| 25A945 |
Ramesh Sunny Balwani v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-02-24 |
Application |
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expert-testimony false-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence napue-violation prosecutorial-misconduct rule-702 |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6526 |
Johnny Ray Walls-Bey v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2026-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-rule due-process false-testimony napue-violation plea-agreement prosecutorial-misconduct |
(1) Where State Prosecutors knowingly used and failed
to correct false sworn testimony in connection with
the plea such as at the plea colloquy, in … |
| 25-5997 |
Tremane Wood v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2025-10-30 |
Denied |
Amici (4)IFP |
brady-violation capital-punishment judicial-bias napue-violation prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony |
1. Should this Court, after independently reviewing the factual record, grant Mr. Wood a new trial based on the Napue violation at his trial, as it di… |
| 25-5682 |
Damon Neal Dunbar, Jr. v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2025-09-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence brady-violation constitutional-error jury-evidence napue-violation prosecutorial-misconduct |
1. whether the Oklahoma court of criminal appeals erred in rejecting confessed constitutional
errors under Brady and Napue and giving not weight to t… |
| 24-5170 |
Eric Lee Smith v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-07-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process false-testimony government-misconduct napue-violation prosecutorial-misconduct |
Where the Assistant United States Attorney's representing the Government violates a standard announced in Napue v. Illinois by gaining a criminal conv… |
| 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 … |
| 23-1013 |
Dalibor Kabov and Berry Kabov v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-03-15 |
Denied |
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brady-violation brady-violations drug-trafficking invited-error invited-error-doctrine jury-instructions napue-violation napue-violations ruan-v-united-states section-841 state-of-mind |
1. Whether this Court should grant, vacate, and remand as to Petitioners' drug distribution convictions in light of Ruan, or in the alternative, grant… |
| 22-5736 |
Ernesto Salgado Martinez v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-10-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
buck-davis buck-v-davis discovery due-process extraordinary-circumstances gonzalez-crosby gonzalez-v-crosby napue-v-illinois napue-violation rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b6 |
I.
Whether the district court abused its discretion by denying
Martinez's Rule 60(b)(6) request to reopen the judgment in order
to compel discovery wh… |
| 22-5319 |
Gary Lee Rollins v. Donnie Ames, Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex |
West Virginia |
2022-08-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process immunity-agreement napue-v-illinois napue-violation prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility |
Under the Due Process Clause of the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment, does a court reviewing a criminal defendant's claims under Brady v. Maryland a… |
| 22-5048 |
George A. Pilola v. Craig Koenig, Acting Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-07-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process exculpation fingerprint fingerprint-evidence napue-v-illinois napue-violation ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-review prosecutorial-misconduct |
1) The failure of the prosecution to turn over the fingerprint showing no MAKE to Pilola was a violation of Brady v. Maryland;
2) The untruthfulness … |
| 21-7592 |
Detrick Deroven v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-04-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus Napue-v-Illinois napue-violation schlup-claim Schlup-v-Delo substantive-claim XIV-Amendment |
Whether the Petitioner made a substantive claim of actual innocence to sustain a Schlup v. Delo or Napue v. Illinois violation under the XIV Amendment… |
| 21-6475 |
Mark Hollingsworth v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2021-12-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation closing-argument criminal-procedure due-process false-testimony jury-argument napue-v-illinois napue-violation prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-fair-trial |
Did the Maryland State Courts err in finding that the Prosecutor did not violate Napue v. Illinois, 360 U.S. 264 (1959) when the Prosecutor argued to … |
| 21-6493 |
Jarrett Alvin Kinley v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2021-12-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process false-evidence false-testimony napue-v-illinois napue-violation polygraph polygraph-testimony prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility |
Petitioner was subject to a pretrial polygraph by his bondsman for "risk assessment" purposes as a condition of his bond. The polygraph examiner testi… |
| 20-8001 |
In Re Gerald Ross Pizzuto, Jr. |
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2021-05-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
and the presentation of false testimony denying s constitutes a violation of Brady and Napue warran brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process evidence-suppression extraordinary-writ false-testimony habeas-corpus judicial-misconduct napue-v-illinois napue-violation prosecutorial-misconduct witness-tampering |
1. As noted by Justice Betty Fletcher in her dissenting opinion, "[w]hen faced with the corruption of our legal system, we must start over. The first … |
| 20-6570 |
Brandon Bernard v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-disclosure brady-violation death-penalty gang-affiliation government-misconduct napue-claim napue-violation procedural-default section-2255 successive-habeas successive-petition |
Where government action prevented Petitioner from bringing his claims under Brady and Napue in his initial § 2255 motion, should a second-in-time moti… |
| 19-7228 |
Jerry Carter v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
chain-of-custody confidential-informant confrontation-clause criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-8th-amendment-confrontation-cla criminal-procedure-ineffective-assistance-of-couns eighth-circuit evidence harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel napue-violation strickland-standard Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in rejecting the |
Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred by
"We also find no abuse of discretion in entering the decision
the admission, with a limiting ins… |
| 18-492 |
David Souza v. California |
California |
2018-10-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
berger-standard berger-v-united-states constitutional-rights due-process false-testimony fourteenth-amendment napue-v-illinois napue-violation preliminary-hearing pretrial-proceedings prosecutorial-misconduct |
Does it violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, the holding in Berger v. United States, 295 U.S.… |
| 18-5005 |
Lawrence Dawkins v. Stewart Eckert, Superintendent, Wende Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation conflict-between-circuits due-process fair-trial material-evidence napue-giglio napue-violation Napue/Giglio-violation suppression-of-evidence |
Is there a reasonable probability that had the Brady and Napue/Giglio violation been disclosed, the outcome of the trial would have been different?
W… |