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25A460 George Sharrod Johns v. Georgia Georgia 2025-10-22 Presumed Complete confrontation-clause criminal-procedure expert-testimony forensic-pathology sixth-amendment testimonial-statements Question not identified.
24-7155 John Fitzgerald Gayles v. Arizona Arizona 2025-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP arizona-rules-of-evidence fraudulent-evidence jury-trial state-evidence testimonial-statements trial-court-discretion 1) The Question Is WHETHER The Trial Court Abused Its Discretion When It Erroneously Allowed The State Of Arizona To Admit Testimonial State-Ments (th…
24-985 Ohio v. Garry Smith Ohio 2025-03-14 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process emergency-doctrine hearsay-exception testimonial-statements Because the Confrontation Clause affords criminal defendants the right during trial "to be confronted with the witnesses against " them , is the initi…
24-6389 Kalontae Carter, aka Kelontae Carter v. Doug Luneke, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-01-24 Denied IFP accomplice-testimony confrontation-clause criminal-procedure out-of-court-statements sixth-amendment testimonial-statements I. Whether the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment prohibits the introduction and use of statements made by a non-testifying accomplice which …
24-6101 Halim Khan v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-12-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-prosecution due-process interpreter-testimony sixth-amendment testimonial-statements Whether translated out-of-court testimonial statements may be admitted by the Government as evidence against a defendant without providing the defenda…
24-5913 Lili Zhang Tydingco v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-11-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP alien-harboring-act confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-prosecution cross-examination testimonial-statements 1. Whether translated out-of-court testimonial statements may be admitted by the Government as evidence against a defendant without providing the defe…
24-330 Cid C. Franklin v. New York New York 2024-09-24 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9) bail-report confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination sixth-amendment testimonial-statements 1. Whether the Sixth Amendment's Confrontation Clause applies to out-of-court statements admitted as evidence against criminal defendants if, and only…
23-7711 Philong Nghia Huynh v. J. Lizarraga Ninth Circuit 2024-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure criminal-trial forensic-nurse sixth-amendment surrogate-nurse surrogate-testimony testimonial-statements testimony Whether the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment permits the prosecution in a criminal trial to present testimony by a surrogate nurse conveyin…
23-7592 Ynedra Diggs v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-05-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP bruton-rule bruton-v-united-states co-defendant-statements confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fifth-amendment fifth-circuit testimonial-evidence testimonial-statements unavailable-witnesses WAS MS. DIGGS'S CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO CONFRONTATION VIOLATED WHEN THE DISTRICT COURT ADMITTED RECORDED STATEMENTS OF UNAVAILABLE CODEFENDANTS INTO E…
23-6618 Mabior M. Mabior v. Nebraska Nebraska 2024-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review confrontation-clause cross-examination hearsay hearsay-exception ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment testimonial-statement testimonial-statements 1) Is a defendant's right to confrontation under the Sixth Amendment violated when testimonial statements are admitted for the truth of the matters as…
23-6559 Marcus Johnson v. Randy Irwin, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Forest, et al. Third Circuit 2024-01-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-deference confrontation-clause due-process expert-testimony expert-witness judicial-review prejudice prejudice-standard self-defense sixth-amendment testimonial-statements 1. Did the Third Circuit err in deferring to the District Court's finding that Mr. Johnson suffered no prejudice from the Confrontation violation that…
23-5238 John Edward Scott v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review burden-of-proof confrontation-clause confrontation-clause-jurisprudence federal-rules-of-evidence machine-generated-data machine-produced-data supreme-court-jurisprudence testimonial-evidence testimonial-statements Who has the burden to show that a report sought to be introduced includes "raw, machine produced data" and not testimonial statements triggering the C…
