| 25-919 |
Union Carbide Corporation, et al. v. Lee Ann Sommerville |
Fourth Circuit |
2026-02-04 |
Pending |
Amici (1) |
admissibility burden-of-proof evidentiary-standard expert-witness federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-circuit-split |
Whether, under Federal Rule of Evidence 702, challenges to the factual basis of an expert witness's testimony always go to the weight of the evidence … |
| 25-6331 |
Anthony Roland v. NBC Subsidiary (WMAQ-TV) LLC |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-12-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
complaint-interpretation due-process evidentiary-standard judicial-review privacy-violation video-evidence |
Whether the lower courts deprived the Petitioner of due process by failing to acknowledge or examine video evidence properly incorporated into the com… |
| 25-5983 |
Maurice Cruz-Webster v. Brian Emig, Warden, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-justice due-process evidentiary-standard police-testimony victim-declaration witness-statement |
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and u)kxx+ exVm-V aKe CnmmcU JaS-We System -holera-tes
9ol\ce o-Wcejro -te5+ vmon\a\ beVe-p's on … |
| 25-511 |
William Edward Williamson v. School Board of Chesapeake City, Virginia, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-10-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights evidentiary-standard fourth-circuit mcdonnell-douglas racial-discrimination summary-judgment |
1. Whether the Fourth Circuit's application of a heightened and unprecedented evidentiary standard for proving racial discrimination against an Asian … |
| 25-5540 |
Brayan Alexander Contreras-Avalos v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cooperator-testimony criminal-conviction evidentiary-standard prosecutorial-burden sufficiency-of-evidence witness-credibility |
1. Where the Government did not introduce any physical or forensic against Mr. Contreras-Avalos, and the only evidence introduced was cooperator testi… |
| 25-5215 |
Otoniel Cornejo v. California |
California |
2025-07-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-inference evidentiary-standard firearm-ability force-application legal-sufficiency substantial-evidence |
Does the record lack substantial evidence to support an inference that petitioner had the present ability to apply force with a firearm when that fire… |
| 24-879 |
James Timothy Norman v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-02-18 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
circuit-split evidentiary-standard federal-rule-evidence fifth-amendment state-of-mind-exception witness-testimony |
1. Given that the Eighth Circuit is the lone holdout in an 11-1 circuit split on the meaning of Federal Rule of Evidence 803(3), should the Eighth Cir… |
| 24-6340 |
Bruce E. Alexander v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-01-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
corroborating-circumstances criminal-procedure evidentiary-standard federal-rules-evidence hearsay-exception statement-against-interest |
Whether FRE 804(b)(3)(B) 's requirement that a court fin d "corrobo rating circumstances " that "clearly indicate [a statement 's] trustworthiness " r… |
| 24-6048 |
Cheryl Christin Kissentaner v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split diaz-precedent evidentiary-standard federal-evidence-rule judicial-review legal-interpretation |
Should this Court clarify its prior decision in Diaz v. United States, 144 S. Ct. 1727 (2024), to resolve the ongoing circuit split concerning the int… |
| 24-491 |
Bernice Rutland v. Robinson Property Group, L.L.C., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-10-31 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
conclusory-allegations evidentiary-standard federal-civil-procedure fifth-circuit stare-decisis summary-judgment |
1. Whether the Fifth Circuits ruling conflicts with this Court's ruling on case law and Summary Judgement, F.R.C.P. 56(a).
