lay-opinion-testimony

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A444 Bernard Kentrell Breeland, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-10-17 Presumed Complete bruen-framework confrontation-clause criminal-procedure felon-in-possession lay-opinion-testimony second-amendment Question not identified.
23-7605 Rodrigo Alvarez-Quinonez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-05-31 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-court-split federal-rule-of-evidence federal-rules-of-evidence harmless-error jury-factfinding-role law-enforcement-witness law-enforcement-witnesses lay-opinion-testimony percipient-knowledge witness-testimony May a law enforcement agent give lay opinion testimony under Federal Rule of Evidence 701 based on the agent's overall knowledge of an investigation, …
20-5328 Jeffrey Paul Giblin v. Washington Washington 2020-08-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence-rules eyewitness-testimony intent intent-standard lay-opinion-testimony A h FourteenAmenden Contittinauarnts of "Due Proces ofLaw and"equal protection of the laws" duly satistied for a Defendant accused of a crime involvin…
19-8456 Thomas Hopes v. United States Third Circuit 2020-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split essential-elements evidence-standard federal-rules-of-evidence helpfulness law-enforcement-witnesses lay-opinion-testimony personal-perception rule-701 usurping-jury-role The Third Circuit panel majority, deepening a mature circuit split regarding the foundational requirements of Federal Rule of Evidence 701, ruled that…
19-8449 Gregory Harris, Jr. v. United States Third Circuit 2020-05-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-prosecution evidentiary-standards federal-rules-of-evidence helpfulness law-enforcement-witnesses lay-opinion-testimony personal-perception usurping-jury-role The Third Circuit panel majority, deepening a mature circuit split regarding the foundational requirements of Federal Rule of Evidence 701, ruled that…
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…
18-6616 Maria I. Sanutti-Spencer v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2018-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-motive criminal-procedure decedent's-drug-addiction decedent's-drug-dealing decedent's-motive decedent's-physical-abuse defendant's-health-issues due-process evidence evidence-exclusion lay-opinion-testimony right-to-complete-defense right-to-present-defense trial-procedure witness-testimony Does excluding evidence of another's motive, of the decedent's drug addiction, drug dealing, his physical abuse of the defendant and the defendant's s…
18-5747 Javier Amador-Flores v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence evidence-law expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence law-enforcement lay-opinion lay-opinion-testimony lay-testimony specialized-knowledge witness-testimony When a law-enforcement agent expressly compares the events in a case to what is typical in other cases he has investigated, is his opinion based on "s…