witness-bias
7 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-6560 | Tony Daniel Klein v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2026-01-13 | Pending | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-defense criminal-procedure evidence-exclusion sixth-amendment witness-bias | Does a court violate a criminal defendant's constitutional right to present a defense by excluding the strongest evidence supporting the sole theory o… |
| 24-1265 | Glenn E. Diaz v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-06-12 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-procedure cross-examination judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent witness-bias | 1. Whether a district court can completely bar defense counsel from cross-examining a key government witness on an issue probative of bias and motive.… |
| 24-5534 | Anthony Wayne Hawkins v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-09-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause cooperating-witness due-process law-enforcement-database pretextual-stop witness-bias | (1) Whether and to what extent the Confrontation Clause of the 6th Amendment should contain the right to address the amount of a benefit that a co-ope… |
| 23-7774 | Pablo Santana Arellano v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-06-21 | Denied | IFP | co-conspirator-testimony co-conspirators confrontation-clause confrontation-rights criminal-procedure sentencing-agreements sixth-amendment witness-bias | Whether, under the Sixth Amendment to the United State Constitution, defendants may be prohibited from asking cooperating witnesses, and former co-con… |
| 23-6420 | Orlando S. Burgos v. Martin Gamboa, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2024-01-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bias confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination habeas-corpus harmless-error motive-to-lie sole-evidence witness-bias | Petitioner Orlando Burgos was deprived of his Confrontation Clause right to cross-examine his accuser—the key prosecution witness—that he received a b… |
| 23-6023 | David Sattazahn v. Laurel Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. | Third Circuit | 2023-11-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-disclosure brady-violation due-process giglio-disclosure giglio-v-united-states habeas-corpus plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct united-states-v-bagley witness-bias witness-inducement | Because there is a split in the Circuits on the issue, should this Court instruct the lower courts to uniformly apply the law that, under United State… |
| 18-6475 | Lewis Wright v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2018-10-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-violation confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination cross-examination-rights due-process evidence-disclosure fourteenth-amendment parole perjury prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment witness-bias | WHETHER THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS ERRED IN LIMITING MR. STEEN ABILITY TO ESTABLISH WITNESS JOSEPH FARLEY'S BIAS WHERE MR. STEIN WAS PREVENTED FROM INQ… |