informant-testimony

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-6987 Cornelius Mayberry v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP arrest-procedure fourth-amendment informant-testimony probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-search 1. Does a warrantless search and seizure of a closed container belonging to Petitioner violate the Fourth Amendment where there is not clear and unequ…
24-6241 Justin Michael Buehler v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure cross-examination evidence-limitation informant-testimony judicial-discretion witness-credibility Did the District Court abuse it's discretion by limiting the defendant's cross examination of the key witness and informant's criminal history?
23-7736 Clarence Mack v. Margaret Bradshaw, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-06-17 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254d2 brady-napue-claims brady-violation capital-punishment capital-trial habeas-corpus informant-testimony informant-witness napue-violation prosecutor-deal prosecutorial-misconduct unreasonable-determination Petitioner was tried in Ohio in 1991 for an aggravated murder committed during a carjacking allegedly perpetrated by two men. The State's entire case …
21-5856 Raymond LeQuan Gibbs v. Neil McDowell, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP bias confrontation-clause credibility criminal-trial cross-examination informant-testimony informant-witness sixth-amendment witness-credibility The Sixth Amendment's Confrontation Clause guarantees a criminal defendant a reasonable opportunity to cross-examine the witnesses against him. The br…
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…
18-9409 Fermin Guerrero v. Martin Biter, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-05-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation constitutional-errors criminal-trial-errors cumulative-error cumulative-prejudice due-process eyewitness-testimony habeas-review ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel informant-testimony strickland strickland-standard strickland-violation 1. Does the Constitution require a court on habeas review to assess cumulatively the prejudice caused by multiple constitutional errors at a criminal …
18-7886 Akeen Ocean v. United States First Circuit 2019-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment criminal-procedure deliberate-elicitation government-informant informant-testimony massiah-doctrine massiah-v-united-states post-indictment-rights right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Does 'deliberate elicitation' for purposes of Massiah v. United States, 377 U.S. 201 (1964), occur only in cases where the government has expressly di…
18-6169 Tracy L. Johnson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 924(c)-statute conspiracy criminal-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy drug-conspiracy drug-crimes due-process firearm-possession informant-testimony law-enforcement-conduct mandatory-minimum mandatory-sentencing sentencing sentencing-enhancement Whether a defendant should be subject to a mandatory 25 year consecutive 924(c) sentence for the same drug Conspiracy based on the facts that in a two…