law-enforcement-testimony
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-6094 | Chimene Hamilton Onyeri v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-11-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing law-enforcement-testimony rico-conspiracy sixth-amendment trial-strategy | I. Should a writ of certiorari be granted to determine whether a defendant is denied his Sixth Amendment right to conflict-free counsel where trial co… |
| 25-6092 | Olegario Lares-De La Rosa v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-11-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence-interpretation federal-rules-of-evidence law-enforcement-testimony lay-opinion | Whether Federal Rule of Evidence 701 permits a law enforcement officer to provide a lay opinion about the meaning of ordinary language used in a recor… |
| 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… |
| 24-6470 | Alan E. Sanchez v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-02-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights court-procedure deliberate-falsity fourth-amendment judicial-review law-enforcement-testimony | Whether a district court and appellate court can declare deliberate false testimony of law enforcement, a mistake, irrelevant, and ignore it, when ana… |
| 23-5042 | Daniel Robinson v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-07-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process federal-rule-of-evidence fifth-amendment grand-jury law-enforcement-testimony opinion-evidence prosecutorial-overreach | 1. Whether this Court's guidance on constructive amendments in conspiracy cases is necessary to protect criminal defendants' Fifth Amendment rights. … |
| 22-5072 | Basil Bey v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-07-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process evidence-rule-701 evidentiary-standards federal-rules-of-evidence law-enforcement-testimony opinion-evidence uniform-standards witness-testimony | 1. Whether this Court should set limits on what law enforcement testimony should be admitted as opinion evidence under Federal Rule of Evidence 701. |
| 22-5055 | Amin Wadley, aka Jamil Abdul Amin White v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-07-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-trial-procedure evidence-rules evidentiary-standards federal-rules-of-evidence law-enforcement law-enforcement-testimony lay-witness lay-witness-testimony opinion-evidence opinion-testimony | 1. Whether this Court should set limits on what law enforcement testimony should be admitted as opinion evidence under Federal Rule of Evidence 701. |
| 21-6100 | Rodrigo Martinez-Mendoza v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-10-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review clear-error clear-error-standard due-process factual-findings immigration immigration-law law-enforcement-testimony public-confidence standard-of-review | The "Clear Error" standard of review has been criticized as "elastic, capacious, malleable, and above all variable." Edward H. Cooper, Civil Rule 50(A… |
| 20-8404 | Andre Brown and Anthony Wilson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-06-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split coded-language drug-jargon expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence law-enforcement-testimony lay-witness rule-701 | Whether government agents can testify solely as lay witnesses under Rule 701 of the Federal Rules of Evidence, when they were not parties to the conve… |
| 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 … |
| 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… |
| 19-6491 | Matthew Shaffer v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-11-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-4th-amendment-search-and-seizur drug-conspiracy due-process evidence-suppression evidentiary-hearing exclusionary-rule firearms-expert-testimony-drug-activity law-enforcement-testimony multiple-conspiracies-sentencing-enhancements rule-29-motion-sufficiency-of-evidence search-warrant sentencing-enhancement standing | 1. THE TRIAL COURT ERRED IN FAILING TO CONDUCT AN EVIDENTIARY HEARING CONCERNING THE AFFIDAVIT RELIED UPON IN OBTAINING THE SEARCH WARRANT AND FURTHER… |
| 18-9675 | Tommy Dean Bullcoming v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-06-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights credibility-determination de-novo-review due-process evidence law-enforcement-testimony qualified-immunity scott-v-harris standard-of-review summary-judgment video-evidence | As recognized in Scott v. Harris, 550 U.S. 372 (2007), should a video recording of the actual events that clearly contradicts the sworn testimony of a… |
| 18-8216 | Zavia L. Johnson v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-03-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review clearly-erroneous clearly-erroneous-standard law-enforcement-officer law-enforcement-testimony scott-v-harris standard-of-review testimony video-evidence videotape videotape-evidence | Does a federal courts of appeals misapply the clearly erroneous standard of review when it upholds a district court's crediting of a law enforcement o… |
| 18-7576 | Jordaan Stanly Creque v. Alabama | Alabama | 2019-01-25 | Denied | IFP | capital-murder constitutional-rights credibility death-penalty due-process law-enforcement-testimony law-enforcement-witness reliable-process summation summation-and-bolstering trial-by-jury witness-credibility | Where a law enforcement witness who has been seated at counsel table throughout trial gives testimony bolstering other witnesses' credibility and summ… |
| 18-7010 | Jermaine Mitchell v. United States | First Circuit | 2018-12-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause expert-testimony expert-witness forensic-evidence lab-reports law-enforcement-testimony lay-testimony narcotics narcotics-testimony scientific-evidence sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence | Whether law enforcement (lay) testimonies about the narcotics character of certain substances may be shined with the expert testimonial gloss of unpro… |
| 18-6542 | Mauricio Licea v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-11-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure dual-role due-process evidence expert-testimony expert-witness jury-instruction jury-instructions law-enforcement law-enforcement-testimony lay-witness trial-procedure | Whether district courts must give a dual-purpose jury instruction after a law enforcement officer testifies as both an expert and a percipient witness… |
| 18-5286 | Odere Suleitopa v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-07-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court-conflict circuit-split civil-procedure evidence evidence-admissibility federal-rule-of-evidence-701 federal-rules-of-evidence law-enforcement law-enforcement-officer-testimony law-enforcement-testimony lay-witness-testimony opinion-testimony personal-knowledge personal-knowledge-requirement witness-testimony | Federal Rule of Evidence 701 states that a lay witness's opinion testimony must be rationally based on the witness's perception. The Circuits have lon… |