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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-689 | George Sharrod Johns v. Georgia | Georgia | 2025-12-12 | Pending | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse Waived | autopsy confrontation-clause criminal-procedure hearsay sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence | A forensic pathologist who performed an autopsy on a homicide victim was unavailable for trial. In her place, the State of Georgia offered testimony b… |
| 25-6163 | Terrance Deshun Cash v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-11-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment hearsay sixth-amendment | Petitioner Cash contend that his constitutional rights was violated be fore the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals due to the stated facts raised beforet… |
| 25-6000 | Demeccio Caston v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2025-10-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause crawford-rule criminal-procedure due-process hearsay testimonial-evidence | Whether permitting a detective to testify to unconfronted, testimonial hearsay statements that directly inculpate a defendant statements, made by witn… |
| 25A239 | Demeccio Caston v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2025-08-29 | Presumed Complete | confrontation-clause crawford-precedent criminal-procedure hearsay sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence | In Petitioner's case, the Louisiana Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals announced a change in prior law that inculpatory hearsay statements made by witnes… | |
| 25-5204 | Mario Onesimo Gonzalez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-07-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure drug-evidence expert-testimony hearsay sixth-amendment | Whether a drug value "expert" contravenes the Confrontation Clause and Smith v. Arizona, 602 U.S. 779 (2024), when her testimony about the value of dr… |
| 25-5190 | Curtis Dickerson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-07-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | co-conspirators expert-testimony fourth-circuit hearsay insufficient-evidence monetary-forfeiture | I. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Dickerson's appeal, where the District Court improperly entered a $2,400,000.00 Order of Monetar… |
| 25-5156 | Marlin L. Royal v. Fidencio N. Guzman, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2025-07-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process evidence-law federal-procedure hearsay | Whether, on de novo review, the erroneous admission of hearsay accusatory statements that the prosecution's chief witness made to the police prejudici… |
| 24-7139 | David Little v. Georgia | Georgia | 2025-05-06 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process hearsay sixth-amendment | A Whether the Trial Court violated Sixth Amendment Right to Confrontation by Admitting the deceased Neg wiehad" diary— Which Contained testimonial Sta… |
| 24-6615 | Gregory P. Damm v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-02-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure federal-sentencing hearsay plain-error revocation-proceeding supervised-release | Can a federal supervised release defendant can ever obtain relief on plain error for the erroneous admission of hearsay in a revocation proceeding? |
| 24-6201 | Christopher Jeorge Millican v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-12-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure hearsay search-warrant sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence | Whether the Confrontation Clause allows the admission at trial—without confrontation of the declarant—of documents created in response to a search war… |
| 24-5982 | Benigno Perez-Aguilar v. Jeff Howard, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2024-11-15 | Denied | IFP | expert-testimony hearsay ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment trial-court-discretion witness-bolstering | Expert testimony from Thomas Cottrell did nothing more than bolster Clarisse and Genesis. Did the trial court abuse its discretion in letting Dr. Co… |
| 24-5132 | Charles Fitzgerald Branch v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-07-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split evidence-admissibility evidence-admission federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay hearsay-rule judicial-interpretation non-hearsay non-hearsay-probative-value probative-value procedural-standard | Should this Court resolve a split between the Ninth and Third circuits, where the Third Circuit has condemned the admission of evidence for a non-hear… |
| 23-7549 | In Re Kinley MacDonald | 2024-05-23 | Dismissed | IFP | child-custody child-welfare due-process family-rights hearsay hearsay-evidence judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction parental-rights standard-of-review state-court-procedure | Before the Court is a matter involving unabused children trafficked into foster care by hearsay, causing irreparable harm. The mother suffered expecte… | |
| 23-7548 | In Re Kinley MacDonald | 2024-05-23 | Dismissed | IFP | child-custody child-welfare civil-rights due-process family-law hearsay hearsay-evidence judicial-misconduct jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge parental-rights state-statute | 1) Can a trial Court open and remove children in a "pre-adjudicative Custody" case based solely on hearsay accusations prohibited by State Statute and… | |
| 23-7550 | In Re Kinley MacDonald | 2024-05-23 | Dismissed | IFP | child-abuse due-process family-rights federal-review habeas-corpus hearsay ineffective-assistance jurisdiction post-conviction-relief protective-custody state-court-jurisdiction | Before we Court is of matter inveluirae Lnabused Children kra€icked rata aster Care by hearsay , Causiry, ierepairable. hacen, The motter SueCered exp… | |
| 23-7355 | Demario Barker v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-05-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-sentencing-guidelines guideline-calculation hearsay hearsay-statements reliability-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether presumptively unreliable hearsay statements should be permitted in sentencing hearings to substantially increase a Defendant's guideline calcu… |
| 23-7326 | Erik Johnson v. Patrick Griffin | Second Circuit | 2024-04-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence hearsay hearsay-evidence missing-witness missing-witness-instruction testimonial-statement | Whether the admission into evidence, through the testimony of decedent's 10-year-old daughter, of hearsay statements allegedly made by the decedent to… |
| 23-7314 | S. C. v. Vermont | Vermont | 2024-04-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-welfare clear-and-convincing due-process fourteenth-amendment hearsay hearsay-evidence parental-rights parental-unfitness santosky-standard santosky-v-kramer | 1. Whether Vermont's law allowing courts to terminate parental rights based largely on hearsay violates the Fourteenth Amendment and this Court's hold… |
| 23-7115 | Timothy D. Hinkle v. Kentucky | Kentucky | 2024-04-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process hearsay hearsay-rule jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct sexual-assault witness-credibility | Petitioner was found guilty of rape first-degree, tampering with a witness and assault fourth-degree during trial. The facts of the case, however, log… |
| 23-7092 | Kinley MacDonald v. Michael Duddy, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2024-03-28 | Dismissed | IFP | child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-law foster-care hearsay parental-rights state-agency | Question not identified. |
| 23-6952 | Frantz Brifil v. Florida | Florida | 2024-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-law crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-law hearsay out-of-court-statements sixth-amendment witness-testimony | WHETHER THE STATE COURT VIOLATED THE MANDATE OF CRAWFORD AND PROGENY BY INTRODUCING A NON TESTIFYING WITNESS'S OUT-OF-COURT STATEMENTS? |
| 23-924 | John Anthony Castro v. Adrian Fontes, Arizona Secretary of State, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-02-27 | Denied | Response Waived | arizona-ballot article-iii article-iii-standing ballot-access campaign-expenses hearsay hearsay-evidence judicial-discretion motion-to-amend presidential-candidate standing | Arizona ballot-placed Republican Presidential Candidate, whose direct and current competition for votes evidenced by thousands of dollars in Arizona-s… |
| 23A794 | Gail M. Ritchey v. Ohio | Ohio | 2024-02-27 | Presumed Complete | confrontation-clause constitutional-criminal-procedure coroner's-report evidence-admissibility hearsay sixth-amendment | Question not identified. | |
| 23-6802 | Wally Irizarry-Sisco v. United States | First Circuit | 2024-02-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-sex-abuse child-sex-case criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence-law excited-utterance hearsay hearsay-exception sixth-amendment | 1. Whether Federal Rule of Evidence 803(2), the hearsay exception for "excited utterances," encompasses out of court statements that (a) go beyond the… |
| 23-6795 | Gregory Taylor v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-02-21 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure evidence expert-testimony hearsay laboratory-evidence laboratory-tests sixth-amendment | Whether the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment is satisfied when an expert witness provides opinion testimony that is based on data from labo… |
