eyewitness-identification

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24-1127 Thomas E. Clardy v. Kenneth Nelsen, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-05-02 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony eyewitness-identification ineffective-assistance strickland-standard In a case that hinges primarily on eyewitness identification, does a criminal defense attorney perform deficiently under Strickland v. Washington, 466…
24-421 Cynthia Davis, Warden v. David M. Smith Sixth Circuit 2024-10-15 Denied Relisted (3) aedpa constitutional-violation due-process eyewitness-identification habeas-corpus sixth-circuit The Due Process Clause requires exclusion of police-initiated eyewitness identification testimony in exceedingly rare cases. Exclusion of such evidenc…
24-5145 Antonio Tyree Gaskin v. Kentucky Kentucky 2024-07-25 Denied IFP 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification law-enforcement legal-representation lineup procedural-safeguards right-to-counsel suspect-rights Whether the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution have guaranteed protection that safeguard law in enforcement showing in single paragraph a suspect…
23-7298 Jonathan Wayne Daniels v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process eyewitness-identification hobbs-act-robbery jury-instruction jury-instructions suggestive-identification suggestive-procedure third-circuit Whether petitioner's jury was adequately "warn[ed] to take care in appraising identification evidence," in accordance with due process, where his jury…
22-6987 Dennis J. Brookshire v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2023-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel out-of-court-identification post-conviction-review WAS TRIAL COUNSEL INEFFECTIVE FOR FAILING TO MOVE TO SUPRESS THE OUT OF COURT IDENTIFICATIONS AND DID SUCH IDENTIFICATIONS DENY THE PETITIONER A FAIR …
22-6801 DeSean Alexander Bruce v. Arizona Arizona 2023-02-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP alibi-evidence due-process eyewitness-identification eyewitness-testimony fair-appeal fair-postconviction-proceedings fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct trial-fairness FIRST : Was Petitioner denied due process, a fair trial, a fair appeal, and fair post conviction proceedings, due to the following circumstances: 1. …
22-6491 Eric Romero-Lobato v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-error due-process eyewitness-identification gatekeeping gatekeeping-function harmless-error law-enforcement reliability reliability-standard suggestive-identification Due process prohibits any "suggestive and unnecessary identification procedure" that does not possess "sufficient aspects of reliability." Manson v. B…
22-6453 Mario Torres v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2023-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification habeas-corpus plea-agreement plea-bargain post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel sentencing reneged on the plea bargain. Whether the District Court is bound by the original plea-agreement. Petitioner was resentenced. Whether a restitution h…
22-589 Daryl Holloway v. City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-12-27 Denied circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification identification-procedure law-enforcement lineup qualified-immunity 1. Whether the Court should address ambiguity among the circuits on whether an unduly suggestive identification procedure violated the Due Process Cla…
22-5749 Justin Jamal Warner v. South Carolina South Carolina 2022-10-04 Dismissed IFP criminal-defendant-rights criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification in-camera-hearing law-enforcement-procedure out-of-court-identification police-misconduct reliability-standard surveillance-video unreliable-evidence video-identification Whether a criminal defendant is entitled to an in camera hearing pursuant to Neil v. Biggers, 408 U.S. 188 (1972) on the reliability of an out-of-cour…
21-7150 Michael Cameron v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-02-17 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification misidentification right-to-defense right-to-present-defense showup-lineup suggestive-lineup witness-identification The police conducted a showup lineup with Cameron and four witnesses without justification. The unduly suggestive showup lineups were never corroborat…
21-6836 Daniel Locus v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2022-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP credibility criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification federal-courts judicial-review state-court-review state-courts wrongful-conviction wrongful-convictions 1. Did the District Court's ruling consistent with the holdings in Neil v. Biqqers , 2243 (1977)?423 U.S. 98, 114, 53 L.Ed.2d 140, 97 S. Ct. 2. If t…
21-6702 Oscar Porter v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2021-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 alibi-witness alibi-witnesses criminal-trial eyewitness-identification eyewitness-testimony habeas-corpus identification ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment 1. Is the Sixth Amendment violated when trial counsel pre-judges and excludes close friends and family from testifying as alibi witnesses without inve…
21-5582 Marlon Darrel Evans v. Amy Miller, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-09-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-review due-process eyewitness-identification habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ninth-circuit strickland-standard strickland-v-washington The question presented is whether the state court unreasonably applied this Court's precedents when it concluded that Evans's trial counsel was not co…
21-5282 Tyrius Green v. Andrew J. Bruck, Acting Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2021-08-03 Denied IFP due-process eyewitness-identification jury-instructions reasonable-doubt structural-error sullivan-v-united-states trial-by-jury trial-procedure witness-identification Tyrius Green was convicted of murder based solely upon witness identification testimony as there was no physical evidence presented at his trial that …