22-7075 Dennis Morgan Hicks v. Alabama Alabama 2023-03-22 Denied IFP child-witnesses confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-defendant hearsay prior-statements sixth-amendment testimonial-statements witness-testimony 1. Whether a criminal defendant is deprived of his Sixth Amendment right to confront witnesses against him, as set forth in Crawford v. Washington and…
22-885 South Carolina v. Angela D. Brewer South Carolina 2023-03-15 Denied confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure expert-testimony forensic-evidence forensic-pathology melendez-diaz-v-massachusetts ohio-v-clark sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence testimonial-statements Whether lab results requested not by law enforcement but by a forensic pathologist to assist in making a routine cause of death determination are test…
22-6561 Telly Hankton v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause conspiracy-liability criminal-procedure federal-circuit-courts forfeiture-by-wrongdoing sixth-amendment standard-of-proof testimonial-statements By what standard of proof does the Sixth Amendment permit the admission at trial of prior testimonial statements under the forfeiture by wrongdoing ex…
21-8237 Odece Dempsean Hill v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause crawford-precedent crawford-v-washington forensic-nurse-examiner melendez-diaz-v-massachusetts ninth-circuit sexual-assault sexual-assault-victim testimonial-statements Whether the Confrontation Clause permits the prosecution to introduce the testimonial statements of a non-testifying sexual assault victim lay witness…
21-5398 Scott Estes v. United States First Circuit 2021-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process emergency-call evidence hearsay-exception sixth-amendment testimonial-statements Did the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit fail to correctly apply the objective primary purpose test for testimonial statements mad…
20-8312 Ronald Delester Burke v. Washington Washington 2021-06-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination nurse-examiner sexual-assault sexual-assault-nurse-examiner sixth-amendment testimonial-statements Does the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment prohibit a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner from testifying about statements made during a forensic …
20-8151 Marcus D. Williams v. California California 2021-05-26 Denied IFP confrontation-clause constitutional-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility forensic-evidence forensic-testing hearsay hearsay-evidence testimonial-statement testimonial-statements 1. What degree of formality is necessary before hearsay statements contained within a forensic testing report which connect an accused to the testing …
20-8099 Joseph Reinwand v. Susan Novak, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-05-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause confrontation-rights due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus sixth-amendment testimonial-statements 1. Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Failed to Apply the Law on Deceased out-of-court testimonial Statements by a Non-testifying Witness. T…
20-7990 Jose Meza v. Stuart Sherman, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-05-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP bruton-v-united-states co-defendant-statements co-defendants confrontation-clause constitutional-procedure crawford-v-washington criminal-evidence informant ninth-circuit-interpretation testimonial testimonial-statements 1. Did the Ninth Circuit err in holding that Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36 (2004) effectively and silently overruled Bruton v. United States, 39…
20-6918 Richard Moseley, Sr. v. United States Second Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-law confrontation-clause criminal-law due-process fair-warning overfederalization-of-criminal-law rico rico-statute testimonial-statements unlawful-debt I. Whether the Court should decide an important question involving the overfederalization of criminal law: namely, whether a defendant is provided fai…
20-5805 Ian Resnick v. United States Third Circuit 2020-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process fraud-loss overview-testimony sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment testimonial-statements 1) Whether the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment permits, under the guise of "overview testimony", the admission against a criminal defenda…
20-5665 Nathaniel Marcus Gann v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2020-09-11 Denied IFP confrontation-clause constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility habeas-corpus testimonial-statements 1) IS THE ADMISSION OF IRRELEVANT OR OVERTLY PREJUDICIAL EVIDENCE A DUE PROCESS VIOLATION? (AND IS SUCH A VIOLATION SUFFICIENT TO ISSUE A WRIT OF HABE…
20-317 Dakai Chavis v. Delaware Delaware 2020-09-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) confrontation-clause criminal-procedure dna-evidence evidence-admissibility multi-analyst-testing out-of-court-statements testimonial-statements Whether the Confrontation Clause permits DNA evidence obtained as the result of a multi-analyst testing process to be introduced against the defendant…
