evidence-rules

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25-573 Donald J. Trump, President of the United States v. E. Jean Carroll Second Circuit 2025-11-13 Pending Amici (5) evidence-rules propensity-evidence rule-403 rule-404b rule-413 rule-415 I. Whether Federal Rule of Evidence 415 overrides Rule 403's requirement to balance the probative value of temporally remote propensity evidence again…
25-5249 Barry Gordon Croft, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-07-31 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-right entrapment-defense evidence-rules fifth-amendment harmless-error sixth-amendment 1. Did the district court deny Petitioner's constitutional right to present a defense, and thereby commit a trial error of constitutional dimension, w…
24-7018 Roderick King v. United States Third Circuit 2025-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence-rules rule-16 sixth-amendment trial-rights I."Whether The Goverment And The Panel Violates Petitioner's Due Process By Waiving His Direct Appeal Arguments By Purposefully Misstating His Argumen…
24A489 Bernice Rutland v. Regions Bank, as Trustee for the William Hunter Rutland Family Trust Mississippi 2024-11-15 Presumed Complete divorce-decree evidence-rules judicial-notice property-settlement summary-judgment trust-interpretation Question not identified.
24-5256 Michael Darren Boydston v. Texas Texas 2024-08-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-provisions court-procedure evidence-rules judicial-review legal-jurisdiction statutory-provisions Question not identified.
23-1043 Amir Anariba v. California California 2024-03-21 Denied Response Waived arbitrary-rules compulsory-process criminal-defense due-process evidence-rules holmes-v-south-carolina right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment subpoena-duces-tecum united-states-v-nixon The Constitution guarantees criminal defendants a meaningful opportunity to present a complete defense. This right is abridged by evidence rules that …
23-6685 Willie Perry Woods v. Heather Ray, Warden Fourth Circuit 2024-02-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-rights consent-decree constitutional-rights due-process evidence-rules federal-agency state-law statute-of-limitations 1. Should certiorari be granted if the 4th USCA judgment conflicts with USSC on whether state Statute Of Limitations (SOL) bars Fed agency adverse pun…
23-640 Caleb A. C. Smith v. United States Armed Forces 2023-12-14 Denied Response Waived 10th-circuit declarant-memory evidence-rule evidence-rules excited-utterance hearsay-exception memory military-rules-of-evidence statement-admissibility testimonial-evidence unpublished-decision Whether a statement, made hours after an alleged assault that the declarant has no memory of, is admissible as an excited utterance?
23-5983 Eric Spencer v. United States Second Circuit 2023-11-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review court-procedure de-novo-review district-court evidence evidence-rules 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…
22-6999 Allen Maki v. Texas Texas 2023-03-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence-rules judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction motion-in-limine second-amendment statutory-interpretation texas-criminal-law Whether there is a conflict between Tex Criminal Code Art. 44.17 And Tex Gov. Code Sec. 30.00015 (a).(1) (2) Whether it fair to regard Maki 's gentle…
22-6820 Sergio Moises Ochoa v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2023-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review compel-witnesses constitutional-interpretation due-process enumerated-rights evidence-rules fundamental-rights judicial-discretion present-defense rules-of-evidence The rights to compel favorable witnesses and present a defense are fundamental to our system of justice, and predate our constitution. Yet these right…
22-769 Weixing V. Wang v. Brandywyne Common Condominium New Hampshire 2023-02-16 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process evidence-rules federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-misconduct standing summary-judgment 1. Solely with the lies and fabricated numbers on paper, without even one evidence, how can Petitioner be ordered to pay $47,319.86? 2. In a civil ca…
22-6535 Murphy Alex Begay v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment audio-recording civil-procedure constitutional district-court due-process evidence-rules federal-rules-of-evidence rule-106 rule-of-completeness Did the District court violate the Petitioners 14th Amendment right of the Due Process Clause, by denying the introduction of the complete audio recor…
22-5054 Tyrik Upchurch v. United States Third Circuit 2022-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review due-process evidence-rules expert-testimony expert-witness-testimony judicial-procedure judicial-proceedings lay-witness-testimony new-trial standard-of-review third-circuit trial-error Did the Court of Appeal s for the Thi rd Ci rcuit so far depart from the accepted and usual course of judi cial proceedi ngs, or sancti oned such a de…
22-5055 Amin Wadley, aka Jamil Abdul Amin White v. United States Third Circuit 2022-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-trial-procedure evidence-rules evidentiary-standards federal-rules-of-evidence law-enforcement law-enforcement-testimony lay-witness lay-witness-testimony opinion-evidence opinion-testimony 1. Whether this Court should set limits on what law enforcement testimony should be admitted as opinion evidence under Federal Rule of Evidence 701.
