unreliable-evidence
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23-934 | Areli Escobar v. Texas | Texas | 2024-02-27 | Denied | Amici (4)Relisted (4) | capital-murder capital-punishment criminal-conviction dna-evidence due-process false-evidence habeas-corpus jury-verdict misleading-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct unreliable-evidence | 1. Whether due process of law requires reversal, where a capital conviction is so infected with errors that the State no longer seeks to defend it. 2… |
| 22-6421 | Sergio Garcia-Lara v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-12-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process presentence-report sentencing unreliable-evidence | Whether, in cases where a party seeks appellate relief on the ground that a district court has considered unreliable information, the district court m… |
| 22-5749 | Justin Jamal Warner v. South Carolina | South Carolina | 2022-10-04 | Dismissed | IFP | criminal-defendant-rights criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification in-camera-hearing law-enforcement-procedure out-of-court-identification police-misconduct reliability-standard surveillance-video unreliable-evidence video-identification | Whether a criminal defendant is entitled to an in camera hearing pursuant to Neil v. Biggers, 408 U.S. 188 (1972) on the reliability of an out-of-cour… |
| 20-5929 | Tommy Lee Jones v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-10-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2g2.2(b)(5) burden-of-proof criminal-procedure offense-conduct police-report restitution sentencing-guidelines shepard-standard shepard-v-united-states unreliable-evidence | Can the government utilize an unreliable nearly thirty (30) year old police report to satisfy its burden the sentencing guideline five (5) level enhan… |