forensic-testimony
5 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-6134 | Joshua Idlefonso Villalobos v. Kris Mayes, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-12-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-review expert-evidence forensic-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prejudice-standard | Petitioner Joshua Villalobos was convicted largely on the unchallenged testimony of a medical examiner, Dr. Alex Zhang, who concluded that the victim … |
| 24-5706 | Paul Gary Wallace v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-10-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | ballistics-evidence criminal-procedure due-process forensic-testimony scientific-reliability toolmark-identification | Whether and to what extent it violates a defendant's due process rights to allow a firearms examiner to testify conclusively that two sets of ballisti… |
| 23-7150 | Elana Gordon v. Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 2024-04-05 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure criminal-trial expert-testimony expert-witness forensic-evidence forensic-testimony right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-counsel | 1. Whether the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment permits the prosecution in a criminal trial to present testimony by a substitute forensic e… |
| 22-7368 | Parnell R. May v. Arkansas | Arkansas | 2023-04-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence brady-violation due-process forensic-testimony new-scientific-evidence reasonable-doubt | Question not identified. |
| 18-8111 | Rossahn Black v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-02-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bullcoming confrontation confrontation-clause evidence-admissibility expert-witness forensic-evidence forensic-testimony melendez-diaz melendez-diaz-precedent ninth-circuit-interpretation sixth-amendment testimony | I. Whether this Court's decision in Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts, 557 U.S. 305, 129 5.Ct. 2527 (2009) and Builcoming v. New Mexico, 5614 U.S. 647, 1… |