trier-of-fact
7 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-5771 | Jared Wade Hinman, Sr. v. Illinois | Illinois | 2025-10-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process sufficiency-of-evidence trier-of-fact | 1. Did the blanket refusal, by the Appellate Court of Illinois, to 'substitute their judgement for that of the Trier of Fact ', deny an affirmative de… |
| 23-6177 | Sylvia Olivas, aka Sylvia Lee Gavaldon v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-12-06 | GVR | Relisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-activity criminal-procedure expert-testimony expert-witness federal-rules-of-evidence mens-rea mental-state trier-of-fact | Rule 704(b) of the Federal Rules of Evidence provides: In a criminal case, an expert witness must not state an opinion about whether the defendant did… |
| 22-6818 | Jessica Page Weber v. Cigna, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2023-02-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-standing social-security standing trier-of-fact | The duty to report and the duty to advise is codified in the United States Constitution, the highest court in the land. Litigation is a contentious ma… |
| 21-7384 | Joseph Valchez Laue v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2022-03-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circumstantial-evidence constitutional-sufficiency criminal-evidence due-process jackson-v-virginia jury-verdict legal-standard lsa-r.s.-15-438 rational-trier-of-fact reasonable-doubt state-burden-of-proof trier-of-fact | 1. Reasonable jurists would determine that the jury's verdict as to Count One should be reversed as the evidence against Mr. Lane was constitutionally… |
| 19-5933 | Julian Alejandro Mendez v. California | California | 2019-09-13 | Denied | IFP | aggravating-factors constitutional-amendments criminal-sentencing death-penalty due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment trier-of-fact | Whether the California death penalty scheme violates the Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments by permitting the trier of fact to impose a sentence o… |
| 19-33 | Kevin Wallace v. Andeavor Corporation | Fifth Circuit | 2019-07-03 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split civil-rights employee-protection federal-prohibitions matter-of-law objective-reasonableness sarbanes-oxley sarbanes-oxley-act trier-of-fact whistleblower whistleblower-protection whistleblower-retaliation | The anti-retaliation provision of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1514A(a), forbids retaliation against an employee because he or she disclosed t… |
| 18-369 | Fidencio Valdez v. Texas | Texas | 2018-09-20 | Denied | circumstantial-evidence constitutional-due-process criminal-procedure due-process false-evidence false-testimony perjury prosecutorial-misconduct tacit-agreement timely-objection trier-of-fact void-for-vagueness witness-testimony | 1. When a defendant knows or should know that a prosecutor has used or introduced false or perjured evidence before the trier-of-fact, is there an obl… |