th Amendment, U.S. Constitution was violated by the prosecution's introduction of highly i… |
| 18-8902 |
Gustav Kloszewski v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-04-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation Crawford-precedent crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility precedent sixth-amendment testimonial-statements |
Did the lower court fail to follow this Court's precedent in Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36 (2004). |
| 18-1262 |
Corona Regional Medical Center, et al. v. Marlyn Sali, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-02 |
Dismissed |
|
admissibility circuit-split civil-procedure class-certification evidence evidence-admissibility federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence ninth-circuit precedent rule-23 standards-of-proof |
Whether the requirements for class certification under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23 can be satisfied with inadmissible evidence. |
| 18-8487 |
Kevin Neysmith v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-03-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment birchfield-precedent birchfield-v-north-dakota blood-alcohol blood-alcohol-content criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility fourth-amendment fruits-of-the-poisonous-tree o-connell-warnings o'connell-warnings search-warrant warrantless-search |
Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits State judicial systems from admitting evidence of blood alcohol content obtained without a search warrant pursu… |
| 18-8533 |
Lance Williams v. California |
California |
2019-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility habeas-corpus ineffective-appellate-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficiency-of-evidence intent invalid-illegal-strike perjury police-report prejudicial-1101(b)-evidence pro-se prosecutor-coercion prosecutorial-misconduct uncharged-act witness-credibility witness-description |
1. How can the state courts deny appeal on a issue of prejudicial 1101(B) evidence on a uncharged act used to prove intent where the police report of … |
| 18-8166 |
Bruce Dwayne Winston v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment carpenter-v-united-states cell-site-data evidence-admissibility pretextual-stop reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure terry-stop unlawful-search-and-seizure |
Did the District Court error in allowing evidence attained in an illegal Terry/Pretextural stop to be admitted into evidence in violation of the Petit… |
| 18-8111 |
Rossahn Black v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bullcoming confrontation confrontation-clause evidence-admissibility expert-witness forensic-evidence forensic-testimony melendez-diaz melendez-diaz-precedent ninth-circuit-interpretation sixth-amendment testimony |
I. Whether this Court's decision in Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts, 557 U.S. 305, 129 5.Ct. 2527 (2009) and Builcoming v. New Mexico, 5614 U.S. 647, 1… |
| 18-1054 |
Jason Allen Jackson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-02-12 |
Denied |
|
admissibility circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution drug-crimes drug-possession due-process evidence evidence-admissibility knowledge-intent prior-conviction prior-convictions |
Whether the mere fact of a prior drug possession conviction is admissible to show knowledge and intent in a subsequent drug distribution prosecution. |
| 18-1046 |
Virginia Callahan, et al. v. Pacific Cycle, Inc. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-court-split circuit-split civil-procedure de-novo-review evidence evidence-admissibility evidentiary-ruling hearsay hearsay-evidence judicial-discretion standard-of-review |
When reviewing a district court's ruling to admit hearsay into evidence, should the Court of Appeals apply an abuse of discretion standard or engage i… |
| 18-7719 |
Cesar Gomez v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-02-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment-rights standing texas-penal-code |
Whether Texas Penal Code ' 21.02, is Constitutional under the
Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendment of the United States
Constitution?