| 23-820 | Ohio v. William Johnson | Ohio | 2024-01-30 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedRelisted (2) | 911-recording confrontation-clause domestic-violence excited-utterance hearsay non-testimonial ongoing-emergency sixth-amendment | When viewed objectively, were the statements describing the fresh incident of domestic violence in the 911 recording non-testimonial? |
| 23-6618 | Mabior M. Mabior v. Nebraska | Nebraska | 2024-01-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review confrontation-clause cross-examination hearsay hearsay-exception ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment testimonial-statement testimonial-statements | 1) Is a defendant's right to confrontation under the Sixth Amendment violated when testimonial statements are admitted for the truth of the matters as… |
| 23-6474 | Courtney Rose Desjarlais v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-01-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause cross-examination due-process hearsay hearsay-evidence sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | I. Under the Sixth Amendment of the United States Constitution, a defendant in a criminal case has the right to confront adverse witnesses against her… |
| 23-6343 | Patrick Bowie v. Mark Miller, Superintendent, Green Haven Correctional Facility | Second Circuit | 2023-12-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | authentication confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process evidence-authentication hearsay ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-v-washington | 1. Is the right to confrontation violated when inculpatory letters, turned over to the People by a non-testifying witness, admitted into evidence wit… |
| 23-6035 | In Re Kinley MacDonald | 2023-11-16 | Dismissed | Relisted (2)IFP | child-custody civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection family-law hearsay parental-rights standing state-federal-relations | Question not identified. | |
| 23-5983 | Eric Spencer v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-11-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion appellate-review court-procedure de-novo-review district-court evidence evidence-rules hearsay hearsay-evidence judicial-discretion standard-of-review | When reviewing a district court's ruling to admit hearsay into evidence, should the Court of Appeals apply an abuse of discretion standard or engage i… |
| 23-5971 | Kevondric Fezia v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-11-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | closing-arguments confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process hearsay jury non-testifying-witness prosecutorial-argument sixth-amendment witness-testimony | Does the Confrontation Clause apply to statements made by a prosecutor during closing arguments that detail for the jury what a non-testifying witness… |
| 23-5616 | Isaac Kipkurui Biegon v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-09-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | accomplice-testimony confrontation-clause conspiracy-evidence conspiracy-hearsay corroboration corroboration-evidence criminal-procedure due-process hearsay jury-instructions sixth-amendment | This petition seeks a review of a wrongful alleged conspiracy conviction. A. There are three foundational prerequisites which must be established to … |
| 23-5362 | Jerry Lee Beale, Jr. v. Mississippi | Mississippi | 2023-08-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempted-murder civil-rights criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process hearsay hearsay-testimony intent jury-instructions officer-testimony trial-procedure | A. Whether the indictment is defective for failure to allege what act Beale committed in furtherance of his attempt to kill the officers. B. Whether … |
| 23-5278 | Earl Monroe Belcher v. Brian Williams, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2023-08-03 | Denied | IFP | chain-of-custody constitutional-rights district-court dna-evidence due-process federal-law habeas-corpus hearsay ineffective-assistance reasonable-doubt unreasonable-application | 1. Whether the District Gourts' denial:of/appealability of COA was an unreasonable application of clearly established federal law? 2. Whether the Di… |
| 23-5217 | Kinley MacDonald v. Maine | Maine | 2023-07-26 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | bail-bond-conditions child-protective-custody constitutional-rights criminal-procedure custody due-process family-reunification hearsay judicial-review legal-standards state-statute | Question not identified. |
| 23-5216 | Kinley MacDonald v. Michael A. Duddy, et al. | First Circuit | 2023-07-26 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | child-abuse constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction foster-care hearsay interstate-crime jurisdiction parental-rights standing witness-tampering | Before a Court in a matter involving unabused Children trafficked into Foster Care, by hearsay, Causing irreparable harm. The mother suffered expected… |
| 23-5105 | Russell Garvis Griffith, Jr. v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-07-14 | Denied | IFP | child-abuse circuit-split evidence-rule-803(4) hearsay hearsay-exception household-abuse medical-diagnosis medical-treatment rule-803(4) witness-testimony | Whether a party seeking to admit an out-of-court statement pursuant to Rule 803(4) must show that the speaker subjectively knew that the identity of t… |
| 23-5064 | Joseph Chandler Davall v. Warren L. Montgomery, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2023-07-10 | Denied | IFP | child-custody confrontation-clause constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure custody-dispute due-process evidence hearsay judicial-procedure legal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation | Question not identified. |
| 23-5040 | Brala Beverly v. Newport Beach Police Department, et al. | California | 2023-07-05 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights demurrer due-process fourteenth-amendment hearsay police-misconduct police-report state-court-procedure | 1. Is it a violation of due process under the fourteenth amendment of the U.S. Constitution for courts to dismiss a civil rights lawsuit by demurrer b… |
| 22-7846 | Vance Collins v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-06-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bruton-v-united-states codefendant codefendant-statement confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure hearsay out-of-court-statement sixth-amendment | Whether a defendant's rights under the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment are violated by the admission of a non-testifying codefendant's out… |
| 22-1139 | Victor Santana v. Texas | Texas | 2023-05-23 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2) | bolstering-evidence criminal-appeal criminal-procedure hearsay hearsay-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions prior-bad-act-evidence prior-bad-acts trial-counsel | Did the Court of Criminal Appeals err in finding that trial counsel's errors did not amount to ineffective assistance of counsel? |
| 22-7604 | Harbans Singh v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-05-19 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process hearsay immigration interpreter-testimony sixth-amendment | Whether an interpreter's hearsay statements are subject to Confrontation Clause analysis, particularly when the statements themselves constitute the c… |
| 22-7075 | Dennis Morgan Hicks v. Alabama | Alabama | 2023-03-22 | Denied | IFP | child-witnesses confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-defendant hearsay prior-statements sixth-amendment testimonial-statements witness-testimony | 1. Whether a criminal defendant is deprived of his Sixth Amendment right to confront witnesses against him, as set forth in Crawford v. Washington and… |
| 22-7026 | Erin F. Graham, Jr. v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2023-03-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | co-defendant confrontation-clause criminal-offense criminal-procedure domestic-incident hearsay hearsay-statements law-enforcement ongoing-criminal-offense | 1) Whether the introduction of a co-defendant's inculpatory hearsay statements about her alleged co-conspirator, made to law enforcement following a d… |
| 22-6861 | Jairo Francisco Solano v. Texas | Texas | 2023-02-24 | Denied | IFP | 6th-amendment appellate-review confrontation-clause criminal-procedure defendant-objection due-process evidence evidence-admission hearsay judicial-procedure trial-court-error | DID THE TRIAL COURT ERRED BY ADMITTING HEARSAY TESTIMONY OVER THE OBJECTION OF MR. SOLANO? WAS THIS EVIDENCE ADMITTED IN VIOLATION OF THE CONFRONTATI… |
| 22-6731 | Lamon Demetrus Wright v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-02-08 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | confrontation confrontation-rights due-process evidence-admissibility federal-courts good-cause good-cause-standard hearsay hearsay-reliability reliability supervised-release | What manner of hearsay should be considered "reliable" when federal courts decide whether the government has established "good cause" to deny confront… |