2. Whether a District Cour… |
| 24-5838 |
Joseph Boswell, Sr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split count-of-conviction evidentiary-standard spillover-prejudice trial-strategy |
When an appellate court vacates some, but not all, counts of conviction on appeal, what standard or test should the appellate court apply to determine… |
| 24-255 |
Darryl Scott Stinski v. Shawn Emmons, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-09-06 |
Denied |
Amici (5) |
deferential-review evidentiary-standard federal-habeas habeas-corpus state-court-record statutory-interpretation |
Whether the evidentiary standard in § 2254(e)(1) does not apply when a state prisoner seeks federal habeas relief solely on the state court evidentiar… |
| 24-225 |
B. S. v. D. S. |
California |
2024-08-29 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-rights domestic-violence-restraining-order due-process evidentiary-standard first-amendment fourteenth-amendment |
1. Does the preponderance of the evidence standard used for the issuance of a DVRO in California comply with the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantees of … |
| 23-1224 |
Laila N. Hirjee v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-deference appellate-review deference evidentiary-standard inferences jury-verdict medical-decision prosecutorial-discretion standard-of-review weak-evidence weak-inference |
I. What level of deference from an appellate court is appropriate to a jury's verdict, when the verdict is based entirely on weak inferences to be dra… |
| 23-6183 |
Steven Justin Villalona v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence appellate-court attorney-abandonment civil-procedure constitutional-claim evidentiary-standard federal-review habeas-corpus mandate-recall material-omissions procedural-default standing |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6120 |
Demecia Shontres Washington v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-11-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
character-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-standard expert-testimony jury-bias plain-error profile-evidence |
Whether the district court plainly erred by admitting expert testimony about the common characteristics of a particular type of offender, also known a… |
| 23-569 |
Rodney Reed v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-11-28 |
Denied |
Relisted (11) |
affirmative-evidence due-process evidentiary-standard gateway-innocence habeas-corpus innocence-claim judicial-review reasonable-doubt schlup-standard schlup-v-delo |
In the twenty-five years since Rodney Reed was convicted of murder and sentenced to death, a "considerable body of evidence" has accumulated that he i… |
| 23-408 |
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP v. Suzanne Ivie |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
affirmative-defense burden-of-proof civil-procedure claim evidentiary-standard final-pretrial-order judicial-process litigation-procedure pretrial-order rule-16 |
In a final pretrial order under Rule 16, may a party generally contest whether the opposing party will satisfy its burden of proof on a claim or affir… |
| 23-5020 |
Christopher Delgado v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure evidentiary-standard federal-rules-of-evidence inextricably-intertwined other-bad-acts rule-404(b) rule-404b standard |
Whether evidence of other bad acts is exempted from the limits and requirements of Rule 404(b) of the Federal Rules of Evidence when it is "inextricab… |
| 22-1112 |
Avail Vapor, LLC, et al. v. Food and Drug Administration |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-05-15 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Relisted (2) |
administrative-law administrative-procedure-act arbitrary-and-capricious evidence-standard evidentiary-standard fda fda-regulation marketing-authorization premarket-applications tobacco-product-regulation tobacco-products |
In 2016, FDA extended its jurisdiction over "tobacco
products" under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic
Act to electronic nicotine delivery system… |
| 22-1011 |
Tony Holt v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. |
Illinois |
2023-04-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment appellate-court circuit-split civil-rights due-process evidentiary-standard illinois-v-gates judicial-precedent probable-cause standing |
Does the Appellate Court's bright-line rule on probable cause, which presumes that information from a purported victim is inherently reliable, violate… |
| 22-6857 |
Cynthia J. Rowe v. Penny J. Roberts, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-02-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights crime-scene criminal-procedure defendant-presence documentary-evidence due-process equal-protection evidentiary-standard jurisdiction standing supreme-court-review |
Question not identified. |
| 22-5924 |
Carl Jones v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2022-10-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-law constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-standard legal-sufficiency self-defense standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
I. Does the well-settled standard and scope of review governing sufficiency-of-the-evidence claims - a standard and scope of constitutional dimension … |
| 22-271 |
M. N. v. A. A., et al. |
Kentucky |
2022-09-22 |
Denied |
|
abandonment dobbs-precedent dobbs-v-jackson due-process evidentiary-standard fourteenth-amendment kentucky parental-rights vagueness |
(1) whether K Y. REV. STAT. ANN. § 199.502 violates the Fourt eenth Amendment's Due Process Clause because it fails to articulate a clear and convinci… |
| 22-5622 |
Todd Matthew Phillips v. Amber Phillips, nka Amber Korpark |
Nevada |
2022-09-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process evidentiary-standard family-court family-law parental-rights standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
In the midst of a routine divorce saga, Wife alleged that Husband, during the marriage, had committed violent crimes against her. But Wife never conta… |
| 22-40 |
Isiah Dozier v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-07-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-usc-1791 criminal-defendant criminal-defense evidentiary-standard knowledge-requirement prohibited-object rock-v-arkansas rock-v-armenia sixth-amendment witness-testimony |
The questions presented for the Supreme Court concern the Constitutional right of a Criminal Defendant to call a witness in his own defense at trial a… |
| 21-8128 |
Duane Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause confrontation-right criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-standard mandatory-conditions revocation-hearing standard-conditions supervised-release witness-testimony |
Whether the district court erred by revoking Mr. Williams' supervised release status, and returning him to prison. This overall issue consists of the … |
| 21-1417 |
Vaughn Hoeflin Standley v. Department of Energy |
Federal Circuit |
2022-05-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-deference agency-interpretation congressional-budget congressional-oversight evidence evidentiary-standard legislative-intent statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Should not an agency's Congressional budget justifications be considered compelling evidence of the agency's belief? |
| 21-6679 |
Juan Jarmon v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court-conflict conspiracy conspiracy-law crack-cocaine criminal-law evidence evidentiary-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review united-states-v-pressler |
Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals entered a decision in conflict with the decision of United States v. Pressler where the evidence presented … |
| 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… |
| 21-5559 |
Selvin Leonell Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment commerce-clause criminal-procedure criminal-statute evidence evidentiary-standard federal-law firearm-possession interstate-commerce jurisdictional-element mens-rea |
Whether possession of a firearm is "in or affecting commerce" when there is no evidence that the defendant moved the firearm across state lines or tha… |
| 20-8162 |
Bralen Lamar Jordan v. C. Rivers, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-05-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
admissibility circuit-split civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process evidentiary-standard judicial-review legal-interpretation medical-malpractice medical-records pharmacy-records procedural-challenge |
WHAT IS MEDICAL MALPRACTICE WITH EVIL INTENT DF CEOEL AND PONISH MENT AS TO DELIbELATE INDI FFERENCE?
