hearsay-evidence
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25A705 | Charles Albert Massey v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Fourth Circuit | 2025-12-17 | Application | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination hearsay-evidence preliminary-hearing sixth-amendment | Question not identified. | |
| 25-6168 | Carl Rose v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-11-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process hearsay-evidence revocation-hearing supervised-release | Whether the Due Process Clause and Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 32.1(b)(2)(C) require a district court, before admitting hearsay at a supervised… |
| 25-288 | Vinaykumar Patel v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-09-11 | Denied | Response Waived | confrontation-clause federal-rules-of-evidence fifth-amendment hearsay-evidence law-enforcement-testimony sixth-amendment | 1. Whether the introduction of speculative lay opinion by a law enforcement officer, asserting a staged robbery without personal knowledge or expert… |
| 25-5171 | Reginald Hitchcock v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-07-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing hearsay-evidence sixth-amendment | 1. whether The Person's Who Supplied The Hearsay Statement That Amounted to Probable Cause En A Affidavit ov Search Warrant Need To Be Reliable © 2. … |
| 25-5048 | Jeremy Wayne Holt v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2025-07-08 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure discovery-violation due-process hearsay-evidence sixth-amendment speedy-trial | 1. Does a delay of seven years from alleged criminal act to trial trigger the presumption of prejudice under Doggett v. United States, 505 U.S. 647 (1… |
| 24-7329 | Nicco-Kawon Pledger v. Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 2025-05-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | due-process expert-testimony hearsay-evidence ineffective-assistance jury-instructions trial-procedure | Counsel ///( <S\S5'/J'/c«ce boher? 4o cW|<nje oP JunK Sew UM &>rnis Ae [>n'™y ^Vi'dtnce. of ^vil-k H-ere, Counsel Q<u(ed +o ck<x//<?^e -fhe. ■deSp/rna… |
| 24-7054 | Oscar J. Martinez-Hernandez v. United States | First Circuit | 2025-04-22 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split confrontation-clause due-process federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay-evidence sixth-amendment | I. WHETHER ADMISSION OF UNCORROBORATED HEARSAY UNDER FEDERAL RULE OF EVIDENCE 801(D)(2)(E), WITHOUT INDEPENDENT PROOF OF A CONSPIRACY OR EXTRINSIC COR… |
| 24-6990 | Abdul Kilgore v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-04-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause hearsay-evidence procedural-reasonableness sentencing sixth-amendment supervised-release | 1. Whether the district court's reliance on hearsay evidence, including a complaining witness's video statement and photographic evidence, in a superv… |
| 24-6877 | Amanda M. v. Illinois | Illinois | 2025-03-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof child-custody constitutional-rights due-process hearsay-evidence parental-rights | Can a state terminate a parent's constitutional right to raise her child based solely on hearsay evidence, where the state's burden of proof at a fitn… |
| 24-6849 | Terrance Deandre Ellison v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-03-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cross-examination evidentiary-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay-evidence recent-fabrication witness-credibility | Whether Federal Rule of Evidence 801(d)(1)(B)(i) permits introduction of hearsay purportedly to rebut a charge of recent fabrication made during cross… |
| 24-6029 | Glenna Duram v. Jeremy Howard, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2024-11-25 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process hearsay-evidence ineffective-assistance trial-procedure | I. Whether the trial court violated Glenna Mary Duram's constitutional protections of due process by admitting unfairly prejudicial hearsay evidence f… |
| 24-5998 | Carlos Tonyo Cabrera v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Florida | 2024-11-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | due-process hearsay-evidence judicial-error prior-convictions procedural-due-process sentencing-scoresheet | I. WHETHER A COURT OF COMPETENT JURISDICTION VIOLATED PETITIONER'S DUE PROCESS RIGHT WHEN IT IMPOSED LIFE SENTENCES BASED ON AN ERRONEOUS SCORESHEET T… |
| 24-5411 | Mario Chavez v. Carlos Lazarin, Warden, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2024-08-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process hearsay-evidence sixth-amendment | CWc\ dee^ved \V ^nx.&£M *Vo " Woo/e, W avooVWercicty (Mx{ ^Ejcjt\ V ^©V\ wJdt gk (xw^reWstve <taW-XA\'cyv. oV'WW aac>uac\\ , ydW^A- vV dW'f (AAdvA.^… |
| 23-7548 | In Re Kinley MacDonald | 2024-05-23 | Denied | 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… | |
| 23-7549 | In Re Kinley MacDonald | 2024-05-23 | Denied | 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… | |
