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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23-5156 | Markerrion D'Shon Allison v. Texas | Texas | 2023-07-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-error expert-testimony informant out-of-court-statement personal-knowledge testimonial-evidence witness-confrontation | Whether a police officer's testimony relating an unidentified informant's outof-court statement regarding the meaning of the phrase "pulling a Carlos"… |
| 22-7554 | Samuel Terraye Windom v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-05-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-buy drug-evidence fourth-amendment informant nexus nexus-requirement probable-cause search-warrant | Whether a controlled drug transaction that takes place away from a suspect's home is sufficient to establish a nexus between the offense and the suspe… |
| 22-7222 | Ray Dansby v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction | Eighth Circuit | 2023-04-05 | Denied | IFP | bias confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process informant jailhouse-informant witness-impeachment | To secure Ray Dansby's conviction and death sentence, the State relied heavily on the testimony of a jailhouse informant to whom Dansby purportedly co… |
| 22-6003 | Whistleblower 7107-16W v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue | District of Columbia | 2022-11-07 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights confidential-sources due-process informant irs-informant-award judicial-review open-courts open-courts-doctrine plausibility-standard spending-clause whistleblower whistleblower-anonymity | Whether, contrary to the US Supreme Court's clear affirmation of the 'strict plausibility' pleading standard, the US Federal Courts nevertheless retai… |
| 21-7287 | Ivan Cruz-Rivera v. United States | First Circuit | 2022-03-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment criminal-procedure fourth-amendment informant informant-tip law-enforcement police-officer probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure | Whether It Is Not Necessary To Evaluate The Basis Of Knowledge Underlying An Informant's Tip If The Informant Is A Police Officer. |
| 20-7990 | Jose Meza v. Stuart Sherman, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2021-05-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bruton-v-united-states co-defendant-statements co-defendants confrontation-clause constitutional-procedure crawford-v-washington criminal-evidence informant ninth-circuit-interpretation testimonial testimonial-statements | 1. Did the Ninth Circuit err in holding that Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36 (2004) effectively and silently overruled Bruton v. United States, 39… |
| 20-825 | Christopher Brewer v. Teresa Hooks, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-12-18 | Denied | 4th-amendment causal-connection fourth-amendment informant informant-testimony probable-cause qualified-immunity search-warrant section-1983 | 1. Whether probable cause or arguable probable cause exists to seek a search warrant where an officer relies upon an informant who turns himself in, a… | |
| 19-7636 | Gerald W. Eiland v. United States | District of Columbia | 2020-02-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment auto-shop-business certificate-of-appealability effective-assistance-counsel expert-testimony franks-challenge ineffective-assistance-of-counsel informant pen-register section-2255 sixth-amendment wiretap-challenge wiretaps | 1. Did the district court abuse its discretion in denying Eiland's motion Pursuant to 28 USC Section 2255 without a hearing? 2. Was Eiland denied eff… |
| 18-9823 | Freddie Lee Morris v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-06-27 | Denied | IFP | coerced-confession criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus informant involuntary-plea manifest-injustice paid-informant procedural-grounds right-to-counsel sixth-amendment | WHETHER THE STATE OF FLORIDA VIOLATED PETITIONER'S SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO THE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL, WHEN POLICE INSERTED A PAID INFORMANT IN PETITI… |
| 18-9748 | George Hernandez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-06-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confidential-informant criminal-procedure discovery due-process fair-trial guilty-plea informant plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentencing-disclosure withdrawal-of-plea | GIVEN GOVERNMENT DISCOVERY DISCLOSURE PRACTICES RELATING TO ITS USE OF CONFIDENTIAL INFORMANTS, DOES THE "FAIR AND JUST REASON" STANDARD FOR WITHDRAWA… |
| 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… |
| 18-9097 | Freddie L. Morris v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-05-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | coerced-confession criminal-investigation fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus informant involuntary-plea jail-cell right-to-counsel sixth-amendment | WHETHER THE STATE OF FLORIDA VIOLATED PETITIONER'S SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO THE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL, WHEN POLICE INSERTED A PAID INFORMANT IN PETITI… |
| 18-623 | Katrina Walker v. Carl Weatherspoon, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2018-11-14 | Denied | Response Waived | 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment illinois-v-gates informant informant-tip probable-cause qualified-immunity search-warrant section-1983 seventh-circuit | May a police officer, who secures a search warrant on the uncorroborated tip of a first-time informant by withholding from the issuing judge facts tha… |
| 18-5912 | Robert Kimmell v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-09-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-defense criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-disclosure drug-offense due-process fair-trial informant informant-disclosure jury-instructions lesser-included-offense relevance verdict-form witness-disclosure | Did Kimmell establish that disclosure of the informant was relevant and helpful to his defense, or essential to a fair determination of his cause? Di… |