perjured-testimony
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6072 | William Douglas Marcum v. Merit Systems Protection Board | Federal Circuit | 2025-11-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | discovery-denial due-process exculpatory-evidence fifth-amendment merit-systems-protection-board perjured-testimony | 1. Whether the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause is violated when the Merit Systems Protection Board relies on perjured testimony, denies discovery… |
| 25-90 | Mark S. Scott v. United States, et al. | Second Circuit | 2025-07-23 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review constitutional-due-process government-misconduct judicial-review legal-standard perjured-testimony | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit applied the wrong standard to the admission of perjured testimony that the governmen… |
| 24-1089 | Feanyichi E. Uvukansi v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2025-04-18 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | burden-of-proof due-process habeas-corpus materiality-standard perjured-testimony prosecutorial-misconduct | The state courts found that the trial prosecutor knowingly presented and failed to correct perjured testimony that the only eyewitness to identify p… |
| 23-7136 | Michael Dewayne Smith v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2024-04-04 | Denied | IFP | confession confession-corroboration constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial false-testimony murder-conviction perjured-testimony | Whether Mr. Smith's first degree murder convictions and sentence of death are unreliable and in violation of his constitutional rights to due process … |
| 23-6893 | Jacob A. Rubini v. Illinois | Illinois | 2024-03-05 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel perjured-testimony perjury post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct | Pro Se Post Conviction Petition On May 23, 2022, Rubini filed a pro se post conviction petition. (C. 680). In this petition, Rubini raised the follow… |
| 22-7395 | Gudonavon J. Taylor v. Ohio | Ohio | 2023-04-28 | Denied | IFP | brady-rule burden-of-proof constitutional-rights due-process fundamental-fairness juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders perjured-testimony presumption-of-innocence | (1) Whether the procedure rule under Crim.R. 33(B) should be deemed oppressive and arbitrary for juvenile offenders? (2) Whether a juvenile offender'… |
| 22-7137 | Eric Deangelo Griggs v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-03-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burrage-v-united-states criminal-conviction cross-examination drug-distribution due-process heroin-distribution jury-instruction perjured-testimony strict-liability | I. Whether a person can be convicted for distribution of heroin causing death using a jury instruction that makes the offense a strict liability crime… |
| 22-6440 | Damian Thomas v. Delaware | Delaware | 2023-01-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment perjured-testimony post-conviction post-conviction-relief procedural-bar prosecutorial-misconduct | Was petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment right to due process of law violated when his conviction was obtained through the use of perjured testimony and … |
| 22-5561 | Terrance Brooks v. Illinois | Illinois | 2022-09-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-court appellate-review conviction due-process judicial-review napue-standard napue-v-illinois perjured-testimony perjury prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-likelihood | Whether The Appellate Court of Illinois rejection of Mr. Brooks assertion of knowing use of perjured testimony to obtain a conviction had a reasonable… |
| 21-8120 | Willie Alfred Green v. Delijah Washington | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-06-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-claim brady-claims due-process effective-assistance false-evidence guilty-plea materially-exculpatory-evidence perjured-testimony prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment | Are Brady Claims available for defendants who plead guilty when the prosecution withholds materially exculpatory evidence? Does a guilty plea waive a… |
| 21-1411 | James Milton Dailey v. Florida | Florida | 2022-05-03 | Denied | Amici (2) | brady-v-maryland capital-murder criminal-conviction due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review materiality materiality-standard perjured-testimony perjury prosecutorial-misconduct | Petitioner James Milton Dailey was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death. He has since discovered that the State made knowing use of perj… |
| 21-5542 | Camilo Jose Arango Latorre v. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico | Puerto Rico | 2021-08-31 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rule discriminatory-act due-process fair-trial perjured-testimony reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment | 1. Certiorari requesting revision of the Honorable Supreme Court of Puerto Rico of January 12, 2021. Declaring there has been no such motion in retria… |
| 20-8279 | Kirk Cottom v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-06-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-violation computer-logs due-process expert-evidence fabrication falsification indictment ineffective-assistance perjured-testimony perjury | 1) Is it a due process violation for the government to obtain an indictment based on perjured testimony about fabricated, and falsified computer log… |
| 20-8244 | Abdul S. Aziz v. New Jersey | New Jersey | 2021-06-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights covid-19-impact due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel perjured-testimony plea-negotiations police-misconduct pro-se-brief | 1) Was error Committed by the Appellate Division when it neglected to consider Appellant 's Pro- Se Supplemental Brief, or to file said brief conside… |
| 20-7833 | In Re Demarcus Wright | 2021-04-22 | Denied | IFP | dna-evidence dna-match due-process expert-testimony expert-witness false-evidence false-testimony habeas-corpus inconclusive-evidence judicial-review perjured-testimony prosecutorial-misconduct | 1. Question: Has prejudice been shown where the prosecuting attorney, whether intentional or unintentional, allowed false evidence and inaccurate inf… | |
| 20-7783 | Michael A. Farrell v. Chris S. Buesgen, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2021-04-15 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus lower-court-ruling perjured-testimony standing supreme-court-precedent | 1. Are the lower court's rulings in direct conflict with Supreme Court precedent? 2. Did petitioner make a substantial showing he's in custody in vio… |
| 20-7039 | Thomas Patrick Keelan v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-02-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-rule brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process giglio-impeachment giglio-rule homosexuality jencks-act new-evidence perjured-testimony | 1. Does an overview of facts collected at trial/ sentencing/ restitution/ direct and collateral review/ (and from startling new evidence)/ which expo… |
| 20-6302 | Nguyen Vu v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2020-11-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-bias perjured-testimony prosecutorial-misconduct | Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution states, in part, nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or … |
