government-witness
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 24-6358 | James David Watwood v. David Newcomer, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2025-01-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | compulsory-process confidential-records due-process government-witness impeachment-evidence sixth-amendment | Is a criminal defendant's Sixth Amendment right to Compulsory Process or Fourteenth Amendment right to due process, right to present a defense, and a … |
| 23-6175 | Phillip A. Kenner v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-12-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process evidence-standard government-witness napue-standard napue-v-illinois perjury prosecutorial-misconduct witness-perjury | At a criminal trial, Petitioner sought to confront a Government witness with notes of an interview, taken by Government agents, which reflected a prio… |
| 23-5677 | Rodtravion Woods v. Brian Cates, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2023-09-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights credibility credibility-challenge effective-assistance-of-counsel government-witness habeas-corpus impeachment-evidence ineffective-assistance prejudice sixth-amendment trial-counsel | Was petitioner prejudicially denied his constitutional right to the effective assistance of counsel when his counsel failed to impeach a critical gove… |
| 23-5644 | Robert Timothy Blake v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-09-25 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | coa-mandate constitutional-rights due-process government-witness ineffective-assistance judicial-review plea-bargain record-evidence reversible-error strickland-standard strickland-v-washington | 1. Did Trial Counsel Fail to Adequately inform Defendant of the Consequences of Accepting the Plea Bargain? 2. Was the Strickland V. Washington stan… |
| 22-6885 | Juan Martinez Pedraza v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-02-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | which provides that the government has a duty to cross-examination due-process false-testimony fifth-amendment government-witness napue-v-illinois perjury prosecutorial-misconduct | Juan Martinez Pedraza was convicted on the strength of trial testimony by a co-defendant who entered into a written cooperation agreement with the gov… |
| 22-158 | Jeremiah D. Edwards v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-08-19 | Denied | Response Waived | courtroom-conduct due-process fair-trial government-witness judicial-discretion judicial-procedure jury-consideration legal-standard witness-behavior | Is a Government witness' inappropriate behavior in the courtroom gallery an improper consideration for a juror? |
| 21-6785 | Jarvis Thomas v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-01-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence government-witness hypothetical-question hypothetical-questions rule-704b | Whether Fed. R. Evid. 704(b) precludes a government expert in a criminal case from opining that the defendant knowingly participated in the charged cr… |
| 21-20 | Jack Albert Chappell v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-07-08 | Denied | Response Waived | brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence-disclosure evidence-handling fair-trial government-witness prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony | Under Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), does prosecutorial misconduct and mishandling of evidence constitute a Brady violation when the Governmen… |
| 20-7418 | Javon Joshua Jennings v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process government-witness obstruction-of-justice witness-tampering | hJofy^rb &oho /W" )/ybU) T)oes /$S%a)hffh Jha-f-kz 6JaiT aryy? an i Can J%£ ££&'zCknt&JfJi dvz/j&d' a)/% /a&y)&7kf & Cvoyesrisn&Ct h), |
| 20-5038 | Reza Olangian v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-07-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | credibility due-process fair-trial government-informant government-witness trial-procedure truthfulness witness-availability witness-credibility witness-testimony | 1. Is a defendant deprived of a fair trial when government witnesses are invited to comment on his credibility and candor, and when he in turn is aske… |
| 18-9132 | Earlie Dickerson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-05-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-standard federal-rule-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure government-witness government-witnesses motion-for-new-trial newly-discovered-evidence perjury trial-motion witness-credibility witness-testimony | Question One: Whether new evidence that Government witnesses provided untruthful statements during a trial can ever satisfy the requirements for a mot… |
| 18-6273 | Antoine Davis v. United States | Third Circuit | 2018-10-10 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process evidence evidence-exclusion fair-trial fifth-amendment government-witness ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error sixth-amendment | Whether the Lower Court Misapprehended its Abuse of discretion when the lower court excluded evidence of the Government witness, which evidence was pu… |
| 18-237 | Gary Thomas and Felix Parrilla v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-08-23 | Denied | Response Waived | 6th-amendment civil-procedure conspiracy-venue constitutional constitutional-venue cooperating-witness criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure government-witness manufactured-venue prosecutorial-discretion sixth-amendment venue venue-determination venue-manipulation venue-provisions witness-cooperation | 1. Whether it is permissible under the venue provisions of the U.S. Constitution Article III, § 2, cl. 3; the Sixth Amendment; and Federal Rules of Cr… |
| 18-143 | Sandra Lee Bart v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-07-31 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | appellate-review conspiracy conspiracy-conviction due-process evidence evidentiary-hearing fair-trial government-witness juror-misconduct jury-misconduct precedent sixth-amendment substantial-evidence | 1. Did the Eighth Circuit fail to follow its own precedent, and rule contrary to other Appellate Circuits and the United States Supreme Court when it … |