| 23-1181 | Gail M. Ritchey v. Ohio | Ohio | 2024-05-01 | Denied | Amici (1) | autopsy-report confrontation-clause criminal-investigation criminal-procedure evidence hearsay-evidence medical-examiner medical-examiner-testimony sixth-amendment | Does the admission of an autopsy report and testimony from a doctor who neither participated in the autopsy nor prepared the report violate the Sixth … |
| 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… |
| 23A879 | C. B., Father v. Vermont Department for Children and Families | Vermont | 2024-04-03 | Presumed Complete | child-witnesses due-process hearsay-evidence parental-rights procedural-safeguards termination-of-rights | Question not identified. | |
| 23A847 | Richard Alan Costanzo v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-03-19 | Presumed Complete | abuse-of-discretion confrontation-rights criminal-procedure federal-rule hearsay-evidence probation-revocation | Question not identified. | |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 23A612 | Thurmond Allen v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2024-01-03 | Presumed Complete | firearm-possession fourth-amendment hearsay-evidence probable-cause search-warrant warrantless-search | Question not identified. | |
| 23-505 | Garrett A. Arrowood v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-11-14 | Denied | Response Waived | appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause crawford-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-law habeas-corpus hearsay-evidence | I. WHETHER THE RECORD SUPPORTS THE COURT'S CONCLUSION THAT THE STATE COURT HEARING REGARDING THE INADMISSIBLE HEARSAY (CRAWFORD VIOLATION) DID NOT VIO… |
| 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… |
| 23A358 | Ohio v. William Johnson | Ohio | 2023-10-20 | Presumed Complete | 911-call confrontation-clause domestic-violence emergency-exception hearsay-evidence testimonial-statement | Question not identified. | |
| 23-5536 | Kinley MacDonald v. Maine | First Circuit | 2023-09-07 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | child-protection child-welfare civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process family-law hearsay-evidence judicial-discretion standing | Before the Court is a matter involving court-based Children, Placed into "ostern Care by mere hearsay) Causing: Itrepoir—adle harm. Th mother suffered… |
| 23-5509 | Vincent D. White, Jr. v. Michael Phillips, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2023-09-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | adverse-effect concurrent-conflict conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus hearsay-evidence ineffective-assistance 23-5508" mickens-standard post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment state-court trial-counsel Whether a state court's denial of post-conviction | 1. Whether a criminal-defense attorney, under indictment on charges of rape, kidnapping, and sexual assault, has a conflict of interest when simultane… |
| 23-5508 | In Re Kinley MacDonald | 2023-09-01 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | child-welfare civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-law hearsay-evidence judicial-misconduct post-conviction-relief standing state-court-review systemic-judicial-misconduct | 1. Can a state court open and remove children in a "protective custody" case based solely on hearsay accusations prohibited by state statute, in secre… | |
| 23-5366 | Ricky Alan Deephouse v. Wyoming | Wyoming | 2023-08-16 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-procedure due-process hearsay-evidence illegal-opinion-issuance judicial-review rule-of-law single-justice-opinion state-court-procedure state-power-abuse state-supreme-court wyoming-rules-of-evidence | 1. DID THE STATE SUPREME COURT IN THIS MATTER ABUSE ITS POWER? 2. DID THE STATE SUPREME COURT IN THIS MATTER MISUSE ITS POWER? 3. DID THE STATE SUPR… |
| 23-5184 | Kinley MacDonald v. Lea-Anne Sutton, Judge, District Court of Maine, et al. | First Circuit | 2023-07-25 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appellate-review child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-law family-rights hearsay-evidence judicial-misconduct jurisdiction standing | 1) Can a trial court open and remove children in protective custody case based solely on hearsay (because prohibited by State Statute) in secrete and … |
| 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? |
| 22-6166 | 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… |
| 22-5469 | 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… |
| 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… |
| 21-1264 | Larry Klayman v. Judicial Watch, Inc., et al. | District of Columbia | 2022-03-18 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split consumer-confusion hearsay-evidence lanham-act likelihood-of-confusion non-disparagement precedent trademark-infringement trademark-law | 1. Did the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit err by failing to apply the "appreciable number of consumers" standard to the "l… |
| 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… |
| 21-6635 | 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… |
