witness-immunity

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-7034 Michael Carter v. Megan Hayes, et al. Third Circuit 2024-03-20 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process government-employee judicial-misconduct judicial-proceeding qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity witness-immunity Question not identified.
23-485 Jesus Arley Munera-Gomez v. United States First Circuit 2023-11-08 Denied compulsory-process constitutional-rights due-process entrapment entrapment-defense government-misconduct prosecutorial-discretion self-incrimination use-immunity witness-immunity witness-testimony Whether a defendant is constitutionally entitled to obtain use immunity for the only person who can disprove the defendant's guilt, when the Governmen…
22-785 Theryn Jones v. United States Second Circuit 2023-02-21 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment immunity self-incrimination sixth-amendment witness witness-immunity When, if ever, the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment requires vacatur of a criminal conviction based on the government's refusal to seek immun…
21-440 Miguel Angel Santana v. Maryland Maryland 2021-09-22 Denied Amici (3)Response Waived constitutional-integrity constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process false-testimony government-misconduct immunity-agreements prosecutorial-misconduct witness-immunity Whether, when a government witness provides material false testimony about an immunity agreement and the government fails to correct that false testim…
20-5357 Anthony Collymore v. Connecticut Connecticut 2020-08-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP compulsory-process due-process fair-trial immunity prosecutorial-misconduct self-incrimination statutory-immunity witness-immunity Whether the petitioner's rights to due process of law, compulsory process and fair trial were violated, and whether the petitioner should be required …
19-5614 Robert Ricks v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP compulsory-process criminal-procedure defense-witness due-process fifth-amendment immunity perjury perjury-threat prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment witness-immunity witness-intimidation Whether the grant of use and derivative use immunity to a defense witness, which specifically excluded any "prosecution for perjury, giving a false st…
18-772 Erasmo Aviles, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-12-18 Denied compulsory-process constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence exculpatory-testimony government-interests immunity prosecutorial-misconduct self-incrimination witness-immunity Does due process require a court to compel the government, on pain of dismissal, to seek immunity for an essential defense witness if government's int…
18-257 Monty Bauch, Individually and as Father and Next Friend of O. B., a Minor, et al. v. Richland County Children Services, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-08-30 Denied child-removal civil-rights complaining-witness due-process due-process-rights ex-parte ex-parte-order magistrate-testimony qualified-immunity removal-order social-worker social-worker-immunity standing witness-immunity 1) Whether a social worker is entitled to absolute immunity when she makes false statements and omits highly relevant information as a complaining wit…