government-agent
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-1152 | Gregory Garcia v. New Jersey | New Jersey | 2025-05-09 | Denied | Response Waived | affidavit criminal-defendant franks-hearing government-agent legal-defenses search-warrant | Whether a criminal defendant is entitled to a Franks hearing when he presents specific and concrete evidence that the government agent who presented t… |
| 23-7754 | Alejandro Carrasco v. United States | First Circuit | 2024-06-18 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | bribery circuit-split federal-bribery government-agent official-act public-corruption quid-pro-quo statutory-interpretation | I. Does an external consultant retained by a state or local government qualify as a government "agent" subject to prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 666 wh… |
| 22-5431 | Davante Turner v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-08-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-protections courtroom-closure due-process fair-trial government-agent public-trial sixth-amendment structural-error | (1) Whether it is structural error and a violation of Petitioner's constitutional protections to a fair and public trial under the Sixth Amendment of … |
| 21-8139 | Duenta Grier v. Georgia | Georgia | 2022-06-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | availability confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process government-agent minors testimonial-hearsay witness-availability | Was the Confrontation Clause violated when the State presented testimonial hearsay consisting of out-of-court statements to a government agent alleged… |
| 21-7950 | Enrique Alejandro Faz v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-05-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment burden-of-proof constitutional-responsibility drug-conversation drug-evidence due-process evidence-discovery government-agent probable-cause warrantless-search | - Whether it is unconstitutional to derive from an alleged phone call that the conversation is about drugs simply because an ag ent of the government… |
| 21-311 | Carrie S. Willis, Individually and as Trustee of the Trust of James C. and Norma D. Willis v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-08-31 | Denied | discretionary-function-exception federal-tort-claims-act government-agent government-liability mandatory-duty sovereign-immunity state-law-tort-claims tort-claims | 1. Whether the discretionary-function exception shields the Government from suit whenever a government agent fails to fulfill a mandatory duty that ap… | |
| 21-5163 | Gregory Scott Stephen v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-07-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography criminal-procedure eighth-circuit fourth-amendment government-agent private-citizen search-and-seizure search-warrant sentencing-guidelines standing | 1. Was the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit's conclusion that a private citizen can never be established as a government agent ab… |
| 21-5039 | Gavin Wayne Wright v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-07-08 | Denied | IFP | co-conspirator-statements co-defendant criminal-conspiracy due-process entrapment false-statements federal-rules-of-evidence government-agent jury-instruction materiality testimony | I. Petitioner pointed to the Government agent's testimony about his "recruitment" role and activities for co-defendant Patrick Stein, and admitted tes… |
| 18-6659 | James Rodwell v. Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 2018-11-13 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | agency-relationship criminal-informant criminal-procedure government-agent implicit-agreement jailhouse-informant massiah massiah-doctrine sentencing-benefits sixth-amendment | Whether an in-custody criminal informant who has repeatedly benefited monetarily and received lesser sentences from previous cooperation with the gove… |