prosecution-evidence

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-7746 Robert Brumfield, III v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-06-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP acquitted-conduct brady-prejudice criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment jury-acquittal prosecution-evidence sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment 1. Whether courts evaluating Brady prejudice are permitted to ignore a jury's acquittal when evaluating the strength of the prosecution's evidence. I…
23-886 Carlos Guardado v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2024-02-16 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) burks-v-united-states change-in-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy evidence legal-sufficiency prosecution-evidence second-trial supreme-court-precedent trial-rights In Burks v. United States, 437 U.S. 1, 11 (1978), this Court held that when the evidence the prosecution introduced at a criminal trial is legally ins…
23-622 Dale Thrush v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-12-08 Denied Response Waived arizona-v-washington circuit-split constitutional-review double-jeopardy fifth-amendment manifest-necessity mistrial-standard prosecution-evidence standard-of-review trial-court-discretion 1. Whether this Court should adopt an objectively reasonable approach when evaluating whether the trial court's declaration of a mistrial was supporte…
22-6985 Lisa Bergman v. Jeremy Howard, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-right criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony expert-witness prosecution-evidence right-to-counsel scientific-evidence scientific-expert Whether the Due Process Clause requires an impoverished criminal defendant to be appointed a scientific expert that is essential to confront scientifi…