rule-403
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-6546 | Miguel Bocardo and Cyr Dino Banguguilan v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2026-01-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | court-of-appeals district-court evidence-challenge federal-rules-of-evidence rule-403 sexual-abuse | In Yee v. City of Escondido, 503 U.S. 519, 534 (1992), this Court held that "[o]nce a federal claim is properly presented, a party can make any argume… |
| 25-6125 | Sylvia Olivas, aka Sylvia Lee Gavaldon v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-11-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | dual-role-testimony evidence-admissibility expert-witness gatekeeping-role rule-403 rule-702 | A witness who testifies as a lay witness offering either factual testimony and/or lay opinion testimony and also testifies as an expert offering exper… |
| 25-573 | Donald J. Trump, President of the United States v. E. Jean Carroll | Second Circuit | 2025-11-13 | Pending | Amici (5)Relisted (3) | evidence-rules propensity-evidence rule-403 rule-404b rule-413 rule-415 | I. Whether Federal Rule of Evidence 415 overrides Rule 403's requirement to balance the probative value of temporally remote propensity evidence again… |
| 24-5240 | Bradley Dale Hull v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-08-06 | Denied | IFP | federal-rules-of-evidence intent intent-element lower-court-decisions other-act-evidence prejudice probative-value rule-403 rule-404(b) rule-404b unfair-prejudice | Is it incumbent upon a trial court when determining whether the probative value of other-act evidence offered under Rule 404(b) is substantially outwe… |
| 23-6616 | Fan Yang v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-01-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | complete-defense criminal-defendant criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-exclusion federal-rules-of-evidence jury-trial right-to-present-defense rule-403 | Whether a court may exclude evidence under Fed. R. Evid. 403, where doing so would preclude a criminal defendant from presenting a complete defense to… |
| 23-6060 | John Lacey Mulkey v. Georgia | Georgia | 2023-11-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence extrinsic-evidence right-to-present-defense rule-403 sixth-amendment speedy-trial | Did the Court of Appeals violate the due process right to present a defense, in holding admissible, under O.C.G.A. § 24-4-403, (Rule 403) extrinsic ev… |
| 22-5991 | Glenn Randall Ferguson v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2022-11-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-4241 child-pornography competency criminal-competency criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-courts mental-health rule-403 | 1. When a district court has found a criminal defendant to be incompetent pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 4241, and the defendant is then sent to a BOP facili… |
| 22-5199 | Israel Manuel Rios v. Texas | Texas | 2022-07-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | due-process evidence-rule-403 extraneous-offense extraneous-offenses fair-trial prejudicial-effect probative-value rule-403 sexual-misconduct | QUESTION 1: Certiorari should be granted to determine whether the purpose of Rule 403 is to exclude relevant but substantially prejudicial evi dence, … |
| 21-980 | Brad Jennings v. Daniel F. Nash, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2022-01-10 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | evidentiary-doctrine federal-rules-of-evidence jury-instructions opening-the-door prejudicial-effect probative-value rule-403 summary-judgment | 1. Does the doctrine of "opening the door" require the traditional Federal Rules of Evidence Rule 403 balancing of probative value versus prejudicial … |
| 20-129 | Muhanad Elfatih M. A. Badawi v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-08-07 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial federal-rules-of-evidence foreign-terrorist-organization material-support old-chief old-chief-precedent rule-403 terrorism-evidence | Whether graphic evidence of terrorism, admitted without the balancing test required by Fed. R. Evid. 403 and Old Chief v. United States, 519 U.S. 172,… |
| 19-8887 | Maria Pena-Rivera v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-07-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court evidence-admissibility evidence-admission evidentiary-standard federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-error rule-403 rule-404(b) | Is it error by the district court to fail to enumerate the specific basis for allowing evidence pursuant for Federal Rule of Evidence section 404(b) s… |
| 19-8819 | Hector Rivera v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-06-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alternative-evidence confrontation-right cross-examination district-court-discretion evidentiary-limitation federal-rules-of-evidence rule-403 sixth-amendment | Whethe r a district court 's discretion to limit the Sixth Amendment right to confront witnesses is as broad as the general discr etion to limit evid … |
| 19-8184 | William Francis Walsh, IV v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-04-06 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-2252 criminal-procedure evidence-presentation federal-rules-of-evidence ninth-circuit-interpretation old-chief-precedent old-chief-v-united-states prejudicial-material rule-403 stipulation | Did the Ninth Circuit's disposition of Petitioner's Rule 403 claim, based on the district court's having abused its discretion by rejecting his proffe… |
| 19-7457 | Rogelio Villarreal-Estebis v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-01-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | complete-defense criminal-conviction criminal-procedure drug-trafficking evidence-exclusion federal-rule-of-evidence-403 right-to-defense rule-403 sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-rights vehicle-ownership | Whether the Fifth Circuit's decision to affirm the trial court's refusal to admit the evidence was contrary to, or involved an unreasonable applicatio… |
| 19-7133 | Angel Noel Guevara v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-12-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-v-maryland cross-examination due-process expert-testimony eyewitness-identification eyewitness-testimony independent-evidence police-lineup rule-403 sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-present-defense | 1. Whether excluding expert testimony on eyewitness memory and police lineup procedures violates the Sixth Amendment right to present a defense, or co… |
| 19-5550 | Jackie Duncan v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-08-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 10th-circuit abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure constitutional-vagueness due-process evidence-admissibility federal-courts federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-discretion procedural-error rule-403 rule-404(b) rule-404b standard-of-review | 1. WHETHER THE 10TH CIRCUIT ERRED IN RULING THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF OKLAHOMA DIDN'T ABUSE THEIR DISCRETION? 2. WHETHER ANTHONY JOHNSON. TESTIMONY OUT… |
| 18-7525 | Delexsia Harris v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-01-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure evidence evidence-suppression federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-discretion old-chief-v-united-states prejudicial-evidence prejudicial-information prior-bad-acts rule-403 | Should the analysis utilized in, Old Chief v. United States, 519 US 172, 179; 117 S.ct 644, 651 (1997), for supression of prior bad acts in relation t… |
| 18-6265 | Samuel Silva v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-10-10 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-procedure criminal-statute evidence evidence-prejudice federal-firearms federal-rule-403 federal-rules-of-evidence felon-in-possession felon-possession firearm-possession jury-instruction jury-instructions prejudice prejudicial-evidence probative-value rule-403 | Whether the practice of telling juries in a 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) (1) prosecution that the defendant is a previously -convicted felon, as is routine ly d… |
| 18-5605 | Robert S. Beyer, II v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-08-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | admissibility appellate-procedure bad-character-evidence character-evidence criminal-procedure de-novo-review due-process evidence-rules federal-rules-of-evidence presumption-of-admissibility rule-403 rule-404 sentencing-guidelines victim-vulnerability | 1. Do Fed R. Evid. Rules 403 and 404 create a presumption favoring admissibility of bad character evidence? 2. May the United States Courts of Appeal… |
| 25A480 | Kaeun Kim v. Mark Ali, et al. | Third Circuit | Denied | digital-video evidence-authentication judicial-procedure rule-403 rule-901 surveillance-footage | 1. Whether an applicant is entitled to all-writs relief preserving the status quo when lower courts admit or rely on digital video without minimal aut… |