lay-testimony
8 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23-5767 | Fidel Flores v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2023-10-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | complainant-credibility credibility-determination expert-testimony harmless-error lay-testimony sixth-amendment strickland-prejudice strickland-standard | 1. Did the Fifth Circuit err in its review of Petitioner's Sixth Amendment claim – and its evaluation of Strickland prejudice – when it determined tha… |
| 22-7747 | Samuel Wilson, III v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-06-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure drug-slang evidence expert-testimony law-enforcement lay-testimony lay-witness | Some, but not all, circuits permit a law enforcement agent who is not designated as an expert to testify as a lay witness about drug slang, jargon or … |
| 22-382 | Yolanda Hamilton v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-10-24 | Denied | Response Waived | claims-extrapolation criminal-liability expert-testimony extrapolation lay-testimony medical-necessity medicare-fraud | 1. Medicare reimburses healthcare providers who provide home-health services to qualifying Medicare patients. Congress requires a physician to certify… |
| 19-6819 | Frankie Ovies v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-12-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cell-phone-evidence cell-phones circuit-split criminal-procedure digital-evidence digital-forensics expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence forensic-technology lay-testimony | 1. Whether using Cellebrite technology to download forensic digital evidence from a cell phone requires specialized or technical knowledge so that the… |
| 19-5335 | Patrick Brunette v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs | Federal Circuit | 2019-07-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-procedure disability-rating due-process effective-date lay-testimony material-evidence medical-evidence medical-records prescribed-bedrest reconsideration reopening-claims service-connected-disabilities veterans-affairs veterans-affairs-regulations veterans-claims | 1. Whether the VA incorrectly discharged its responsibilities under 38 C.F.R. Section 3.156(c) with respect to taking the actions required upon reopen… |
| 18-8600 | Tony McLeod v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cell-phones circuit-split criminal-evidence digital-forensics expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence fourth-amendment internet-anonymity lay-testimony mens-rea rule-702 sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether using Cellebrite technology to download forensic digital evidence from a cell phone requires specialized or technical knowledge so that the… |
| 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… |
| 18-5747 | 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… |