witness-impeachment
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6208 | Matthew Peckham v. Rhode Island | Rhode Island | 2025-11-24 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | bias-evidence cross-examination fourteenth-amendment juvenile-records sixth-amendment witness-impeachment | 1. Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments permit a state court to bar all cross-examination of a key prosecution witness concerning her own juven… |
| 25-237 | Bruce Mason v. Delaware, et al. | Third Circuit | 2025-08-28 | Denied | Response Waived | brady-violation circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process prosecutorial-disclosure witness-impeachment | 1. Whether the State's failure to disclose that its centerpiece witness was admitted to a psychiatric hospital prior to testifying, which was discover… |
| 25-5322 | Derrick Lloyd v. Robert Morton | Second Circuit | 2025-08-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review due-process ineffective-assistance race-testimony strickland-standard witness-impeachment | Whether Certiorari should be granted to resolve a conflict between the Court of Appeals Second Circuit and the United States District Court, Eastern D… |
| 24-7496 | Allen Odell Woods v. Keithe Turner, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2025-06-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-violation constitutional-claim criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct witness-impeachment | Was counsel's performance deficient when counsel failed to raise a Brady claim concerning Cellphone Transcripts, Fingerprint Analysis Reports, and Sup… |
| 24-6880 | Charles Christopher Wendell v. Florida | Florida | 2025-03-27 | Denied | IFP | due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment witness-impeachment | GROUND ONE: WHETHER THE FAILURE TO ADEQUATELY IMPEACH A WITNESS, IN A WHOLLY CREDIBILITY CASE, CONSTITUTES A VIOLATION OF THE SIXTH AMENDMENT 'S GUA… |
| 23-7699 | Levoyd A. Jones v. Angela Hunsinger-Stuff, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2024-06-12 | Denied | IFP | 6th-amendment brady-violation criminal-procedure direct-evidence due-process evidence ineffective-assistance jurisdiction sixth-amendment trial-counsel uncharged-crime witness-impeachment | I. Whether evidence of an uncharged crime that occured two years after the time-frame of the indictment can be used as direct evidence linking the def… |
| 23-7492 | Trezith Rashad Smart v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-05-17 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | federal-rules-of-evidence findings fourth-circuit-court judicial-error motion-to-dismiss prior-inconsistent-statement speedy-trial-act witness-impeachment zedner-v-united-states | Whether the Fourth Circuit Appellate Court commit clear or plain error, relying on findings made 6 days after Judge orally ruled on motion to dismiss… |
| 23-6713 | Tai A. Pham v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-02-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miller-el-v-cockrell supreme-court-standards witness-impeachment | Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeal's analysis of Tai A. Pham's application for a certificate of appealability conflicts with the relevant st… |
| 23-6257 | Randall Scott Jordan v. Texas | Texas | 2023-12-14 | Denied | IFP | brady brady-violation criminal-history due-process impeachment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment suppression-of-evidence witness-credibility witness-impeachment | No. 1 Randall Scott Jordan/petitioner/ contends that external impediments,(State's w witness,(Galvan) extensive violent criminal history and gang aff… |
| 22-7739 | Robert L. Swinton, Jr. v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-06-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process firearms-statute jurisdiction speedy-trial standing tenth-amendment witness-impeachment | 1. Is 18.U.S.C. § 922(g) constitutional and was Tenth Amendment jurisdiction maintained for firearms alleged in this case? 2. Was this a violation of… |
| 22-7222 | Ray Dansby v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction | Eighth Circuit | 2023-04-05 | Denied | IFP | bias confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process informant jailhouse-informant witness-impeachment | To secure Ray Dansby's conviction and death sentence, the State relied heavily on the testimony of a jailhouse informant to whom Dansby purportedly co… |
| 22-6077 | William Donnell, III v. Eddie Caley, Warden, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2022-11-16 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process extrinsic-evidence impeachment lead-detective right-to-present-defense trial-court-error trial-error witness-impeachment | 1. Did the trial court, by prohibiting me from impeaching the lead detective with extrinsic evidence specifically contradicting his testimony on direc… |
| 22-5131 | Terry Gillard v. California | California | 2022-07-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment witness-impeachment | Whether the California court's refusal to allow a witness to be impeached with his federal bank robbery conviction violated petitioner's clearly estab… |
| 21-5687 | Darrell Hochhalter v. Jason Clendenion, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2021-09-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment confrontation-clause due-process false-evidence impeachment plain-error recent-fabrication witness-impeachment | 1.) As some jurisdictions have rules regarding recent fabrication and others do not; does "recent fabrication " rise to the same significance as "fals… |
