summation

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
20-8227 Trevor Anderson v. Lynn Lilley, Superintendent, Eastern Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2021-06-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing fair-trial implicit-bias prosecutorial-misconduct summation visual-presentation 1. Can a prosecutor's display of a visual presentation during summation activate implicit biases, and if so, does the activation of those biases depri…
20-448 Kenneth Ray Strickland v. Texas Texas 2020-10-08 Denied appellate-review assault corpus-delicti directed-verdict due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel summary-rejection summation trial-counsel I. Whether it violates due process for an appellate court to reject without explanation a trial court's favorable dispositive fact findings that were …
19-1432 Charles Rainer Sinek v. United States Second Circuit 2020-06-29 Denied Response Waived appeal criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure jury-instructions prejudice rule-30 summation When a district court violates Fed. R. Crim. P. 30 and delivers a jury instruction different than what the parties were told to expect, must a defenda…
19-5178 Howard Lester v. Ohio Ohio 2019-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure essential-element expert-testimony firearms-examination fourth-amendment prosecutor-summation report-admission seizure substitute-analyst summation witness-testimony I. Whether the admission of a report authored by a non-testifying firearms examiner, and expert testimony from a substitute analyst concerning the fin…
18-7576 Jordaan Stanly Creque v. Alabama Alabama 2019-01-25 Denied IFP capital-murder constitutional-rights credibility death-penalty due-process law-enforcement-testimony law-enforcement-witness reliable-process summation summation-and-bolstering trial-by-jury witness-credibility Where a law enforcement witness who has been seated at counsel table throughout trial gives testimony bolstering other witnesses' credibility and summ…