21-1320 Robert Campo, et al. v. Department of Justice, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-04-04 Denied Response Waived constitutional-precedent court-interpretation evidence-rules federal-rules-of-evidence federal-rules-of-procedure freedom-of-information-act judicial-discretion judicial-review procedural-rules supreme-court-precedent u.s-constitution Whether, in adjudications under the Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA"), federal judges are free to flout and knowingly violate FOIA, federal rules of…
21-7440 Norman Alan Kerr v. Christopher Gomez, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-03-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure document-suppression due-process evidence-rules government-misconduct judicial-discretion plea-bargaining sentencing trial-procedure Question not identified.
21-7380 Frank Henderson Brown v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-03-15 Denied IFP appeal civil-rights closing-arguments due-process evidence-rules ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct standing trial-court-error A. Total Court erred B) By allowing veto AHO frsSecoriwl te argue FeetS nor mM ey LAence . B. the Prosewre erved 6). by agus fattS not (na evidence …
21-6340 Troy Wayne Harmon v. Texas Texas 2021-11-19 Denied IFP constitutional-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure evidence evidence-rules fourteenth-amendment inconsistent-opinion informant-privilege material-witness sixth-amendment 1. The trial court refused to allow Petitioner to call a material witness that could significantly aid in his defense -and complied with the Rules O…
20-6761 Wayne Wells, Jr. v. Terrie Wallace, Warden Fourth Circuit 2021-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP age-of-consent civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence-rules sentencing statutory-interpretation trial-procedure witness-testimony Does Module Code Ann. § 16-3-1055 (B)(c) has a constitutional requirement that a trial court must rule on the defendant's motion to suppress evidence …
20-5328 Jeffrey Paul Giblin v. Washington Washington 2020-08-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence-rules eyewitness-testimony intent intent-standard lay-opinion-testimony A h FourteenAmenden Contittinauarnts of "Due Proces ofLaw and"equal protection of the laws" duly satistied for a Defendant accused of a crime involvin…
20-5115 Gerson Serrano-Ramirez v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process evidence evidence-rules federal-procedure gang-affiliation jury-instructions motion-to-sever sufficiency-of-evidence venue Mr. Gerson Serrano-Ramirez was tried and convicted on in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. Prior to and during tr…
19-8373 Frank Silva Roque v. Arizona Arizona 2020-04-29 Denied IFP appeals appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-rules federal-law habeas-corpus standing Did ARIZONA COURT UOTE TW COURTS DETSION A) TONs adv. Mississipei By ENTELUNG QUDENCE oF A 1483. PRAGL CORVICNOI TAT. WAS SEF-ASIDE, DISMISSED. LAs Th…
19-1236 Rachel Joanna Evens v. Timothy John Evens South Dakota 2020-04-20 Denied Response Waived terminating visitation without any consideration child-custody civil-procedure due-process evidence evidence-rules hearsay judicial-authority parental-rights parenting-coordinator sanctions 1. What constitutes "Due Process of Law"? Can binding orders be implemented, terminating visitation without any consideration of evidence or a hearing…
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…
19-6000 Kevin Kelley v. Illinois Illinois 2019-09-20 Denied IFP compulsory-process constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-rules propensity-evidence sixth-amendment trial-court-error witness-testimony Whether the state trial court erred in admitting the testimony of two witnesses for the purpose of showing the defendant's propensity to commit the ch…
18-9600 Patricia Diane Smith Sledge v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process evidence-rules evidentiary-ruling federal-rules-of-evidence procedural-error sufficiency-of-evidence summary-evidence witness-tampering Did the district court prejudicially err when admitting Exhibit 1 as a summary pursuant to Fed Rules of Evidence, rule 1006? Was the evidence suffici…
18-9126 Alan L. Doering v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-05-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure-standing-due-process-medical-trea 8th-amendment administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-rules medical-records medical-treatment prison-conditions security-concerns standing Question not identified.
18-5653 Pamela Lynn Bravebull v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP cross-examination due-process evidence-rules expert-witness fair-trial federal-rules-of-evidence fifth-amendment sixth-amendment structural-error venireperson 1. Evidence upon which the jury may rely in convicting a defendant must come through qualified sworn witnesses, not through a colloquy with a venirepe…
18-5605 Robert S. Beyer, II v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-08-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP admissibility appellate-procedure bad-character-evidence character-evidence criminal-procedure de-novo-review due-process evidence-rules federal-rules-of-evidence presumption-of-admissibility rule-403 rule-404 sentencing-guidelines victim-vulnerability 1. Do Fed R. Evid. Rules 403 and 404 create a presumption favoring admissibility of bad character evidence? 2. May the United States Courts of Appeal…