ALSO WHAT IS IMMINENT DANGER? |
| 20-7905 |
Christopher K. Skagen v. Oregon State Bar |
Oregon |
2021-05-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
client-privacy constitutional-rights due-process evidence-standard evidentiary-standard lawyer-discipline procedural-due-process substantive-due-process |
1. For a judgment to be enforced, the originating statute must not just
state 'judgment, ' as in BR 3.5(a) but it must also state 'and a court of a
fo… |
| 20-7774 |
Kevin Johnson v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-04-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights confrontation-clause criminal-procedure double-standard due-process evidentiary-standard expert-testimony forensic-evidence ineffective-assistance post-conviction |
Did the trial an%or appeal court err by allowing the testisying "erperts" to
use statements of unadijucated witnesses as bisis for their opinion and
p… |
| 20-7697 |
Matthew Berckmann v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence-rule evidence-rule-404(b) evidentiary-standard federal-rules-of-evidence motive-opportunity-intent propensity-evidence rule-404b same-victim victim-testimony |
Whether other act evidence under Rule 404(b) that involves the
same "victim" (alcoholic husband and wife who fight after drinking too much) is
automat… |
| 20-1104 |
Irina Tesoriero v. Carnival Corporation, dba Carnival Cruise Line |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-02-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
adverse-inference circuit-split civil-procedure discovery evidence evidentiary-standard federal-courts legal-sanction sanctions spoliation spoliation-of-evidence |
Whether federal courts may grant an adverse inference as a sanction for negligent spoliation of evidence, as the Second, Sixth, and D.C. Circuits have… |
| 20-6039 |
Earl McBride v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-15 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
due-process due-process-clause equitable-tolling evidentiary-standard habeas-corpus habeas-petition parole parole-board postal-service-form procedural-grounds |
Does United States Postal Service Form 3811 Domestic Certified Returned Receipts demonstrating properly and timely filing of State and Federal Habeas … |
| 20-5496 |
Santosh Ram v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-08-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 actual-innocence constitutional-claim constitutional-violations evidentiary-standard judicial-review lower-court-analysis mcquiggin-v-perkins post-conviction-relief procedural-due-process schup-v-delo |
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… |
| 19-1383 |
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… |
| 19-8031 |
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… |
| 19-1088 |
Gerson Irving Fox v. Elissa Miller, Chapter 7 Trustee |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-05 |
Denied |
|
admissible-evidence bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-code-section-727(a)(3) civil-procedure competent-evidence debtor-discharge discharge evidentiary-standard judicial-discretion recordkeeping recordkeeping-requirements summary-judgment |
Upon proof of failure to keep adequate books and records, a debtor's discharge may be withheld under section 727(a)(3) of the Bankruptcy Code unless t… |
| 19-7620 |
Bradley Campbell v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-standard federal-jurisdiction interstate-commerce judgment-of-acquittal kidnapping motion-for-acquittal motion-to-dismiss |
Where there was no evidence that Petitioner used an instrumentality of interstate commerce in furtherance of a kidnapping, whether Petitioner's motion… |
| 19-7312 |
In Re Mo Savoy Hicks |
|
2020-01-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence criminal-procedure discarded-evidence due-process evidentiary-standard exculpatory-evidence forensic-fraud fundamental-injustice habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review perjured-testimony post-conviction-relief state-court-proceedings |
New evidence establishes Petitioner's actual innocence and his continued incarceration is fundamentally unjust. |
| 19-7096 |
David Lee Smith v. Rick Jackson |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights criminal-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-standard fingerprint fingerprint-analysis jury jury-confusion probable-cause standing wrongful-conviction |
ARE 92954 PETITLONER(S\ ENTITLLEA TO REAAAND, INILTH
INSTRUCTIONS FOR AISTRICT COURT TQ ORDER CASE
ATSMISSED AITTH PREAUDICERECAUSE OF PROSEC.UTIPS
ON… |
| 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… |
| 19-276 |
Jose Luis Garza, et al. v. City of Donna, Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-30 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights detainee-mistreatment due-process episodic-act-or-omission evidentiary-standard fact-question free-speech legal-interpretation municipal-liability municipal-policy qualified-immunity section-1983 summary-judgment |
