prosecutorial-vouching

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-247 Charles L. Payne, II v. Ohio Ohio 2025-09-03 Denied criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-vouching sixth-amendment witness-credibility Under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, a defendant has a right against a prosecutor or law enforcement vouching …
23-5155 Jeremiah Lyle VanTassel v. Patricia Thompson, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. Third Circuit 2023-07-20 Denied IFP aedpa civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling fraud fraud-upon-court procedural-default prosecutorial-vouching standing time-limits Does fraud upon the court trigger equitable tolling? Would jurists of reason all agree that Petitioner procedurally defaulted in re the time limits u…
23-5049 Marcus O. Singleton v. Scott Eckstein, Warden Seventh Circuit 2023-07-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error judicial-review prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-vouching trial-misconduct wisconsin-courts witness-credibility 1. Whether the Wisconsin courts failed to address the issue presented to them that the prosecutor vouch for their witnesses. 2. Whether the prosecuto…
22-6909 Curtis Lynn Fauber v. Ronald Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-03-02 Denied IFP curative-instructions donnelly-v-dechristoforo due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-vouching vouching witness-credibility At Curtis Fauber's trial, the prosecution relied on the testimony of two accomplices to secure his conviction and death sentence. Sensing that his key…
19-8479 Bernard J. Fleming v. United States District of Columbia 2020-05-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP closing-arguments criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial personal-opinion prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-vouching vouching witness-credibility When do comments by a prosecutor in her final and rebuttal arguments to the jury in a criminal case that affirm the veracity of the government's chief…
19-6584 Steven Williams v. United States Second Circuit 2019-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP cooperating-witnesses cooperation-agreement credibility-bolstering direct-examination due-process government-vouching prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-vouching truth-telling witness-credibility witness-testimony Whether it is a violation of due process for the government to bolster the testimony of cooperating witnesses by introducing the 'truth-telling' aspec…