Whether a Sta… |
| 18-7505 |
Demian Pina v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
confrontation-clause daubert due-process ecpa ecpa-violation electronic-surveillance evidence-admissibility fourth-amendment kyllo search-and-seizure speedy-trial |
Does the use of computer/internet surveillance technology, not available to the general public, to intrude into a home or curtilage (KYLLO) without pr… |
| 18-7291 |
Dillon Wade Thompson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure deliberation digital-cameras due-process evidence evidence-admissibility judicial-discretion jury jury-deliberations lewd-exhibition prosecutorial-misconduct trial |
Is it a violation of a defendant's Due Process rights if, while deliberating, the fact-finder viewed evidence that was not shown at trial, even if sai… |
| 18-820 |
Teresa Y. Weinacker v. National Loan Acquisitions Company |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation court-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence legal-precedent plausibility-standard standing subject-matter-jurisdiction twombly-iqbal |
Whether lower courts can blatantly disregard U.S. Supreme Court, Eleventh Circuit and sister circuit precedent law, ignore landmark cases, disrespect … |
| 18-675 |
Lisa M. West v. Missouri |
Missouri |
2018-11-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse-of-discretion admissibility conviction-and-sentence criminal-appeal daubert-review daubert-standard evidence-admissibility expert-witness judicial-review missouri-law scientific-testimony standard-of-review trial-court-discretion |
1. Whether this court should require a de nova review of the trial court's handling of scientific testimony to determine whether Daubert v. Merrell Do… |
| 18-6791 |
Benjamin Bland v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-11-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination evidence evidence-admissibility government-evidence harmless-error hearsay sixth-amendment social-security-administration trial-procedure |
Whether petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to confront witnesses against him was violated where a spreadsheet (Government's Exhibit MD-313) created by… |
| 18-574 |
Joseph Rachal v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-11-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
6th-amendment bifurcated-trial bifurcation criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility felon-in-possession felony-conviction firearm-possession jury-instructions jury-prejudice prejudice prejudicial-evidence |
No one can legitimately deny that a felony conviction is exceedingly prejudicial. That is why evidence of a felony conviction is normally admissible o… |
| 18-6151 |
Claude Thelemaque v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
burden-of-proof cocaine-distribution conspiracy criminal-law criminal-law-procedure drug-trafficking due-process evidence evidence-admissibility jurisdiction standard-of-proof witness-testimony |
Whether the government failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Thelemaque conspired to distribute cocaine with knowledge that it would be impor… |
| 18-5726 |
Ruben Cazares v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-08-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
accomplice-statements bruton-error bruton-evidence bruton-v-united-states confrontation-clause crawford crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility harmless-error prejudice prejudicial-evidence separate-trials special-prejudice trial-procedure |
Fifty years ago, this Court began the Bruton era by making two points perfectly clear. One, Bruton evidence is "devastating" to the accused. Bruton v.… |
| 18-5646 |
Syrus Martin v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2018-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-hearsay child-testimony cross-examination evidence evidence-admissibility evidence-law hearsay hearsay-evidence hearsay-exceptions prior-statements statutory-interpretation testifying-witness witness-statements |
Whether Georgia's child hearsay statutes or O.C.G.A. § 24-8-801 (d) (1) (A) control the permissible use of the prior statements of a testifying child. |
| 18-5366 |
Ronald David Martin v. Tony Trierweiler, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-07-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appeal confrontation-clause criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-introduce-evidence rape-shield-statute right-to-present-defense trial-court-discretion |
WHETHER PETTTIONER WAS DEPRIVED OF HIS RIGHT TO CONFRONT WITNESSES, HIS RIGHT TO PRESENT A DEFENSE, AND HIS RIGHT TO THE EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNS… |
| 18-5286 |
Odere Suleitopa v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-conflict circuit-split civil-procedure evidence evidence-admissibility federal-rule-of-evidence-701 federal-rules-of-evidence law-enforcement law-enforcement-officer-testimony law-enforcement-testimony lay-witness-testimony opinion-testimony personal-knowledge personal-knowledge-requirement witness-testimony |
Federal Rule of Evidence 701 states that a lay witness's opinion testimony must be rationally based on the witness's perception. The Circuits have lon… |
| 18-5253 |
Dennis DeCiancio v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-07-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure disclosure-duty due-process duty-to-disclose evidence evidence-admissibility federal-rules-of-evidence free-speech materiality prior-convictions rule-10b-5 securities securities-fraud |
Whether evidence of unrelated prior convictions is admissible in securities fraud cases as direct proof of a fraud under Rule 10b-5, even though there… |