false-confession
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-740 | Jonel H. Guihama v. United States | Armed Forces | 2025-01-14 | Denied | Response Waived | confession-corroboration constitutional-safeguards false-confession interrogation-tactics military-evidence psychological-coercion | Whether courts must consider the circumstances under which a confession was obtained—including extensive psychological pressure and coercive interroga… |
| 24-6152 | Josh Pompey v. Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. | Third Circuit | 2024-12-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | dna-testing equitable-tolling false-confession habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief scientific-evidence | 1. HAVING OBTAINED FAVORABLE NEW DNA RESULTS VIA POSTCONVICTION DNA TESTING, IS PETITIONER ENTITLED TO EQUITABLE TOLLING UNDER HOLLAND V. FLORIDA, 560… |
| 23-7370 | Sammie Davis King, Jr. v. Gregory Sampson, Warden | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-05-02 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-provisions due-process false-confession judicial-review jurisdiction legal-standing standing statutory-provisions | Did tL fttfitlul' &rr by d\kylooh'<JS fM 'w ( 1 -Ladu*/ kb'Hmv H*r Mlcd eff^bdo. ass/skncz obCowsd Idf h,j (JfrlM f )ft£ I A pdcif \rifdnbB'sA/'ofloA… |
| 23-7141 | Keith Martin Molineaux v. Donnie Ames, Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex | Fourth Circuit | 2024-04-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2253 brady-material certificate-of-appealability confession-fabrication false-confession habeas-corpus miller-el-standard miller-el-v-cockrell | Under Miller-El v. Cockrell 537 U.S. 322 (2003), should the Petitioner's novel claim that his confession was fabricated be encouraged to proceed furth… |
| 23-636 | Atif Ahmad Rafay v. Eric Jackson | Ninth Circuit | 2023-12-13 | Denied | Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 5th-amendment civil-rights due-process false-confession false-confessions habeas-corpus police-coercion police-misconduct undercover-operation wrongful-conviction wrongful-convictions | Should this Court summarily reverse the Ninth Circuit for failing to address petitioner's preserved claim that his conviction was premised on a confes… |
| 23-6156 | David Joseph Meister v. Tyrell Davis, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2023-12-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability complete-defense constitutional-rights false-confession habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-present-defense substantial-showing-of-denial | Whether the Court of Appeals egregiously misapplied this Court's standard for issuing a certificate of appealability in the face of a substantial show… |
| 22-6763 | Cecil Wallace Williamson, Jr. v. Mike Heinricy, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2023-02-13 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | capital-case civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process false-confession habeas-corpus organized-crime prosecutorial-misconduct racketeering witness-tampering | /r U GaPiTaL CaSL J. f fh*. 5+ah, ofXaoSc^ all outlet J~aSp<sr CoonTif bij fr Acktd-earhne^ multiple (^eruern mvirfhaA 'e^'/feS ~to P id via.f> me gr… |
| 21-6500 | Jermaine Neal v. Mississippi | Mississippi | 2021-12-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence constructive-amendment criminal-investigation due-process false-confession fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment perjury self-incrimination sixth-amendment | 1. WHEN A CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES BECOMES A SUSPECT IN A CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION FOR HOMICIDE, AND FIRST, AS A RESULT OF BADGERING AND PESTERING F… |
| 21-6502 | Bobby Griffin v. Connecticut | Connecticut | 2021-12-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | coerced-confession coercive-interrogation constitutional-rights due-process exclusionary-rule false-confession fourth-amendment interrogation-tactics probable-cause warrantless-search | 1) Whether Griffins Constitutional rights were violated by the Trial courts admittance of the evidence (e.g the firearm) at the defendants trial. |
| 21-5095 | Melissa Elizabeth Lucio v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2021-07-13 | Denied | Amici (2)IFP | arbitrary-exclusion civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-exclusion evidentiary-standards expert-testimony false-confession right-to-defense right-to-present-defense | 1. Whether, as the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Tenth, and Eleventh Circuits have held, this Court's cases clearly establish … |
| 20-350 | Daniel Flores v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2020-09-16 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 14th-amendment 5th-amendment confession-coercion confidential-informant due-process false-confession fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mexican-mafia | 1. Are a defendant's Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment due process rights violated by the placement of a paid confidential informant in an adjacent cell … |
| 19-7013 | Kenneth M. Gray v. Paul S. Kemper, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2019-12-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights confession criminal-procedure due-process false-confession false-promises ineffective-assistance interrogation no-merit-report parent-attorney post-conviction-counsel sentencing sentencing-error waiver waiver-petition | Whether post-conviction counsel failed to file a "no-merit" report. Whether detectives made false promises to illicit a confession during the interro… |
| 18-6203 | Larry Hayes v. Marvin Plumley, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2018-10-03 | Denied | IFP | 5th-amendment confession-evidence criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process false-confession miranda-rights miranda-waiver miranda-warning police-conduct police-interrogation voluntariness | First, what constitutes a promise of leniency that destroys the voluntariness of a subsequent confession? Second, given what we now know about the pre… |