| 22-6437 | Alan Singleton v. Tom Watson, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2022-12-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial hearsay hearsay-testimony ineffective-assistance right-to-counsel | Did counsel provide ineffective assistance? Did the prosecution's use of the word "uncontroverted" place the burden of proof on the defendant, thereb… |
| 22-6414 | Keith Antonio Barnett v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-12-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process hearsay hearsay-testimony jury-instruction theory-of-defense | WHETHER THE CONFRONTATION CLAUSE WAS VIOLATED WHEN PROSECUTORS RELIED, EXCLUSIVELY, ON HEARSAY TESTIMONY TO CONVICT THE PETITIONER? WHETHER THE PET… |
| 22-581 | Heidi R. Steward, Acting Director, Oregon Department of Corrections v. Frank E. Gable | Ninth Circuit | 2022-12-22 | Denied | Relisted (2) | actual-innocence chambers-v-mississippi due-process evidence evidence-rule habeas-corpus hearsay hearsay-exception recantation third-party-confession | 1. Oregon Evidence Code Rule 804(8)(c), like Federal Rule of Evidence 804(b)(3)(B), allows admission of an out-of-court statement against penal intere… |
| 22-6356 | Tyler Nees v. Oregon | Oregon | 2022-12-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause cross-examination due-process evidence federal-review habeas-corpus hearsay independent-state-ground procedural-default sixth-amendment state-court | Question not identified. |
| 22-6232 | Trevor Jim Bishop v. California | California | 2022-12-06 | Denied | IFP | due-process evidence hearsay other-acts other-acts-evidence procedural-error procedure prosecutorial-misconduct trial-counsel waiver | Whether the majority opinion erred not only as to the substantive admissibility of the other acts evidence, but whether the majority also erred proce… |
| 22-6166 | Raymond Mendez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-11-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court-review criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process hearsay hearsay-evidence judicial-procedure sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervisory-power | Throughout three cycles of 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2) proceedings, the district court has denied Raymond Mendez a reduction to his life sentence based on … |
| 22-5775 | William Robert Bramscher v. California | California | 2022-10-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal constitutional-rights conviction criminal-appeal first-amendment hearsay hearsay-evidence presumption-of-innocence right-to-counsel | 1. HAVE THE FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHT TO ADVOCATE THAT I AM INNOCENT OF ANY CHARGED OF CONVICTED CRIME(S)? 2. AN APPEAL ATTORNEY CANNOT CONCEDE GUILT IN … |
| 22-5692 | Kyle Brandon Rocha v. West Virginia | West Virginia | 2022-09-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | beyond-a-reasonable-doubt confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process hearsay hearsay-evidence reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-hearing standard-of-proof | Is it a violation of a defendant's rights to due process of law and confrontation for a Court to make a finding in a sentencing hearing based solely o… |
| 22-5577 | Marvin Davis v. Kevin Genovese, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2022-09-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-interview child-witness confrontation-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-counsel forensic-interviewer hearsay hearsay-statements sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation | (1) WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT ERRED IN ALLOWING THE CHILD VIDEO INTERVIEW AND WHETHER T.C.A. SECTION 24-7-123 IS [UNCONSTITUTIONAL? (2) WHETHER THE PET… |
| 22-5520 | Anthony Sims, Jr. v. New Jersey | New Jersey | 2022-09-07 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause criminal-trial cross-examination hearsay hearsay-statement memory-loss pre-trial-hearing sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence | The Confrontation Clause bars testimonial hearsay when the defendant has not had the opportunity for cross-examination. At Mr. Sims' trial for attempt… |
| 22-5469 | Jeffrey Beard, II v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-08-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination hearsay hearsay-evidence obstruction-of-justice sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | The Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution requires that the accused "shall enjoy the right ... to be confronted with the witnesses against him." Th… |
| 22-168 | Ryan James Deroo v. Illinois | Illinois | 2022-08-23 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-law due-process evidence evidence-rule ex-post-facto hearsay hearsay-exception medical-records retroactive-modification state-rule | Whether a retroactive modification of a state rule of evidence allowing certain medical records to be admitted as admissible hearsay which was previou… |
| 22-5012 | Kielan Brett Franklin v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-06-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | crime-of-violence due-process fifth-amendment guideline-range hearsay hearsay-statements hobbs-act sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reliability | (1) Is substantive reliability required under the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States when a district c… |
| 21-8054 | Carlos Johnson v. Dan Reddington, Warden | Missouri | 2022-06-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-rights crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process evidence-law habeas-corpus hearsay probation-revocation | To guarantee fairness, should criminal defendants in probation revocation proceedings be provided under the due process clause with a more robust righ… |
| 21-7854 | Michael G. Peters v. David Hittner, Judge | Fifth Circuit | 2022-05-13 | Dismissed | IFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination hearsay sixth-amendment unavailability | Question not identified. |
| 21-7698 | Daniel Davis v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-04-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause correctional-officer evidence hearsay prison sixth-amendment | 1) Was the Sixth Amendment guaranty of the right of confrontation denied by the trial introduction of a handwritten statement of a state prison correc… |
| 21-7610 | Terry Smith v. Florida, et al. | Florida | 2022-04-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | autopsy autopsy-testimony confrontation-clause due-process evidence forensic-evidence hearsay medical-examiner sixth-amendment testimony | 1. Does Florida's practice of allowing a medical examiner to testify to an autopsy he/she did not perform violate the Confrontation Clause when the me… |
| 21-7613 | James Edward Williams v. Illinois | Illinois | 2022-04-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence hearsay hearsay-evidence jury-instructions prior-bad-acts propensity | The state appellate court's decision was wrong Can the jury be instructed to consider Criminal 3.14 IPI instructions Saying that the jury can consider… |
| 21-7427 | William Gregory Snow v. Illinois | Illinois | 2022-03-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process evidence-rule excited-utterance hearsay hearsay-exception impeachment prior-consistent-statements witness-testimony | Whether the Third District Appellate Court of Illinois' ruling unconstitutionally expanded the scope of the excited utterance exception to hearsay as … |
| 21-7419 | Gilberto Mulgado v. Florida | Florida | 2022-03-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-hearsay child-testimony constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cumulative-evidence custodial-offense due-process fair-trial hearsay sexual-battery | Whether a criminal defendant's constitutional due process right to a fair trial is violated by the admission at trial of needlessly cumulative child h… |
| 21-7316 | Richard Duerson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-03-08 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | absent-witness confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admission hearsay hearsay-testimony judicial-discretion judicial-proceedings just-conclusion officer-testimony | OF THE CONFRONTATION CLAUSE? |
| 21-7051 | Demarcus Antwon Chatmon v. Texas | Texas | 2022-02-03 | Denied | IFP | body-camera body-camera-recording confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process hearsay hearsay-exception police-evidence primary-purpose testimonial-statement | The Confrontation Clause grants defendants the right to confront witnesses against them. Here, the trial court overruled objections and allowed accusa… |
| 21-6980 | Michael R. Fowler v. Robert Fox, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2022-01-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence hearsay | unconFrontedstatements Whather a victims to police wre admissible at trial onthe grounds of unavailability by forfeiture where no affirmcaused +he wi… |
| 21-6721 | Tyrone Anderson v. Delaware | Delaware | 2021-12-23 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment 6th-amendment confrontation-clause due-process fair-trial hearsay ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction standard-of-review trial-counsel | Does it Constitute Ineffective Assistance of Counsel to Fail to object to a statement From the state's Chief Witness who claimed that a Non-Testifying… |