| 20-432 | S. O., et al. v. District of Columbia | District of Columbia | 2020-10-05 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-neglect civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process evidence fabricated-evidence fifth-amendment perjured-testimony perjury standing | Whether the Fifth Amendment prohibits the District of Columbia's use of fabricated evidence and perjured testimony in a civil child neglect proceeding… |
| 20-5247 | Avern Lee Burnside v. Randee Rewerts, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2020-08-04 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence perjured-testimony presumption-of-correctness prosecutorial-misconduct | DID THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN AND THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ERRONEOUSLY DEN… |
| 19-1372 | Angel M. Ayala-Vazquez v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-06-12 | Denied | Response Waived | 5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process evidentiary-hearing fair-trial fifth-amendment judicial-proceedings perjured-testimony sixth-amendment standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent writ-of-certiorari | Whether the lower courts so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, or sanctioned such a departure by a lower court, … |
| 19-8437 | Joh-ner Taylor Wilson v. Illinois | Illinois | 2020-05-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights due-process fabricated-evidence false-arrest fourth-amendment perjured-testimony probable-cause warrantless-arrest wrongful-conviction | 1) Whether, Wilson's Warraantless Arrest and Detention WITHOUT PROBABLE CAUSE violates the Fourth Amendment , NOT ONLY when it precedes, but also wh… |
| 19-8344 | Brett Combs v. Nevada, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-04-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-suppression false-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel perjured-testimony perjury | This Court in Miller-El v. Cockrell, 537 U.S. 322 (2003) determined that the state-court fact-finding process is undermined where the state court has … |
| 19-7813 | Michael C. Jamerson v. Jason Lewis, Warden | Missouri | 2020-02-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process evidentiary-hearing exculpatory-evidence giglio-vs-united-states habeas-corpus napue-standard napue-vs-illinois perjured-testimony prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony | I. Did the Missouri courts err in failing to find that the State's failure to disclose exculpatory evidence violated its obligation under Brady v. Mar… |
| 19-953 | Charles Farrar v. Dean Williams, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2020-01-30 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-conviction due-process judicial-review material-evidence perjured-testimony perjury post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct | Whether the Due Process Clause is violated when the prosecution relies on material, perjured testimony to secure a conviction but did not know the tes… |
| 19-7312 | In Re Mo Savoy Hicks | 2020-01-15 | Denied | IFP | actual-innocence criminal-procedure discarded-evidence due-process evidentiary-standard exculpatory-evidence forensic-fraud fundamental-injustice habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review perjured-testimony post-conviction-relief state-court-proceedings | New evidence establishes Petitioner's actual innocence and his continued incarceration is fundamentally unjust. | |
| 19-7274 | Gregory Bartko v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-01-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus impeachment-evidence perjured-testimony prosecutorial-misconduct wearry-v-cain witness-testimony | I. Did the lower courts err in failing to properly review and conclude that the prosecution's withholding of exculpatory and impeachment evidence favo… |
| 19-95 | Linda Bolton, et vir v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-07-18 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment government-misconduct grand-jury judicial-precedent perjured-testimony tax tax-prosecution | 1. Whether tax prosecutions can be now be authorized by the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service for investigation by a grand jury and approve… |
| 18-7648 | William R. Stevenson v. R. Cordova, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2019-01-30 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights civil-rights-violation-obvious-standard constitutional-violation deliberate-indifference directed-verdict-standard due-process eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-deliberate-indifference judicial-bias perjured-testimony prison-conditions qualified-immunity summary-judgment summary-judgment-qualified-immunity | Whether the Court of Appeals erred in concluding the law was not clearly established as to the conduct of Defendants Espinoza and Williams and in conc… |
| 18-7653 | Lonzo Bonner v. Michigan | Michigan | 2019-01-29 | Denied | IFP | brady-material due-process fair-trial fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel perjured-testimony probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct | WHETHER PETITIONER WAS DEPRIVED OF HIS STATE AND FEDERAL CONSTITIONAL RIGHT TO A FAIR TRIAL AND DUE PROCESS OF LAW WHEN THE PROSECUTION DELIBERATELY W… |
| 18-7100 | Brian Simmons v. Michael Capra, Superintendent, Sing Sing Correctional Facility | Second Circuit | 2018-12-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial fraud-on-the-court ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review perjured-testimony perjury prosecutorial-misconduct | Whether, petitioner's justification defense was lost amoungest the volume of prosecutors use of false or perjured testimonies that went uncorrected. … |
| 18-6639 | Stuart Dizak v. Brandon Smith, Superintendent, Mid-State Correctional Facility | Second Circuit | 2018-11-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actual-innocence conspiracy-charge criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jailhouse-informant judicial-misconduct jury-instructions jury-notes perjured-testimony perjury prosecutorial-misconduct | The 5tate court failed to return defendant to the courtroom upon receipt of two substantive jury notes; the second note requestiing the definition of … |
| 18-5946 | William A. Parrish, Jr. v. Lyneal Wainwright, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2018-09-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-rights court-of-appeals due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel grand-jury-selection indigent indigent-defendant indigent-litigant judicial-discretion perjured-testimony pro-se right-to-appeal right-to-counsel self-representation speedy-trial transcript trial-transcript | Did the State Court of Appeals have the authority to deny a pro se indigent litigant a copy of his trial transcript because he choose to represent him… |
| 18-5562 | Albert Norman Pierre, Sr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2018-08-14 | Denied | IFP | circuit-court-split circuit-split constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial innocence perjured-testimony prosecutorial-knowledge prosecutorial-misconduct recantation victim-recantation | Whether petitioner, who maintains his innocence, was denied due process and a fundamentally fair trial base on victim's false testimony and post-trial… |