| 21-397 | Juan Joe Cano v. Texas | Texas | 2021-09-13 | Denied | Response Waived | contamination-of-accusations due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-inconsistent-statements procedural-due-process prosecutorial-misconduct sexual-abuse suggestive-questioning witness-impeachment | I. Was petitioner denied the effective assistance of counsel because trial counsel failed to impeach the complainants with their prior inconsistent st… |
| 20-8270 | Maurice A. Jackson v. Kevin Ransom, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. | Third Circuit | 2021-06-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | court-of-appeals criminal-procedure dna-testing evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-standard standard-of-review trial-counsel witness-impeachment | 1. Did the third circuit court err in deferring to the Court of Common Pleas finding that Mr. Jackson was not prejudiced by trial counsel not having k… |
| 20-8216 | Justin Michael Wilson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-06-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-violation brandishing carjacking carjacking-statute criminal-intent due-process firearm firearm-possession intent prosecutorial-misconduct serious-bodily-injury witness-impeachment | 1. In Holloway v. United States, 526 U.S. 1 (1999), this Court held that an "empty threat" of violence is not sufficient to demonstrate that a person … |
| 20-7886 | Shirl A. Stephen v. United States | District of Columbia | 2021-04-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process evidence fifth-amendment sentencing witness-impeachment | D.C. Code § 14-305 establishes the method upon which a witness may be impeached by a criminal "conviction," which the District's case law defines as a… |
| 20-7729 | Casey Rose v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-04-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | competency-hearing confrontation-clause cooperating-witness cross-examination due-process impeachment indiana-v-edwards self-representation witness-impeachment | Whether the termination of cross-examination of a cooperating with incentives to lie prior to being able to impeach the witness violated the confronta… |
| 20-6045 | Aaron E. Choat v. Rick Coursey, Superintendent, Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution | Ninth Circuit | 2020-10-16 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | collateral-review exculpatory-evidence impeachment ineffective-assistance non-unanimous-jury ramos-v-louisiana sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-retroactivity witness-impeachment | I. Whether counsel provides ineffective assistance in violation of the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution when he fails to introduce ex… |
| 20-5905 | Travon Jarvel Jackson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-10-05 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility federal-rules-of-evidence rule-412 rule-608b sex-trafficking sixth-amendment witness-impeachment | A. Whether evidence of prior prostitution activity that is inadmissible under Rule 412 of the Federal Rules of Evidence to rebut a claim of sex traffi… |
| 18-9666 | Jose Hernandez v. Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 2019-06-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment prejudice-standard prosecutorial-disclosure prosecutorial-misconduct witness-impeachment | 1. Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is violated where, in reviewing a defendant's a Fourteenth Amendment Due Process violati… |
| 18-9556 | Charles R. Willard v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation | Ninth Circuit | 2019-06-05 | Denied | IFP | certificate-of-appealability inconsistent-testimony ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health mental-illness prejudice prior-convictions prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-mitigation trial-counsel witness-credibility witness-impeachment | 1. Is the low threshold for a certificate of appealability ("COA") met on a claim that trial counsel provided prejudicially deficient performance when… |
| 18-9239 | Dale Shoop v. Ralph Terry, Acting Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2019-05-13 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel preliminary-hearing right-to-testify sixth-amendment victim-testimony witness-impeachment witness-presence witness-testimony | 1. Was the Petitioner's Constitutional Sixth Amendment Right to Effective Assistance of Counsel violated when Counsel; (1) Failed to Admit the Victim'… |
| 18-6486 | In Re Steve G. Hernandez | 2018-10-29 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | brady-material brady-violation civil-rights criminal-procedure cumulative-error due-process evidence-suppression impeachment ineffective-assistance perjury witness-impeachment | (A) WHAT IS CONSTITUTIONAL VIOLATION OF INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL WHEN: Trial counsel Quintino did not Investigate and Properly examine the FR… | |
| 18-35 | Pennsylvania v. Roderick Andre Johnson | Pennsylvania | 2018-07-05 | Denied | brady-analysis Brady-materiality confessions constitutional-procedure corroborating-evidence criminal-confession criminal-procedure due-process materiality prosecutorial-disclosure witness-impeachment | 1. Whether the prosecution's nondisclosure of arguably impeaching information relating to a witness who linked the defendant with two murders can be m… |