| 21-6706 | Billy Dean Smith v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-12-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof due-process fifth-amendment hearsay judicial-discretion sentencing uncharged-felony | Did the district court violate Mr. Smith's Fifth Amendment Due Process rights by relying on unreliable, unsupported hearsay to, first, find that Mr. S… |
| 21-6672 | Trevor Jim Bishop v. California | California | 2021-12-20 | Denied | IFP | due-process evidence-code-section-1109 federal-rule-of-evidence-404(b) hearsay hearsay-evidence ineffective-assistance other-acts-evidence procedural-error prosecutorial-misconduct trial-counsel | Whether the majority opinion erred not only as to the substantive admissibility of the other acts evidence, but whether the majority also erred proced… |
| 21-6653 | Urban Fermin v. Anthony J. Annucci, Acting Commissioner, New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision | Second Circuit | 2021-12-17 | Denied | IFP | business-records confrontation-clause criminal-procedure dna-evidence evidence hearsay hearsay-exception sixth-amendment | Whether the business record exception to hearsay survives the United States Constitution's Sixth Amendment Confrontation Clause when the regularly con… |
| 21-6635 | Larry Alonzo Gibbs, Jr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-12-16 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process hearsay hearsay-evidence relevance reliability witness-testimony | Does the State of Florida violate a defendant's right to confront witnesses when they allow the State to introduce evidence that a minor suffered from… |
| 21-6587 | Marcus Termaine Darden v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-12-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-testimony gang-expert harmless-error hearsay hearsay-testimony sixth-circuit | I DID THE SIXTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERR BY HOLDING THE DISTRICT COURT'S ERRORS IN ADMITTING POLICE "GANG EXPERT" AND OTHER HEARSAY TESTIMONY WERE… |
| 21-6238 | Donald Broadnax v. John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-11-10 | Denied | IFP | AEDPA aedpa-deference due-process federal-habeas-corpus hearsay hearsay-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel postconviction-relief state-evidentiary-rules state-postconviction-proceedings | Alabama prohibits a state postconviction petitioner from introducing hearsay to prove a penalty phase ineffective assistance of counsel claim. By cont… |
| 21-6173 | Rotimi Salu v. New York State Justice Center for the Protection of People With Special Needs | New York | 2021-11-04 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | administrative-adjudication administrative-law confrontation confrontation-rights credibility due-process employment-law hearsay hearsay-evidence witness-credibility | Does it violate due process of law for a state agency to routinely adjudicate accusations of wrongdoing on hearsay evidence alone (in over 95 percent … |
| 21-576 | Benjamin Forrest Carter v. Virginia | Virginia | 2021-10-20 | Denied | Response Waived | confrontation-clause constitutional-violation criminal-procedure hearsay hearsay-testimony judicial-error prior-testimony remedy sixth-amendment | Whether the Supreme Court of Virginia erred in affirming the judgment of the Court of Appeals of Virginia, which affirmed the defendant's convictions … |
| 21-5640 | Todd Dalton v. Raymond Madden, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2021-09-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-sexual-abuse child-sexual-abuse-accommodation-syndrome csaas-evidence due-process evidentiary-hearing hearsay in-absentia-trial ineffective-assistance taint-and-memory-expert trial-procedure | I. Did the California Courts' Unreasonable Refusal to Hold an Evidentiary Hearing Entitle Dalton to anEvidentiary Hearing? II. Did Trial Counsel Rend… |
| 21-5502 | Lucio P. Munoz v. Nebraska | Nebraska | 2021-08-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process hearsay ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-in-limine postconviction-relief | WHETHER OR NOT THE NEBRASKA COURTS DECISIONS CONCERNING "HEARSAY" CONFORMS TO THE ESTABLISHED RULE OF EVIDENCE ON THIS SUBJECT? WHETHER OR NOT NEBR… |
| 21-5438 | Noe Gerardo Morin v. Bobby Lumpkin. Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2021-08-20 | Denied | IFP | brady-disclosure confrontation-clause crawford-standard crawford-v-washington fundamental-fairness hearsay hearsay-statement ineffective-counsel non-testimonial prejudice right-to-confront testimonial | Mr.Morin alleges that the district court erred by mischaracterizing • statements from a non-testifying witness, resulting in severe prejudice agains… |
| 21-5406 | Bryson Tuesno v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-08-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process hearsay impartial-jury sixth-amendment testimony | Is it a violation of one's 6th amendment right to Impartial Jury by allowing person to contridict another person's testimony with hearsay statements? … |
| 20-8435 | Vladimir Eugene v. Florida | Florida | 2021-06-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment confrontation-clause due-process equal-protection evidence fair-trial fourteenth-amendment hearsay ineffective-assistance non-hearsay-purpose | I. WHETHER OTHERWISE INADMISSIBLE NONTESTIMONIAL HEARSAY, WHICH FALLS WITHIN NO STATUTORY HEARSAY EXCEPTION, ADMITTED FOR NON-HEARSAY PURPOSE AND THER… |
| 20-8266 | Eric Lucas v. Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-06-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment 6th-amendment confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process hearsay hearsay-evidence ineffective-assistance jury-trial prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment | Whether Petitioner 's Constitutional Rights Under The 5th, 6th And 14th Amendments Were Violated When The State 's Motions To Allow Hearsay Evidence… |
| 20-1663 | Matthew D. Norwood v. United States | Armed Forces | 2021-05-28 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-procedure evidence evidence-rule forensic-interview hearsay hearsay-exception jury-deliberation prior-consistent-statement repetition trial-procedure truth-effect witness-testimony | Whether admission of a recorded hearsay statement as a physical exhibit, permitted to be reviewed during deliberations, is a fair application of the e… |
| 20-8151 | Marcus D. Williams v. California | California | 2021-05-26 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility forensic-evidence forensic-testing hearsay hearsay-evidence testimonial-statement testimonial-statements | 1. What degree of formality is necessary before hearsay statements contained within a forensic testing report which connect an accused to the testing … |
| 20-1565 | Michael Ryan Mitchan v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-05-11 | Denied | Response Waived | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process hearsay hearsay-evidence relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines | 1. Should defendants in criminal cases be permitted to confront witnesses against them at sentencing when their uncorroborated hearsay statements are … |
| 20-7839 | Taquarius Kaream Ford v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-04-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process hearsay presentence-report rule-32 sentencing | When the defendant personally objects at sentencing to a hearsay accusation in a presentence report that he raped a woman, even though his attorney ne… |
| 20-7772 | Tanelle M. Jefferson v. Ohio | Sixth Circuit | 2021-04-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process hearsay reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether or not the State of Ohio proved the petitioner's guilt "Beyond a Reasonable Doubt"? (1) All elements the offenses must be proved to the jury w… |
| 20-7700 | Robert Ibarra v. W. L. Montgomery, Acting Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2021-04-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | co-defendant-statements co-perpetrator-statements confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process evidence-exclusion first-degree-murder hearsay right-to-defense right-to-present-defense | Does the exclusion of statements by a co-perpetrator that he was solely responsible for the charged murder and the defendant was innocent, including t… |
| 20-7448 | Shuntario Johnson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-03-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | chambers-v-mississippi confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process hearsay jury-instructions right-to-confront-witnesses right-to-present-defense right-to-present-evidence sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth Circuit's decision to affirm the hearsay objection was contrary to Chambers v. Mississippi, 410 U.S. 284, 302 (1973) and its progeny… |
| 20-7343 | Justin David Williams v. Utah | Utah | 2021-03-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence hearsay sixth-amendment standard-of-review witness-testimony | Why was I denied the right to cross-examine my accused attacker, thereby violating my Sixth Amendment right "the accused shall enjoy the right to be c… |
| 20-7275 | Alvin Herron v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-02-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process hearsay ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interrogation prior-record sixth-amendment | Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) on his claim that his counsel r… |