21-151 Feanyichi Ezekwesi Uvukansi v. Texas Texas 2021-08-03 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (16) brady-violation burden-of-proof due-process eyewitness-identification false-testimony habeas-corpus materiality materiality-standard prosecutorial-misconduct Petitioner was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to life without parole based on the identification testimony of a single eyewitness who was t…
20-7249 Derrick Miles v. Illinois Illinois 2021-02-25 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment criminal-appeal due-process eyewitness-identification fair-trial fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment trial-procedure witness-identification 1). Whether the State of Illinois Appellate Court ruling denying petitioner's claim, where his murder conviction must be reversed, where his convictio…
20-6799 Kosoul Chanthakoummane v. Texas Texas 2021-01-08 Denied IFP bitemark-identification criminal-procedure dna-analysis dna-evidence due-process expert-testimony eyewitness-identification eyewitness-testimony forensic-evidence scientific-evidence trial-fairness Is Petitioner's conviction the product of a fundamentally unfair trial that was prejudiced by the admissibility of flawed forensic scientific evidence…
20-6037 David Williard v. Illinois Illinois 2020-10-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-Amendment 5th-Amendment 6th-Amendment Alibi-Witnesses constitutional-rights Due-Process Eyewitness-Identification ineffective-assistance reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment I. Appellate Court erred in denying Petitioner's Ineffective Assistance of Counsel claim. Where prejudice was established, in the trial courts finding…
20-5923 Charles Don Flores v. Texas Texas 2020-10-06 Denied Amici (2)IFP constitutional-fairness death-penalty due-process eyewitness-identification fair-trial hypnosis investigative-hypnosis law-enforcement-procedure police-investigation In Rock v. Arkansas, 483 U.S. 44 (1987), this Court found that, although "hypnotically refreshed" testimony was "controversial," the dangers associate…
20-5742 David Tachay Heard v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-09-17 Denied Relisted (3)IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure cross-racial-identification due-process eyewitness-identification federal-standard jury-instruction jury-instructions plain-error standard-of-review 1. Should federal district courts be required to give a cautionary jury instruction, upon a defendant's request, to guide the jury's evaluation of eye…
20-232 Robert Anderson v. Teri Kennedy Seventh Circuit 2020-08-27 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived constitutional-rights due-process evidence-exclusion expert-testimony eyewitness-identification holmes-precedent holmes-v-south-carolina state-rule Whether this Court's decision in Holmes v. South Carolina, 547 U.S. 319 (2006), clearly establishes that a defendant's due process right to present ev…
20-5261 Michael Fred Houston v. Texas Texas 2020-08-05 Denied IFP court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification identification-testimony motion-to-suppress reliability-standard suggestive-identification suggestive-procedure totality-of-circumstances witness-reliability 1) Does under the totality of the circumstance, is the in-court identification reliable even though the confrontation procedure was suggestive? 2) Di…
20-5010 Danny Lee Warner, Jr. v. Montana Montana 2020-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-client-privilege due-process evidentiary-hearing eyewitness-identification fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment 1. Petitioner filed a timely Motion for that prosecutors listened to privileged phone call's before trial .trial after discovering new and during The …
19-7651 Craig Keyon White v. Robert Fox, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process eyewitness-identification ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment (1) Whether the unduly suggestive pretrial identification procedure and resulting unreliable identifications admitted against White at his criminal tr…
19-7149 Guillermo Herrera v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-01-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP admissibility circuit-split daubert-standard daubert-v-merrell-dow expert-testimony eyewitness-identification federal-rules-of-evidence jury-instructions scientific-evidence In Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, 509 U.S. 579 (1993), this Court held that Fed. R. Evid. 702 superseded the common law rule governing the ad…
19-7133 Angel Noel Guevara v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-12-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland cross-examination due-process expert-testimony eyewitness-identification eyewitness-testimony independent-evidence police-lineup rule-403 sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-present-defense 1. Whether excluding expert testimony on eyewitness memory and police lineup procedures violates the Sixth Amendment right to present a defense, or co…
19-7109 J'Veil Outing v. Miguel A. Cardona, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction Connecticut 2019-12-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-record due-process expert-testimony eyewitness-identification eyewitness-testimony ineffective-assistance precedent right-to-counsel sixth-amendment I. WHETHER ASSIGNED COUNSEL VIOLATED THE DEFENDANT'S SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO COUNSEL AND HIS RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS BY FAILING TO PRESERVE FOR APPEAL A…
19-6945 Kevin Dameron v. Illinois Illinois 2019-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-law civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence eyewitness-identification judicial-review legal-error neil-v-biggers standing state-court-interpretation state-court-review supreme-court-precedent WHETHER THE ILLINOIS STATE COURT ERRED IN ITS APPLICATION OF WELL ESTABLISHED UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT PRECEDENT DECLARED IN NEIL v. BIGGERS, 409 U…
19-6924 William D. Thomas v. Mark McCullick, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-12-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP bail civil-procedure confrontation confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification identification indictment officer-activity police-conduct preliminary-hearing warrant-inquiry whether a state's failure to meet the reciprocal r a one on one Confrontation during a preliminary hearng tanted by prior police activity is Sufficient to warrant a Caurt's reliability inquiry. II. Wh…
