forensic-testimony

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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…