| 20-7086 | Michael Fetherolf v. Tim Shoop, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2021-02-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence constitutional-interpretation cumulative-error due-process habeas-corpus hearsay jackson-v-virginia sixth-circuit-review suspension-clause | Whether the Sixth Circuit erred when it applied a death penalty sentencing Strickland review, in a non death penalty case, raising an actual innocence… |
| 20-6951 | Julio Torres Palomo v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2021-01-26 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency expert-testimony hearsay hearsay-objection indictment indictment-insufficiency jury-instructions sexual-abuse sufficiency-of-evidence | FORMAL REQUISITE OF AN INDICTMENT: THE INDICTMENT FAILED TO PROPERLY ALLEGE THE OFFENSE,AS WRITTEN IN THE TEXAS PENAL CODE ANN. § 21.02. INSUFFICIEN… |
| 20-6856 | Lavon Oden v. Neil Turner, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2021-01-14 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | confrontation-clause cross-examination effective-assistance-of-counsel hearsay hearsay-evidence ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment | Was LaVon Oden's Sixth Amendment:.Confrontation Clause right to directly confront witnesses; the right to cross examine adverse witnesses violated, wh… |
| 20-6844 | Jose Angel Torres v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-01-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion fair-trial federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay rule-of-completeness video-evidence | Is a Defendant denied a Fair Trial when a District Court Finds that additional video evidence is admissible under the Rule of Completeness to prevent … |
| 20-6817 | Jerry Lee Quinn v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-01-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split codefendant codefendant-testimony evidence-admission fifth-circuit-review hearsay hearsay-statement plain-error prior-consistent-statements prosecutorial-misconduct tome | I. THIS COURT SHOULD GRANT CERTIORARI BECAUSE THE FIFTH CIRCUIT'S MISAPPLICATION OF THE PLAIN ERROR DOCTRINE TO BAR REVIEW OF QUINN'S CLAIM THAT THE P… |
| 20-6196 | Mark Xavier Wallace v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-11-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-evidence criminal-procedure district-court-procedure due-process evidence fourth-circuit-review hearsay hearsay-testimony standard-of-review | 1. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in affirming that the District Court did not err by admitting inadmissible and highly prejudicial hearsay testimon… |
| 20-5933 | Junior Griffin v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-10-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | complete-defense constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process hearsay hearsay-exclusion impeachment-evidence right-to-present-evidence supervisory-power wiretap-evidence wiretapping | When Mr. Griffin was denied his right to present critical exculpatory and impeachment evidence through the unpresented remainder of the government's s… |
| 20-5902 | Larry Burt Sexton v. Tennessee | Tennessee | 2020-10-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | career-offender criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment hearsay hearsay-evidence parole-consideration sentencing | Error by the trial court in admitting hearsay evidence at the sentencing hearing and by finding that the petitioner was a career offender and sentenci… |
| 20-5520 | Michael Williamson v. Harold May, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2020-08-26 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial hearsay hearsay-statements right-to-witnesses sixth-amendment witness-exclusion | 1) Was Michael Williamson afforded a fair trial and right to confront his accusers or right to witnesses in his favor when the trial court excluded … |
| 20-5345 | Clarence Taylor v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-08-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law confrontation confrontation-right due-process government-burden hearsay revocation-proceeding testimonial-evidence witness-hearsay witness-testimony | Whether due process requires the government to make an affirmative showing that a witness is afraid to testify before relying on testimonial hearsay a… |
| 20-5297 | Demarius Bridges v. Illinois | Illinois | 2020-08-07 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process hearsay hearsay-testimony right-to-confrontation sixth-amendment standing testimonial-hearsay unavailable-witness | 2. Can unconfronted testimonial hearsay be used to secure the admission at trial of other unconfronted testimonial hearsay? 3. Did the state fail to … |
| 20-79 | Cedric L. Daniels v. Dave Davey, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2020-07-27 | Denied | Response Waived | confrontation-clause due-process evidence-admission fourteenth-amendment hearsay impeachment-evidence jury-instructions sixth-amendment three-strikes-law | Could a jurist of reason find that petitioner was denied his Sixth Amendment right to confront and cross-examine witnesses and Fourteenth Amendment ri… |
| 19-8577 | Shane Roscoe v. Connie Horton, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2020-06-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-violation confrontation-right confrontation-rights due-process forfeiture-by-wrongdoing hearsay hearsay-statements ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment witness-credibility | I. Petitioner Shane Roscce's conviction rested upon and. was upheld by the State Appellate and Federal Habeas Courts based on the testimonial hearsay… |
| 19-1236 | Rachel Joanna Evens v. Timothy John Evens | South Dakota | 2020-04-20 | Denied | Response Waived | terminating visitation without any consideration child-custody civil-procedure due-process evidence evidence-rules hearsay judicial-authority parental-rights parenting-coordinator sanctions | 1. What constitutes "Due Process of Law"? Can binding orders be implemented, terminating visitation without any consideration of evidence or a hearing… |
| 19-8302 | Richard H. Morrison v. Florida | Florida | 2020-04-19 | Denied | IFP | burden-of-proof due-process habitual-offender hearsay hearsay-evidence judicial-notice preponderance-of-evidence prison-release-reoffender sentencing-enhancement | It is true the state has the burden of proving by a preponderance of the evidence that the defendant qualifies as a PRR as defined in the statute Flor… |
| 19-8298 | David M. Kissi v. United States District Court for the District of Maryland | Fourth Circuit | 2020-04-18 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fbi fbi-warrant fourth-amendment hearsay hearsay-evidence miranda-rights search-and-seizure | Whether the trial court overlooked evidence that the FBI had Petitioner arrested and searched his home with writs that were inadmissible because they … |
| 19-1213 | Buck Leon Hammers v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2020-04-14 | Denied | Response Waived | conspiracy conspiracy-conviction-inferences-executive-positio criminal-conviction evidence evidence-standard exculpatory-evidence executive-position hearsay hearsay-exculpatory-evidence-chambers-v-mississipp inference judicial-review tenth-circuit | 1. Whether the Tenth Circuit improperly found, failing to apply this Court's authority and contrary to other courts of appeals and other of its own pr… |
| 19-8020 | Walter Freeman Jordan, III v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-03-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aiding-and-abetting criminal-procedure evidence-admission federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence fifth-circuit harmless-error hearsay hearsay-evidence standard-of-review | I. On Appeal WALTER JORDAN argued that the erroneous admission of hearsay evidence that he was the brother of one of the co-defendants caught leaving … |
| 19-7988 | Junior Jean Baptiste v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-03-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review confrontation-clause criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process evidence harmless-error hearsay hearsay-standard standard-of-review | Where hearsay, consisting of an inculpatory, out-of-court statement made other than to law enforcement, is erroneously introduced to the defendant's p… |
| 19-7802 | Fernando Ramirez Noria v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-02-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alienage confrontation-clause crawford-precedent crawford-v-washington essential-element federal-rules-of-evidence Hearsay non-testifying-agents sixth-amendment | Did the admission of the non-testifying agents' reports of their interviews of the defendant to prove alienage, an essential element of the offense, v… |
| 19-7599 | Tracey Smith-Kilpatrick v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | business-records confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington evidence-rule federal-rule-of-evidence-803(6) federal-rules-of-evidence government-use hearsay hearsay-exception record-reliability sixth-circuit testimonial-statement testimonial-statements | Whether business records qualify as inadmissible hearsay when the government uses them as testimonial statements and for purposes other than those for… |
