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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-6479 Sterling H. Roberts v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-01-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure declarant-unavailability forfeiture-by-wrongdoing mixed-motives primary-purpose sixth-amendment unavailability In Giles v. California, 554 U.S. 353, 128 S. Ct. 2678, 171 L. Ed. 2d 488 (2008), this Court recognized the common law exception to the Confrontation C…
21-7854 Michael G. Peters v. David Hittner, Judge Fifth Circuit 2022-05-13 Denied IFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination hearsay sixth-amendment unavailability Question not identified.
19-361 Renado Smith and Richard Delancy v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-18 Denied Amici (3) confrontation-clause criminal-evidence criminal-procedure custody-release deposition-testimony due-process good-faith-effort investigative-steps prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-procedure sixth-amendment testimonial-statement unavailability witness-unavailability The Confrontation Clause permits prosecutors to introduce the out-of-court testimonial statements of an absent witness only if the witness is "unavail…
18-6827 Eric Williams v. New York New York 2018-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP barber-v-page confrontation-clause criminal-procedure deportation good-faith-effort significant-public-benefit-parole sixth-amendment unavailability witness-testimony At a retrial in a criminal case, New York prosecutors were permitted to introduce prior testimony of a witness from the first trial. The witness had b…