19-8607 Derrick Thompson v. Patrick Griffin, Superintendent, Sullivan Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2020-06-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP confrontation-clause fair-trial forensic-analysis forensic-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-fair-trial sixth-amendment speedy-trial testimonial-evidence testimonial-statements Does the Confrontation Clause permit the prosecution to introduce testimonial identification statements of a non-testifying forensic analyst through t…
19-7932 Enrique Auch v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2020-03-10 Denied IFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination evidence-law feigning memory-loss out-of-court-statements sixth-amendment testimonial-statements witness-testimony Whether the Confrontation Clause permits the prosecution to introduce out-of-court testimonial statements from a witness who is feigning memory loss a…
19-7599 Tracey Smith-Kilpatrick v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP business-records confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington evidence-rule federal-rule-of-evidence-803(6) federal-rules-of-evidence government-use hearsay hearsay-exception record-reliability sixth-circuit testimonial-statement testimonial-statements Whether business records qualify as inadmissible hearsay when the government uses them as testimonial statements and for purposes other than those for…
19-7097 Juan Sanchez v. California California 2019-12-30 Denied IFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process out-of-court-statements prior-testimony testimonial-statements trial-evidence witness-memory witness-testimony Whether a defendant in a criminal case is denied the opportunity for full and effective cross-examination in violation of the Confrontation Clause by …
19-6493 Theresa Gail Scanlan v. Washington Washington 2019-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP accuser confrontation-clause criminal-procedure medical-evidence medical-personnel police-interrogation police-involvement prosecutorial-purpose prosecutorial-use sixth-amendment testimonial testimonial-statements When police officers repeatedly inform an accuser that his statements to medical personnel will be given to the police and prosecuting authorities for…
19-5936 Cesar Rosario Lopez-Ramos v. Minnesota Minnesota 2019-09-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination foreign-language-interpreter police-interrogation sixth-amendment testimonial-statements translation-evidence Whether the Sixth Amendment's Confrontation Clause permits the prosecution to introduce testimonial statements in the form of an unidentified foreign …
19-6 New York v. Jahmarley Jones New York 2019-06-28 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure gang-evidence police-investigation police-investigations sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence testimonial-statements Whether statements made by individuals during routine police investigations – prior to the commission of a specific crime, the identification of a sus…
18-9428 Robert L. Jenkins v. Pelicia E. Hall, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-05-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction bullcoming-v-new-mexico civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process evidence-law forensic-evidence judicial-review melendez-diaz-v-massachusetts testimonial-statements This COURT's 2OO4 dECiSiON iN CRAWfORd v. WAshingtOn, 541 U.S. 36 (2004) clEARly ESTAblishEd thAT, puRSUANT to thE CONFRONtATiON ClAUSE of THE SiXth A…
18-8902 Gustav Kloszewski v. United States Second Circuit 2019-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation Crawford-precedent crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility precedent sixth-amendment testimonial-statements Did the lower court fail to follow this Court's precedent in Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36 (2004).
18-8379 John Anthony Dobbs v. Texas Texas 2019-03-11 Denied IFP civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-interpretation crawford-standard crawford-v-washington due-process evidence forensic-evidence medical-examination medical-forensic medical-forensic-purpose sane-nurse sane-nurse-examination testimonial-statement testimonial-statements BECAUSE SANE NURSE EXAMINATIONS HAVE EVOLVED INTO A DUAL MEDICAL AND FORENSIC PURPOSE, HAVE THE STATEMENTS OBTAINED BECOME 'TESTIMONIAL' FOR PURPOSES …
18-6060 James Chavez v. Robert LeGrand, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause crawford-precedent crawford-v-washington cross-examination hearsay-exception preliminary-hearing sixth-amendment testimonial-statements witness-unavailability Whether, pursuant to Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36 (2004), a Prosecution can Admit Prior Testimonial Statements, Including a Video-taped Intervi…