| 25A496 |
Robert W. Feldman v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2025-10-30 |
Application |
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cause-of-death executive-branch forensic-pathology legislative-branch separation-of-powers subdelegation |
Question not identified. |
| 25A460 |
George Sharrod Johns v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2025-10-22 |
Presumed Complete |
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confrontation-clause criminal-procedure expert-testimony forensic-pathology sixth-amendment testimonial-statements |
Question not identified. |
| 24-6588 |
In Re Lancey Darnell Ray |
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2025-02-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
autopsy-determination due-process forensic-pathology insufficiency-of-evidence jackson-v-virginia medical-examiner |
1st QUESTION PRESENTED
Whether state experts ' failure to apply a reliable method to forensic
pathology investigations, as required by state procedur… |
| 23-7697 |
Zachary Kelsey v. Tim Garrett, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cause-of-death closing-argument criminal-procedure criminal-trial forensic-pathologist forensic-pathology habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel second-degree-murder sixth-amendment |
1. Whether Zachary Kelsey was deprived of the effective assistance of counsel when trial counsel waived Kelsey's closing argument at trial.
2. Whethe… |
| 23-6171 |
Patrick Henry Hill, II v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2023-12-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure forensic-pathology medical-examiner medical-examiners shaken-baby-syndrome veterans veterans-jurisdiction |
Veterans, to include active duty service members and family members that are stationed in the continental United States at installations garrisoned by… |
| 22-7790 |
Lancey Darnell Ray v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2023-06-15 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
active-duty-service-members actual-innocence criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process forensic-pathology medical-examiners military-jurisdiction state-medical-examiners veterans |
Active duty service members, i.e., Airmen, Soldiers, Marines, Sailors, and Space Force alike, with civilian dependents stationed in the continental Un… |
| 22-885 |
South Carolina v. Angela D. Brewer |
South Carolina |
2023-03-15 |
Denied |
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confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure expert-testimony forensic-evidence forensic-pathology melendez-diaz-v-massachusetts ohio-v-clark sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence testimonial-statements |
Whether lab results requested not by law enforcement but by a forensic pathologist to assist in making a routine cause of death determination are test… |
| 21-5700 |
Stanley Renard Tilley, Sr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence capital-case forensic-pathology habeas-corpus herrera-standard ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default schlup-standard strickland-standard |
Mr. Tilley alleged that he is actual innocent, and his trial counsel was ineffective for failing to call expert witnesses as requested by Mr. Tilley, … |
| 20-6108 |
Antoine Washington v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-841 burrage-precedent burrage-v-united-states but-for but-for-causation causation causation-standard criminal-law drug-sentencing forensic-pathology statutory-interpretation |
I.
Whether the "special rule" exception to but-for causation mentioned in dicta in Burrage v. United States, 571 U.S. 204 (2014) is inapplicable to an… |