| 21-6375 | Thomas Dudney v. Jeff Macomber, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2021-11-22 | Denied | IFP | certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause due-process exculpatory-evidence hearsay-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel perjury sixth-amendment | Thomas Dudney's conviction when actually innocent highlights a national issue: the unacceptably high rate of such convictions, reflected in numerous e… |
| 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… |
| 21-6163 | Gerard M. Lynch 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 confrontation-clause confrontation-rights credibility-of-witnesses due-process hearsay-evidence occupational-debarment state-agency worker-rights | The Respondent "Justice Center," a New York State agency, has a standard practice of routinely allowing uncorroborated hearsay evidence —for example, … |
| 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 … |
| 21-6090 | Olry Maurival v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-10-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy crawford-confrontation criminal-procedure evidence-sufficiency false-tax-return false-tax-returns hearsay-evidence sufficiency-of-evidence tax-fraud | I. WHETHER THE VERDICT OF GUILT WAS SUPPORTED BY SUFFCIENT EVIDENCE TO SUSTAIN A CONVICTION, AND THE EVIDENCE, VIEWED IN A LIGHT MOST FAVORABLE TO THE… |
| 21-5941 | Angela Michelle Morelli v. Joshua B. Hyman, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-10-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights domestic-violence due-process federal-jurisdiction hearsay-evidence life-liberty-property procedural-hearing victim-protection | 1. Why are Womens ' Constitutional Rights being violated under the 14th Amendment, for both procedural Due Process and Life, Liberty and Property, le… |
| 21-5366 | Abram K. Sollman v. Nebraska | Nebraska | 2021-08-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hearsay-evidence witness-testimony | I. WHETHER OR NOT THE NEBRASKA COURTS RELIANCE ON A WITNESS STATEMENTS (Sean Nowling) INDUCED THE STATE'S (Respondent) CASE-IN-CHIEF VIA ERRONEOUS OR … |
| 21-21 | Caroline Ross v. Judson Independent School District | Fifth Circuit | 2021-07-08 | Denied | administrative-law cross-examination due-process fourteenth-amendment hearsay-evidence non-renewal procedural-rules school-board school-board-non-renewal state-law-violation | 1. Petitioner was deprived of due process when the tribunals below materially misapprehended the record. They held that there was no objection to admi… | |
| 20-8416 | Raul Ramos v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-06-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process hearsay-evidence sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment united-states-v-haymond | Whether the district court's reliance on hearsay evidence to impose a guideline sentence of life violates Ramos's right to confront and cross-examine … |
| 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… |
| 20-8151 | 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 … |
| 20-7556 | Terrence A. McKnight v. R. Johnson, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-03-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 9th-circuit appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus harmless-error hearsay-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct standards-of-review | 1. Under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) (1)& (2), did the California Court of Appeal unreasonably determine that the established prosecutorial misconduct in rely… |
| 20-7531 | Baidehi L. Mukherjee v. The Childrens Mercy Hospital | Eighth Circuit | 2021-03-23 | Denied | IFP | after-acquired-evidence appellate-review civil-procedure due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection hearsay-evidence jury-instructions standard-of-review summary-judgment | 1. Should the violation of Standard of Review for Summary Judgment be allowed to stand uncorrected? 2. Should the violation of Federal Rules of Civil… |
| 20-7443 | Rotimi Salu, et al. v. Denise Miranda, et al. | Second Circuit | 2021-03-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment administrative-procedure administrative-review confrontation-clause due-process employment-termination healthcare-workers hearsay-evidence state-agency state-agency-adjudication | 1. By declining inquiry into a State agency's denial of due process to accused healthcare workers (e.g., the Petitioners), but instead deferring to th… |
| 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… |
| 20-6141 | David William Smith v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-10-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof confrontation-clause evidence-rule-701 expert-testimony hearsay-evidence law-enforcement-testimony lay-opinion professional-experience rule-701 rule-702 testimonial-hearsay | This Petition will permit the Court to resolve two profound splits among the federal courts of appeals. The first circuit split concerns when, if at … |
| 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… |
| 20-5183 | Keith Hoglund v. Ron Neal, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2020-07-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-amendments constitutional-rights due-process expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment harmless-error hearsay-evidence procedural-rights sixth-amendment | Issue I: Whether the lower court(s) violated Keith Hoglund 's substantive and procedural due process rights by their holding(s) that there was no rea… |
