trial-evidence

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6624 Ryan Adelbert Johnson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2026-01-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process impartial-jury reasonable-doubt trial-evidence I. Whether the Due Process Clause of the 5th Amendment was violated when no rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of Counts 1…
25-6364 Joshua Luckey v. Louisiana Louisiana 2025-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-right due-process false-allegations fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment trial-evidence Did the trial court violate Luckey's Sixth Amendment right to confrontation and his XIV Amendment right to due process when evidence showing prior fal…
25-664 Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections v. Justin Michael Wolfe Fourth Circuit 2025-12-08 Pending actual-innocence factfinder-standard habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence schlup-standard trial-evidence Whether the "new" evidence required to make an actual-innocence claim under Schlup v. Delo, 513 U.S. 298 (1995), includes only newly discovered eviden…
25-580 Gary Richard Whitton v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-17 Pending Amici (2) appellate-review constitutional-error giglio-violation habeas-corpus prejudice-standard trial-evidence 1. Whether in determining whether a constitutional error had a prejudicial effect on the outcome of a trial a court must consider only that evidence t…
25A394 Gary Richard Whitton v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-06 Presumed Complete dna-evidence giglio-error habeas-corpus harmless-error jury-verdict trial-evidence Question not identified.
23-6496 Irvin Harris Johnson v. United States District of Columbia 2024-01-17 Denied IFP attorney-client-privilege criminal-procedure evidence-seizure prejudice pretrial-detention right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-evidence work-product-doctrine work-product-privilege While Petitioner Irvin Johnson was in jail awaiting trial for murder, he reviewed the police affidavit from his arrest, taking notes on questions and …
23-6179 Anibal Miranda-Montanez v. United States First Circuit 2023-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review case-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-instructions legal-sufficiency procedural-challenge standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence trial-evidence verdict-challenge Whether The Evidence Was Insufficient for the Verdict to Stand.
22-7400 Maurice Morrison v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2023-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause confrontation-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment judicial-protection jury-deliberations jury-trial sixth-amendment trial-evidence A person accused of a crime is entitled to have his guilt or innocence determined solely on the basis of evidence introduced at trial. Taylor v. Kentu…
22-6016 Sheila Gray v. City of Detroit, Michigan Sixth Circuit 2022-11-08 Denied IFP civil-procedure court-discretion judicial-error jury-verdict overturning-verdict standard-of-review substantial-evidence trial-evidence trial-procedure weight-of-evidence witness-testimony 1. Whether Appellant presents substantial evidence that the unanimous jury verdict goes against the great weight of the evidence presented at trial …
21-8288 William Jack Parkerson v. Oregon Oregon 2022-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP accomplice-instructions court-of-appeals due-process federal-standard harmless-error oregon-court-of-appeals trial-evidence trial-procedure Did the Oregon court of appeals apply the correct federal harmless error standard violating Due Process, when viewing the evidence at trial when it de…
20-1281 Byron Dredd v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-03-15 Denied Response Waived 18-usc-1001 18-usc-1519 18-usc-241 acquittal civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy false-statements religious-communication trial-evidence 1. Whether petitioner's acquittals on two counts - conspiracy against civil rights, 18 U.S.C. section 241 and providing false statements, 18 U.S.C. se…
20-6545 Michael Meadows v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure cumulative-error-doctrine drug-enforcement drug-profile-testimony due-process evidence expert-testimony judicial-procedure legal-admissibility trial-evidence trial-practice I. Does drug profile testimony have any legitimate use as trial evidence? II. Does the cumulative error doctrine exist and, if so, can errors to whic…
19-8088 Antonio Rodrigues v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2020-03-24 Denied IFP constitutional-due-process criminal-element due-process felony-murder judicial-determination judicial-fact-finding maximum-sentence predicate-felony sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence trial-evidence Does the Constitution prohibit a State to define a crime to include an element that is to be decided by a judge without evidence; and where the State …
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 …
18-9806 Karlynn Romeo Tones, Donta Lyvoid Blackmon, and Arvin Terrill Carmen v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy constitutional-rights criminal-conspiracy criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process indictment indictment-specificity jury-instructions jury-unanimity trial-evidence unanimity Do federal criminal defendants have a constitutional right to a specific unanimity instruction requiring the jury to unanimously define the duration a…
18-7330 Michael Anthony Garrett v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-theory due-process evidence fifth-amendment jury-instructions right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment trial-evidence Whether a defendant's constitutional right to present a defense as guaranteed by the Fifth and Sixth Amendments to the United States Constitution enco…
18-858 James McCullars v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-01-07 Denied Response Waived advertisement advertising-statute communication-privacy criminal-law criminal-prosecution due-process first-amendment free-speech legal-interpretation notice notice-and-advertisement private-communications statutory-interpretation trial-evidence Whether the proof at trial which established that petitioner was only engaged in private, closed communications - either one-to-one, or among a small …
18-326 Estate of Bernice Goldberg by Executor Gary Goldberg v. Philip Nimoityn, et al. Third Circuit 2018-09-13 Denied civil-procedure due-process expert-testimony federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure perjury procedural-due-process sanctions trial-evidence 1. In National Hockey League v Metropolitan Hockey Club, Inc., 427 U.S. 639 (1976), this Court ruled that the failure to comply with Rule 26 and 37 of…
18-5143 Robert Graham v. Melissa Hainsworth, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset, et al. Third Circuit 2018-07-05 Denied IFP admissibility batson-vs-kentucky criminal-procedure due-process fingerprinting fingerprinting-expert identification identification-testimony preliminary-hearing reliability trial-evidence witness-credibility QUESTION ONE: IS AN IN COURT IDENTIFICATION OF THE DEFENDANT AS THE ROBBER -ADMISSIBLE AT TRIAL IN THE ABSENCE OF A DUE PROCESS HEARING -TO FIRST D…