Did the panel err - in the summary judgment context in determining as a matter of law, on the basis of no articulated evidence or authority, that the … |
| 19-5048 |
Mark Anthony Dolph v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure custody custody-determination due-process evidentiary-standard interrogation legal-procedure miranda-warnings officer-testimony video-evidence |
Custody: 1.why des reasne opinions of jurist thoughout the federal system demonstrate that frirminded jurist can disagree As to whether the use of han… |
| 18-9132 |
Earlie Dickerson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-standard federal-rule-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure government-witness government-witnesses motion-for-new-trial newly-discovered-evidence perjury trial-motion witness-credibility witness-testimony |
Question One: Whether new evidence that Government witnesses provided
untruthful statements during a trial can ever satisfy the requirements for a mot… |
| 18-9110 |
Darius T. Murphy v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2019-05-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-standard legal-claim misidentification totality-of-circumstances |
WHAT SPECTRUM OF EVIDENCE IS REQUIRED TO PROVE ACTUAL INNOCENCE CLAIM?
WHAT CONSIDERATION IS GIVEN TO A MISIDENTIFICATION IN AN ACTUAL INNOCENCE CLAI… |
| 18-8404 |
Adrian Laroy Seymore v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process evidence evidentiary-standard government-evidence presentence-investigation-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Whether a District Court erred in applying a guideline enhancement based solely on allegations contained in the Presentence Investigation Report after… |
| 18-8372 |
Dominique Green v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-03-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellant-rights civil-procedure civil-rights court-determination due-process evidence evidentiary-standard fact fact-and-law informal-marriage legal-sufficiency marriage marriage-evidence standing |
Did the Court of Appeals err when it determined and held that there was legally insufficient evidence to establish an informal marriage between Appell… |
| 18-1049 |
Peter M. Hoffman, et al. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-11 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
criminal-law-fraud criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-acquittal criminal-procedure-burden-of-proof criminal-procedure-sufficiency-of-evidence due-process evidence evidentiary-standard jackson-v-virginia judgment-of-acquittal mail-fraud prosecutorial-burden regulatory-ambiguity standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence wire-fraud |
1. Whether a federal court must grant a motion for
judgment of acquittal when, construing the evidence
in the light most favorable to the government, … |
| 18-7464 |
Carlton E. Gary v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
competency-hearing criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-standard expert-testimony expert-witness fundamental-error judicial-error prejudice violation witness-credibility witness-influence |
I). Dr. Merin, had not made contact with a witness to the Criminal charges. The Credibility of her report would have been considered proper.
2). Can … |
| 18-5916 |
Juan Flores v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-09-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
admissibility casual-conversation co-conspirator co-conspirator-statement co-conspirator-statements conspiracy conspiracy-evidence criminal-procedure evidence evidentiary-standard federal-rule-of-evidence federal-rules-of-evidence furtherance-of-conspiracy hearsay-exception |
Whether the District Court and Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred when it ruled that a statement made during a casual conversation between co-consp… |
| 18-5479 |
Tadareous Jackson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
attorney-performance due-process evidentiary-hearing evidentiary-standard federal-court-review findings-of-fact habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-deference legal-findings procedural-fairness state-court-findings state-court-proceedings trial-court-duty |
1) When a State Trial Court neglects it's duty to make findings after controverted and unresloved issues have been shown, is it resonable when conside… |
| 18-5242 |
Kenneth Martin, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof co-conspirator co-conspirator-testimony corroboration corroboration-requirement criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-standard fifth-circuit-law plea-bargain sentencing testimony witness-credibility |
Whether the Fifth Circuit's law that allows a conviction based solely
on the uncorroborated testimony of a co-conspirator should be abandoned, or at
l… |