| 19-1474 | Tyler Herndon v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2020-07-08 | Denied | Response Waived | collateral-order-doctrine criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-relief hearsay-evidence right-to-counsel sixth-amendment | A. Whether the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's refusal to review the Trial Court's Denial Order on a Petition for Habeas Corpus Relief, in a case where a… |
| 19-8763 | James Delglyn v. Paulino Barros, et al. | Wisconsin | 2020-06-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof credit-report credit-reporting debt-verification hearsay-evidence judicial-procedure state-statutes wisconsin-law wisconsin-supreme-court | 1. Is it reasonable to demand verification of an alleged debt in the form of a written contract, evidence of a transaction or a sworn statement from a… |
| 19-8454 | Michael Boykin v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida, Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-05-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | affidavit certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure cumulative-evidence declaration hearsay-evidence in-forma-pauperis ineffective-assistance martinez-rule poverty procedural-default redress | 1. Whether the circuit court erred by denying a certificate of appealabilit y for an ineffective assistance claim because the omitted evidence was ina… |
| 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 … |
| 19-8020 | 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 … |
| 19-7511 | Frank Deville, et ux. v. Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, et al. | California | 2020-01-31 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure concealing-material-facts conflict-of-law constitutional-rights due-process federal-law fraud-particularity hearsay-evidence judicial-procedure legal-standards liberal-amendment material-facts standing | iaSSEsSsSHSSSt iS thaUegal?^ ^ there should be liberal ability to amend (Roland v. Christian, 69 Cal. 2d 108, 112) . ■ ,not what we believe it to be. … |
| 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… |
| 19-7302 | 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… |
| 19-6923 | 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… |
| 19-6384 | Dieugrand Jacques v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-10-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process fabricated-evidence false-evidence hearsay-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review post-conviction-relief right-to-appeal sex-offender-registration wrongful-conviction | 1. Why thousands of men and women like myself ;in this great country should continue to be kept illegally in prison only because a lawyer presented a… |
| 19-394 | Sergio Mejia-Duarte v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-09-24 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-procedure due-process extradition-treaty fair-trial federal-rules-of-evidence fre-403 fre-404(b) hearsay-evidence international-extradition international-law treaty unrelated-murder | I. WHETHER A CRUCIAL MANDATE OF THE INTERNATIONAL EXTRADITION TREATY BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND HONDURAS WAS VIOLATED WHEN THE PROSECUTION AT TRIAL… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 18-9202 | 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… |
| 18-1275 | Xiaohua Huang v. Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. | Federal Circuit | 2019-04-05 | Rehearing | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-procedure-fraud-on-the-court civil-rights discovery due-process fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court hearsay-evidence judicial-misconduct patent patent-infringement sanctions standing summary-judgment | As pointed out by District Judge J. Owen Forrester in Sklar v. Clough, 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 49248 (N.D. Ga. July 6, 2007), "a district court may cons… |
| 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… |
| 18-1076 | 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… |
| 18-7228 | 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… |
| 18-7220 | Pashtoon Farooqi v. California | California | 2019-01-03 | Denied | IFP | bill-of-attainder civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process hearsay-evidence jury-instruction mental-disorder sexually-violent-predator vagueness | Does the California version of its Sexually Violent Predators Act (SVPA) violate the precedents of this Court, and is it therefore unconstitutional? … |
| 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… | |
| 18-5646 | 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. |
| 18-5433 | Helen Atkins v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-08-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | closing-argument constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial hearsay-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-testify sixth-amendment speedy-trial | 1. WAS THE PETITIONER DENIED HER RIGHT TO A FAIR TRIAL WHEN THE TRIAL COURT OVERRULED HER OBJECTION TO PROSECUTOR'S CLOSING ARGUMENT AND WAS THE PETIT… |
| 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… |