| 19-7473 | Milon Jarr Brown v. Michigan | Michigan | 2020-01-29 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights discretion due-process expert-testimony fifth-amendment hearsay judicial-bias photographic-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct self-incrimination sixth-amendment | WAS THE PETITIONER DENIED AN OPPORTUNITY TO PRESENT A COMPLETE DEFENSE WHEN A WITNESS FROM THE DEFENSE INVOKED A SPECIOUS FIFTH AMENDMENT CLAIM AGAINS… |
| 19-7480 | David Paul Lynch v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-01-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review constitutional-error eleventh-circuit harmless-error hearsay hearsay-statements jury-trial precedent sixth-amendment weight-of-evidence | 1. Did the Eleventh Circuit violate this Court's precedent on harmless error when it focused its harmless error analysis solely on the weight of the u… |
| 19-7367 | Adalberto Magana-Gonzalez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-01-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | border-patrol confrontation-clause drug-smuggling expert-testimony hearsay prejudicial-error sixth-amendment witness-testimony | Whether the district court committed prejudicial error under the Sixth Amendment when it permitted a DEA agent to tell the jury what a Border Patrol a… |
| 19-7376 | Alice C. Trappler v. New York | New York | 2020-01-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof confrontation-clause conspiracy criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process forfeiture hearsay hearsay-exception legal-insufficiency sixth-amendment waiver | 1. Upon trial counsel's failure to move to dismiss on legal insufficiency grounds at trail, is the uninformed automatic waiver and silently imposed pe… |
| 19-7294 | Mohammed Kwaning v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-01-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apprendi civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process evidence fair-trial hearsay hearsay-testimony judicial-error jury-trial material-evidence preponderance-of-evidence sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Whether the Government officials conduct violated constitutional rights? where;Petitioner's (a) The District Court failed to disclose material eviden… |
| 19-7302 | Latefah Shampine v. Sarver's Realty, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2020-01-15 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence-and-witnesses forced-drugging forced-medication free-speech hearsay hearsay-evidence involuntary-treatment judicial-misconduct jurisdiction-dispute racial-discrimination standing | Constitutionally speaking, how could Petitioner retain an attorney when she was forced to plead guilty, in Judge Kathleen Satula court, to a horrendou… |
| 19-7309 | James Milton Dailey v. Florida | Florida | 2020-01-15 | Denied | Amici (5)Relisted (5)IFP | capital-punishment chambers-exception chambers-v-mississippi codefendant-confession due-process fifth-amendment hearsay hearsay-evidence innocence parole third-party-confession | Since being convicted of murder and sentenced to death in 1987, Petitioner James Dailey has steadfastly maintained his innocence. No eyewitness, physi… |
| 19-7246 | Keith Harris v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-01-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause crawford-rule crawford-v-washington cross-examination hearsay informants law-enforcement-testimony lay-opinion-testimony right-to-counsel sixth-amendment witness-testimony | whether the admission of law enforcement testimony that goes to whether a defendant was a participant in a conspiracy based on information provided by… |
| 19-7235 | Trevon Gross v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-01-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | daubert due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay prosecutorial-discretion | 1. Should the Government be able to convert an expert witness into a summary witness by supplying one of several possible accounting methodologies, an… |
| 19-7218 | Oscar Amezcua Cabrera v. California | California | 2020-01-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-principles crawford-precedent crawford-v-washington due-process dying-declaration-exception fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hearsay hearsay-exception hearsay-rule prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment testimonial-hearsay | 1. In the context of the dying declaration exception of the hearsay rule, where that declaration is otherwise testimonial hearsay within the ambit of … |
| 19-7174 | John H. Stewart v. William Honsal, as Public Administrator of Humboldt County, California, et al. | California | 2020-01-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | domestic-violence due-process evidence-admission fair-trial hearsay judicial-notice property-rights | 1. Was Petitioner's federal constitutional right to due process of law violated by an unfair trial in which the trial Judge ruled "that any documents … |
| 19-7183 | Malcolm William v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2020-01-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | causation criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-arrest-of-judgment due-process elements-of-crime evidence evidence-sufficiency hearsay insufficient-evidence malice motion-in-limine murder murder-charge new-trial sixth-amendment third-degree | 1. Whether Appellant should be awarded an arrest of judgement on the charge of Murder in the Third Degree, as *there is insufficient evidence to sust… |
| 19-6923 | Adrian Alaniz v. Scott Frauenheim, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2019-12-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause confrontation-clause-violation due-process harmless-error hearsay hearsay-evidence justifiable-homicide manslaughter prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct second-amendment self-defense standard-of-review | I. Where the evidence tended to favor a verdict of justifiable homicide or a lesser verdict of manslaughter, has Petitioner presented a "debatable " i… |
| 19-6901 | Alonso Barrera-Montes v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-12-10 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review confrontation-clause criminal-procedure department-of-state due-process evidence evidence-admission hearsay hearsay-rule jurisdiction jury-trial | I. THE COURT OF APPEALS CLEARLY ERRED IN UPHOLDING THE DISTRICT COURT'S RULING ADMITTING EVIDENCE AT DEFENDANT'S TRIAL WHICH VIOLATED BOTH THE HEARSAY… |
| 19-6830 | Don Emmery Wilson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-12-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment ambiguous-plea constitutional-rights criminal-matter cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus hearsay illegal-sentence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel obstruction-of-justice plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief profiling sentencing-guidelines | Was petitioner subjective to ineffective or deficient assistance of counsel in a criminal matter?1) Was petitioner subjective to cruel and unusual p… |
| 19-6763 | Anthony D. White v. Florida | Florida | 2019-11-26 | Denied | IFP | access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-procedure criminal-procedure due-process hearsay judicial-misconduct judicial-obstruction open-courts pro-se-litigation prosecutorial-misconduct standing state-officials | 1) It is constitutionally lawful to deny a pro se, obstructed by: State Officials, within the judicial structure and a party to the courts, such as De… |
| 19-6403 | Davin D. Crenshaw, aka Davon D. Crenshaw v. Texas | Texas | 2019-10-29 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-testimony hearsay mental-health sexual-assault victim-impact | Is it reasonably pertinent to diagnosisd or treat(mend)" when the stade ments made are clearly beyond the Scope of a SANE examination& Would this be h… |
| 19-6322 | Kelvin Miles v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-10-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alleyne alleyne-vs-united-states apprendi confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-destruction fair-trial hearsay sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-factors | 1. DID THE PRE-TRIAL DESTRUCTION OF EVIDENCE BY THE STATE DENY THE PETITIONER HIS RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS AND A FAIR TRIAL, THUS DENYING HIM THE ONLY EV… |
| 19-6303 | Jeffrey Jason Cooper v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-10-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause due-process evidence fifth-amendment hearsay sixth-amendment witness-testimony | Whether the lower Courts erred in allowing multiple hearsay statements of five alleged witnesses and other non-testifying witnesses whom did not testi… |
| 19-6294 | Alexander Mattei v. Sean Medeiros, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk | First Circuit | 2019-10-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process evidence expert-testimony hearsay sixth-amendment surrogate-analyst testimonial-evidence testimonial-hearsay trial-procedure | Whether there is ability to cross-examine a surrogate analyst at a jury trial who had used another's certified and testimonial DNA results ipse dixit,… |
| 19-6180 | Dannie Joe Farnum v. Scott Frauenheim, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2019-10-07 | Denied | IFP | child-competency confrontation-clause due-process fair-trial hearsay prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-confrontation right-to-fair-trial | 1. Whether the trial court violated a defendant's right to due process by admitting the prior statements of a 4 year old child without any inquiry int… |
