trial-error
18 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-6173 | Charles Jason Carmichael v. South Carolina | South Carolina | 2025-11-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process hearsay-testimony trial-error | X. 4^ $ X. S-t-M-j-e $ Cot>r4 e^cej4 no4 nj v^UoX^ e'r 4\i€ 4r<c<l Coucf errcA in cv<Jvn.44->n« He +es4>'w,otnj cl"' <1 vJifnesS Q.C. , ^kex-fc -He c… |
| 23-5118 | In Re Dustin Ray Braddock | 2023-07-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure district-court due-process expert-testimony jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct structural-error subject-matter-jurisdiction supreme-court trial-error | Whether the District Court erred in denying petitioner Braddock's right to expert and precipient witness testimony, and whether prosecutorial miscondu… | |
| 22-7124 | Ricky Lee Scott v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction | Arkansas | 2023-03-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-violation due-process first-degree-murder jury-instructions life-imprisonment state-procedural-default trial-error waiver | WHETHER PETITIONER SCOTT'S RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS OF LAW WAS VIOLATED WHEN HE WAS CONVICTED IN A JURY TRIAL OF FIRST-DEGREE MURDER AND SENTENCED TO LIFE… |
| 22-6135 | Monzell Harding v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-11-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-discretion evidence extrinsic-evidence rico rico-conspiracy rule-404(b) rule-404b trial-error uncharged-crimes | Was the district court required by Huddleston v. United States, 485 U.S. 681 (1988) and Rule 404(b) to cure the reversible trial error that resulted f… |
| 22-6077 | William Donnell, III v. Eddie Caley, Warden, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2022-11-16 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process extrinsic-evidence impeachment lead-detective right-to-present-defense trial-court-error trial-error witness-impeachment | 1. Did the trial court, by prohibiting me from impeaching the lead detective with extrinsic evidence specifically contradicting his testimony on direc… |
| 22-5834 | Jose A. Torres v. Lisa Mitchell, Superintendent, Old Colony Correctional Center, et al. | First Circuit | 2022-10-13 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions legal-relief procedural-review standard-of-review trial-error | 1) WHETHER MR. TORRES WAS ENTITLED TO RELIEF OR IN THE ALTERNATIVE AN EVIDENTIARY HEARING, ON HIS CLAIM OF INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL, WHERE TH… |
| 22-5054 | Tyrik Upchurch v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-07-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review due-process evidence-rules expert-testimony expert-witness-testimony judicial-procedure judicial-proceedings lay-witness-testimony new-trial standard-of-review third-circuit trial-error | Did the Court of Appeal s for the Thi rd Ci rcuit so far depart from the accepted and usual course of judi cial proceedi ngs, or sancti oned such a de… |
| 21-7312 | Daniel Viveiros v. Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 2022-03-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | complaint-testimony due-process evidence evidence-admission expert-testimony prosecutorial-misconduct sexual-assault trial-error trial-procedure uncorroborated-allegations | 1. Whether the trial court erred be admitting, without'expert medical testimony, evidence of the complainant's stomachaches and bladder pain puporti… |
| 21-5315 | Rafael Arturo Coto Chinchilla v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2021-08-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | closing-arguments criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct sufficiency-of-evidence trial-error | 1. WAS THE EVIDENCE IN THE INSTANT CASE INSUFFICIENT TO SUPPORT A GUILTY VERDICT ON ALL THREE COUNTS OF THE BILL OF INFORMATION? 2. DID THE TRIAL COU… |
| 20-7549 | Shane Arnold v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-03-24 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure defense district-court due-process evidence evidence-introduction knowledge-of-status plain-error rehaif-standard Rehaif-v-United-States trial-error | Whether a defendant satisfies the final two prongs of plain error review for a Rehaif v. United States, __ U.S. __, 139 S. Ct. 2191 (2019), trial erro… |
| 20-6975 | Cortez Maurice Crumble v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-01-28 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-court-conflict criminal-law criminal-procedure mens-rea outside-trial-record plain-error-review rehaif-v-united-states substantial-rights trial-error | When evaluating Rehaif-derived trial errors under Rule 52(b) plain-error review, should prejudice under the "substantial rights" prong be presumed? 2… |
| 19-7124 | Derwin Lee Butler v. California | California | 2019-12-31 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions post-trial-hearing right-to-call-witnesses stipulation trial-court-error trial-error trial-procedure witness-testimony | 1. Does' a criminal defendant become deprived of his constitutional rights when the trial court fails to read an agreed upon stipulation and instructi… |
| 19-5334 | Martel Valencia-Cortez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-07-25 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure due-process evidence eyewitness-identification jury-instruction jury-instructions reliability-factors standing trial-error trial-procedure witness-identification | Whether a district court commits error in a federal criminal case by failing to provide a specific eyewitness identification instruction, which requir… |
| 19-5046 | James Gregory Armistead v. David Millis, Superintendent, Hyde Correctional Institution | Fourth Circuit | 2019-07-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance legal-documents prosecutorial-misconduct standing trial-error | WHETHER CIRCUIT COURT JUDGE ERROR WHEN DENIED PETITIONER APPEAL, FOR WRTT OF HABEAS CORPUS FOR VIOLATION OF CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT OF INEFECTIVE ASSISTA… |
| 18-9074 | Aaron Francois v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2019-05-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights conviction-challenge criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel louisiana-constitution sufficiency-of-evidence trial-error | Whether the evidence established that the murder and underlying felony of armed robbery formed part of a continuous transaction without a significant … |
| 18-8462 | William James Truesdale v. Florida, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-03-19 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | due-process equal-protection exculpatory-evidence fabricated-evidence fabrication-of-evidence fair-trial harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct trial-error | Whether the erroneously admitted evidence reviewing sufficiently material to provide the basis for conviction or to remove a reasonable doubt that wou… |
| 18-5681 | Dexter Leemon Johnson v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2018-08-21 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-error jury-instructions jury-trial jury-verdict reasonable-doubt sentencing statutory-maximum trial-error | 1. PETITIONER WAS DENIED THE RIGHT TO A JURY VERDICT OF GUILTY BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT 2. PETITIONER WAS DENIED EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE LAWS 3. TR… |
| 18-5386 | Allen Alexander, aka Karon Keenan v. New Jersey | New Jersey | 2018-07-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | assault constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions lesser-included-offense robbery state-criminal-law trial-error | Can a state trial judge's failure to charge the jury on a lesser included offense violate the defendant's rights guaranteed by the Due Process Clause … |