fair-trial-rights

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-969 Anthony Zottola, Sr. v. United States Second Circuit 2026-02-18 Pending anonymous-jury declaration-against-penal-interest fair-trial-rights hearsay-exception presumption-of-innocence right-to-present-defense 1. Whether a defendant's right to present a defense is violated when he is precluded from offering a declarant's out-of-court, self-inculpatory narrat…
25-378 Donald Olsen v. Aaron Salter Sixth Circuit 2025-09-30 Denied Amici (1) brady-violation exculpatory-evidence fair-trial-rights identification-procedure qualified-immunity section-1983 The Circuit Courts of Appeals are in conflict on the question of whether and when a police officer may be held liable under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for a v…
24-5073 Billy Hammonds v. Fredeane Artis, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof fair-trial-rights ineffective-assistance judicial-bias mistrial prosecutorial-misconduct trial-court-bias witness-testimony I. WAS MR. HAMMONDS DENIED EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL GUARANTEED BY THE FEDERAL AND STATE CONSTITUTIONS (U.S CONST. 1963, ART l § 20) WHERE TRI…
20-1164 Donald E. Boyd v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2021-02-24 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process fair-trial fair-trial-rights involuntary-medication psychotropic-drugs right-to-counsel self-representation sixth-amendment xanax-dosage 1. Whether the State of New Jersey's administration of unreasonably high doses of the controlled psychotropic drug Xanax (i.e., dosages four times the…
19-5296 Ozzie Davis v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. Third Circuit 2019-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP bruton-v-us criminal-conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial-rights jackson-v-virginia prosecutorial-misconduct state-trial sufficiency-of-evidence supreme-court-precedent third-degree-murder WHETHER THE PENNSYLVANIA SUPERIOR COURT'S DENIAL ON DIRECT REVIEW OF THE CHALLENGE TO THE SUFFICIENCY OF THE EVIDENCE IN SUPPORT OF PETITIONER'S CON…
18-8499 Nestor David Vasquez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP almendarez-torres apprendi constitutional-fairness courtroom-prejudice courtroom-security defendant-rights defendant-specific-security fair-trial fair-trial-rights inherent-prejudice inherently-prejudicial judicial-procedure ninth-circuit-review prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing-enhancements trial-security 1. In Holbrook v. Flynn , 475 U.S. 560, 570-72 (1986), the Court held that the mere presence of guards at a trial was not so inherently prejudicial th…