| 19-6145 | Anthony Mark Smith, Jr. v. Virginia | Virginia | 2019-10-03 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility fair-trial hearsay precedent standard-of-proof victim-testimony | In light of the decisions in Jackson v Virginia, 443 U.S. 307 (1979), whether the trial court erred in finding the petitioner guilty beyond a reasonab… |
| 19-6150 | Chad M. Cutler v. Illinois | Illinois | 2019-10-03 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-rules expert-testimony hearsay hearsay-statements prosecutorial-misconduct standards-of-review supreme-court-conflict | 1. WILL THIS COURT ADDRESS THE CONFLICT BETWEEN THE ILLINOIS APPELLATE COURT AND BOTH THE ILLINOIS SUPREME COURT AND APPELLATE COURT OVER ILLINOIS RUL… |
| 19-5796 | Alfredo Beltran Leyva v. United States | District of Columbia | 2019-09-03 | Denied | Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split confrontation-clause constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process hearsay hearsay-evidence sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review | After pleading guilty to federal narcotics charges, Petitioner was sentenced to life imprisonment based entirely on unverified in-court testimony by a… |
| 19-5758 | Peter J. Hanson v. Wisconsin | Wisconsin | 2019-08-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence hearsay out-of-court-statements sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence | Whether out-of-court statements offered for purposes "other than their truth" ever implicate the Sixth Amendment right to Confrontation? |
| 19-5680 | Kenneth Taylor Curry v. Vancouver Housing Authority, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-08-22 | Denied | IFP | administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech goldberg-hearing hearsay housing-authority housing-choice-voucher reasonable-accommodation standing subject-matter-jurisdiction violence-threat | 1. A Vancouver Housing Authority Hearings Officer who is with out original subject matter jurisdiction is Ultra Vires and did not present Plaintiff,… |
| 19-5576 | William Taylor v. Richard Brown, Superintendent, Wabash Valley Correctional Facility | Seventh Circuit | 2019-08-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion boone-county constitutional-rights hearsay hearsay-testimony ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion lafler-v-cooper plea-bargaining prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-effective-counsel sentencing | I. WHETHER THE ADDITIONAL SIXTY (60) YEARS TAYLOR RECEIVED AT TRIAL WHEN ATTORNEY ALLEN LIDY FAILED TO COMMUNICATE THE BOONE COUNTY TWENTY (20) YEAR P… |
| 19-5310 | Rodolfo Cantu, Jr., aka Lil Rudy v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-07-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-right crawford-v-washington due-process fifth-amendment hearsay sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-proceedings sixth-amendment | Was the enhancement for a credible threat improper considering the district court's partial reliance on hearsay facts outside the record, which violat… |
| 19-5152 | Daryll Keith Shumake v. Virginia | Fourth Circuit | 2019-07-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights court-filing due-process evidence-suppression exculpatory-evidence hearsay ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-access legal-materials prison-litigation prisoner-rights prosecutorial-misconduct | Question not identified. |
| 19-5062 | Henry Lee Jones v. Tennessee | Tennessee | 2019-07-03 | Denied | IFP | capital-punishment confrontation-clause due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment Hearsay sixth-amendment witness-testimony | In this capital case, the Tennessee courts permitted the State to introduce a transcript of prior testimony of its "primary witness" rather than prese… |
| 18-9755 | Sammy Redi Araya v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-06-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | business-records due-process fourth-circuit-review hearsay hearsay-evidence identification insufficient-evidence perjury perjury-challenge standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence | I. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by failing to find that the District Court compromised Mr. Araya's Constitutional Rights to a Fair Jury Trial by f… |
| 18-9657 | Joseph Howard Davis v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-06-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split confrontation-clause criminal-evidence criminal-procedure drug-dealer drug-distribution due-process evidence fourth-circuit hearsay informant methamphetamine-offense non-testifying-witness second-circuit | I. Is an out-of-court statement by a non-testifying informant which identifies the defendant as a drug dealer hearsay, as in the Second Circuit, or no… |
| 18-1506 | Julian Martin v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-06-03 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | co-defendant-statement confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence fair-trial hearsay reliability-of-evidence right-to-confront-witnesses sixth-amendment | Whether the District Court's express reliance on an out-of-court statement of a non-testifying co-defendant as a basis for finding the defendant guilt… |
| 18A1253 | Niraj Prabhakar Patel v. Connecticut | Connecticut | 2019-06-03 | Presumed Complete | co-conspirator-statement confrontation-clause criminal-procedure hearsay sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence | Question not identified. | |
| 18-9470 | R. Jay Thompson v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2019-05-29 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause evidence hearsay hearsay-statements sane-nurse sexual-assault sixth-amendment testimonial testimonial-evidence | 1. Are hearsay statements made to a SANE nurse by a witness complaining of sexual assault, who is not available at trial because of death, testimonial… |
| 18-1425 | Naren Chaganti v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue | Eighth Circuit | 2019-05-14 | Denied | Response Waived | binding court-order hearsay hearsay-exception internal-revenue-code internal-revenue-code-162(f) litigation-sanctions parties standing stipulations tax-court-rule tax-court-rule-91-a-e tax-court-stipulations tax-cuts-and-jobs-act tax-cuts-and-jobs-act-2017 | 1) Whether stipulations filed under Tax Court Rule 91(a) & (e) are binding on the parties and the Tax Court. 2) Whether statements in a court order i… |
| 18-9202 | Edilberto Maso Diaz v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-05-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | co-conspirator co-conspirator-testimony confrontation-clause conspiracy criminal-conviction criminal-procedure cumulative-error due-process evidence evidentiary-sufficiency fifth-circuit-review hearsay hearsay-evidence hearsay-statements jury-instructions standard-of-review trial-procedure | 1) Did the Fifth Circuit err by affirming the district court admission of hearsay statements made by an unindicted co-conspirator over the objection o… |
| 18-8894 | Robert L. Mayfield v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-04-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | admissibility co-conspirator co-conspirator-statements co-conspirators confrontation-clause criminal-procedure evidence evidence-rule hearsay hearsay-exception out-of-court-statements rule-801 rule-801(d)(2)(e) | Whether admission of out-of-court statements made by Robert Mayfield's alleged co-conspirators violated the hearsay exception of Rule 801(d)(2)(E). |
| 18-1294 | Michael D. Lynch, et ux. v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-04-12 | Denied | Response Waived | business-records circuit-split due-process equal-protection erie-doctrine federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay hearsay-testimony national-mortgage-settlements summary-judgment supervisory-power | This case presents clear conflict on a pure question of law, regarding the Federal Rules of Evidence. According to the Eleventh Circuit, the hearsay s… |
| 18-8751 | William Len Rainey v. Texas | Texas | 2019-04-10 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights confrontation-clause discovery due-process hearsay sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements sexual-offenses | unconstitutional as appliedinatrialon Sept.21, 201 denying the Petitioner basc Duc rocess protections and affetihis substatialrights? AWe e investiga… |
| 18-8569 | Melvin Bonnell v. Ohio | Ohio | 2019-03-26 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review capital-punishment dna-evidence dna-testing due-process hearsay hearsay-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct | In 1988, before DNA was widely available as a forensic tool, Melvin Bonnell was convicted and sentenced to death. Trial testimony established that blo… |
| 18-1082 | Marianne Guzall v. City of Romulus, Michigan, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2019-02-21 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-court circuit-court-split civil-rights due-process evidence federal-rules-evidence free-speech hearsay motive-intent party-opponent sixth-circuit whistleblower-retaliation | This case involves the Petitioner's disclosure of corruption within the Defendant City of Romulus' Mayor's office and her unlawful termination shortly… |