19-6515 Andre Verlin Anderson v. Vicki Janssen, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-due-process-eyewitness-identifi criminal-procedure-habeas-corpus-certificate-of-ap Did the district court commit reversible error whe Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Eig due-process eyewitness-identification habeas-corpus motion-to-suppress photographic-lineup reversible-error QUESTION ONE: Did the district court commit reversible error by denying Petitioner's motion to suppress the unduly suggestive photographic lineup? QU…
19-6110 Abimael Ayala-Gonzalez v. New York New York 2019-10-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review brady-violation constitutional-duty criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification federal-claim ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel meaningful-representation-standard performance-prejudice-test prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment state-appellate-court strickland-standard strickland-v-washington During voir dire, my trial counsel repeatedly referred to me as a drug dealer, supplying the prosecution with a motive that would never have survived …
19-6071 Demetrius Desean Morgan v. Michigan Michigan 2019-09-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification first-amendment fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-association impartial-jury ineffective-assistance insufficient-evidence physical-characteristics reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment surveillance-video video-surveillance 1. Was the evidence of Petitioner's identity as the shooter sufficient to sustain the first-degree murder conviction where that evidence consisted of …
19-5769 Daniel J. Whitt v. Michele Buckner, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-08-30 Denied IFP burden-of-proof due-process expert-testimony eyewitness-identification ineffective-assistance-of-counsel line-up-procedure lineup-procedures police-procedure trial-strategy DID TRIAL ATTORNEY PRE-TRIAL ZEEE CVE 1E HE TARAUEN 11S onl Me LIGENGE. BY WAITING 720 Lott, FAILED 70 SECURE AN EXPERT WITNESS ON LINE-UP TbéAr7 ~Fic…
19-5334 Martel Valencia-Cortez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-07-25 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence eyewitness-identification jury-instruction jury-instructions reliability-factors standing trial-error trial-procedure witness-identification Whether a district court commits error in a federal criminal case by failing to provide a specific eyewitness identification instruction, which requir…
19-75 James Joseph Garner v. Colorado Colorado 2019-07-15 Denied Amici (2) criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification police-misconduct standing suggestive-identification suggestive-setting trial-procedure witness-testimony Whether the Due Process Clause imposes any check on an eyewitness's identification of a criminal defendant in the typically suggestive setting of tria…
19-5153 Christopher B. Ramirez v. Washington Washington 2019-07-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravating-circumstance criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification identification-procedure jury-instructions notice photographic-array police-misconduct sixth-amendment suggestive-circumstances suggestive-identification 1. In Perry v. New Hampshire , 565 U.S. 228, 232 (2012) the Court held the Fourteenth Amendment right to due process requires exclusion from trial an …
18-9695 Robert A. Wagner v. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Ninth Circuit 2019-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process effective-representation expert-testimony eyewitness-identification habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance miller-el-standard miller-el-v-cockrell reasonable-probability trial-outcome Whether the Ninth Circuit's ruling denying a certificate of appealability conflicts with the "debatable" standard from Miller-El u. Cockrell, 537 U.S.…
18-8106 Benjamin Crump v. Delaware Delaware 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification false-testimony fourteenth-amendment wrongful-conviction Whether a conviction obtained through the use of false evidence by a material state witness - the only state witness to reliably identify the defendan…
18-8033 Luis Alberto Montalvo Borgos v. Sean Medeiros, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk First Circuit 2019-02-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure drug-dealer due-process eyewitness-identification identification-procedure miscarriage-of-justice plain-error Prosecutor-elicited-testimony-about-witness-fear,c Prosecutor-stated-petitioner-was-known-drug-dealer prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony ISSUE #1: THE IDENTIFICATION OF THE PETITIONER WAS UNREASONABLY SUGGESTIVE CAUSING PLAIN ERROR PP. 5-12 ISSUE 42: THERE WAS PLAIN ERROR WHEN THE PROS…
18-7873 Troy Sierra v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-11 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification fair-trial false-testimony ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel right-to-counsel rights-advisement sixth-amendment Why did the U.S. government allow Del. Deluca to arrest and detain Petitioner at the Orlando County Jail on December 30. 2007 without counsel? Why was…
18-6656 Timothy Kyle Prince v. Shane Jackson, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-11-13 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process eyewitness-identification fair-trial fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment suggestive-identification suggestive-procedures unreliable-identification witness-identification WHETHER PETITIONER WAS DENIED OF HIS SIXTH AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS TO A FAIR TRIAL, DUE PROCESS, WHERE BOTH GREGORY AND BRENDA RUSHLOW'S IN-CO…
18-5822 Charles O. Keene v. Illinois Illinois 2018-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure dna-exonerations due-process eyewitness-identification judicial-integrity scientific-evidence scientific-research state-court-rulings state-court-split In criminal cases, where a defendant's conviction is based on eyewitness identification, this Court has found that it was the likelihood of misidentif…