| 18-1076 | In Re Robert K. Hudnall | 2019-02-19 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process hearsay hearsay-evidence jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction secret-hearing service-of-process standing subject-matter-jurisdiction | May a State Supreme Court that is granted only appellate jurisdiction as a matter of law by the state constitution: Exercise personal jurisdiction wi… | |
| 18-1046 | Virginia Callahan, et al. v. Pacific Cycle, Inc. | Fourth Circuit | 2019-02-11 | Denied | Response Waived | abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-court-split circuit-split civil-procedure de-novo-review evidence evidence-admissibility evidentiary-ruling hearsay hearsay-evidence judicial-discretion standard-of-review | When reviewing a district court's ruling to admit hearsay into evidence, should the Court of Appeals apply an abuse of discretion standard or engage i… |
| 18-7416 | Javier Solis v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-01-15 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause crawford-precedent crawford-v-washington hearsay hearsay-exception jury-instructions jury-interpretation police-testimony sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence truth-of-the-matter-asserted | A POLICE OFFICER TESTIFIED TO MATTERS OF WHICH HE DID NOT HAVE DIRECT KNOWLEDGE INCLUDING A BOLO BULLETIN. SHOULD "TESTIMONIAL" OR "NON-TESTIMONIAL" … |
| 18-7305 | William Hilts v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-01-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-indictment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury hearsay hearsay-testimony indictment witness-testimony | Whether a criminal defendant's right to be prosecuted on an indictment voted by a Grand Jury under the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constituti… |
| 18-7245 | Ronnie Junior Rodriguez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-01-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence false-declaration federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay legal-procedure perjury self-incrimination standing witness-testimony | Question not identified. |
| 18-7228 | Dashawn D. Brown v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-01-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency excited-utterance excited-utterances hearsay hearsay-evidence prior-identification residual-hearsay-exception sentencing sentencing-error supervised-release | 1. WHETHER THE SENTENCING COURT ERRED IN ADMITTING HEARSAY STATEMENTS AS EXCITED UTTERANCES. 2. WHETHER THE COURT ERRED IN ADMITTING HEARSAY STATEMEN… |
| 18-6791 | Benjamin Bland v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-11-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination evidence evidence-admissibility government-evidence harmless-error hearsay sixth-amendment social-security-administration trial-procedure | Whether petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to confront witnesses against him was violated where a spreadsheet (Government's Exhibit MD-313) created by… |
| 18-6750 | Rita Pultro v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2018-11-20 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP | codefendant codefendant-confession confession confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission hearsay redaction sixth-amendment | Should a court look beyond the four corners of a nontestifying codefendant's confession to determine if introduction of the confession violates the Co… |
| 18-6573 | Malik Farrad v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-11-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment authentication circuit-split corpus-delicti due-process facebook hearsay police-action social-media | Question I - The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals' lower standard of authentication by third parties for social media postings being what they are claim… |
| 18-6361 | Bob Lee Jones v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-10-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | due-process fair-trial harmless-error hearsay hearsay-exception involuntary-intoxication judicial-bias judicial-ethics present-sense-impression specific-intent standard-of-review | Whether the District Court's demonstration of bias against the defense in violation of the Judge's ethical canons and in front of the jury impeded Mr.… |
| 18-6183 | Reginald Lynch v. Hilton Hall, Jr., Warden, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-10-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure davis-v-washington dying-declaration hearsay ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington | DOES PETITIONER RECEIVE INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL WHEN TRIAL COUNSEL FAILS TO OBJECT TO TESTIMONY FROM A WITNESS REPEATING THE STATEMENTS OF A… |
| 18-246 | Mary L. Doherty, et al. v. Allstate Indemnity Company | Third Circuit | 2018-08-27 | Denied | anderson-v-liberty-lobby due-process expert-witness expert-witness-reports expert-witness-testimony fifth-amendment hearsay hearsay-evidence insurance-contract jury-trial mend-the-hold mend-the-hold-doctrine seventh-amendment summary-judgment | Whether the affirmed Rule 56 summary judgment decision is inconsistent with the standard set forth in Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc., 477 U.S. 242 (1… | |
| 18-5778 | Jon Duke DePriest v. Pam Bondi, Attorney General of Florida, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-08-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus hearsay sixth-amendment testimonial-hearsay | WHETHER PETITIONER'S SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO CONFRONT WITNESSES AGAINST HIM WERE VIOLATED WHEN THE PROSECUTOR PROVIDED TESTIMONIAL HEARSAY STATEMENTS… |
| 18-5646 | Syrus Martin v. Georgia | Georgia | 2018-08-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-hearsay child-testimony cross-examination evidence evidence-admissibility evidence-law hearsay hearsay-evidence hearsay-exceptions prior-statements statutory-interpretation testifying-witness witness-statements | Whether Georgia's child hearsay statutes or O.C.G.A. § 24-8-801 (d) (1) (A) control the permissible use of the prior statements of a testifying child. |
| 18-5581 | George Jenewicz v. New Jersey | New Jersey | 2018-08-14 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights compulsory-process confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process hearsay | Was not allowed to demonstrate to jury my state of mind due to intoxication in regards to the Force Syndrome when I allowed them into my residence wit… |
| 18-5407 | Mladen Mitrovic v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-08-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law civil-procedure confrontation-clause due-process equal-protection federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay right-to-present-defense standing statutory-interpretation witness-unavailability | WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERRONEOUSLY EXCLUDED THE STATEMENTS OF UNAVAILABLE WITNESSES, THEREBY DENYING PETITIONER THE RIGHT TO PRESENT A COMPLETE DE… |
| 18-5394 | Casey Peebles v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-07-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | coconspirator-statements confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-rule fair-trial federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay hearsay-exception sixth-amendment | In Petitioner's jury trial on federal drug offenses, the district court allowed a prosecution witness to testify to out-of-court statements made by a … |
| 18-5349 | Tyron Young v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-07-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause confrontation-right cross-examination due-process government-informant hearsay out-of-court-allegations reliability sentencing sentencing-hearing sixth-amendment unsworn-testimony | I. Whether the Sixth Amendment right to confront and cross-examine adverse witnesses applies at a sentencing hearing where the court bases the sentenc… |
| 18-5266 | Michael Ferguson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-07-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | advisory-guidelines arrest-records bare-arrest-records dismissed-charges due-process evidence-reliability hearsay hearsay-evidence reliability-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | (1) What standard of scrutiny does Due Process require courts to use when evaluating the reliability of evidence courts rely on to impose a sentence? … |
| 18-5189 | Glenvert Green v. United States | Third Circuit | 2018-07-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process fifth-amendment hearsay hearsay-evidence sentencing sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment victim-impact-statement victim-impact-statements | A. Do the Sixth and Fifth Amendments provide a criminal defendant with a right to cross-examine a government witness who testifies during a sentencing… |
| 18-5173 | Wilberth Medina Garcia v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-07-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure deportation due-process evidence-law hearsay immigration immigration-law sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence testimonial-hearsay | 1. Whether an immigration officer's formalized statements relating the fact of an alien's removal constitute testimonial hearsay for the purposes of a… |