witness-vouching
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24A1265 | Charles L. Payne, II v. Ohio | Ohio | 2025-06-23 | Presumed Complete | due-process fourteenth-amendment harmless-error prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment witness-vouching | Does a trial court violate a defendant's rights under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments when it permits prosecutorial and police vouching for a witn… | |
| 24-5961 | James A. Bell v. Michele Dauzat, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2024-11-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment constitutional-violation due-process prosecutorial-misconduct trial-fairness witness-vouching | 1. WHETHER A PROSECUTOR'S "BOLSTERING" OF A WITNESS TO U.S. v. YOUNG'S WHERE THE "BOLSTERING" ATTESTING TO THE TESTIMONY IS A PERMISSIBLE EXCEPTION PR… |
| 20-6025 | Steven McManus v. Mary Vann, Superintendent, Altona Correctional Facility | Second Circuit | 2020-10-15 | Denied | IFP | burden-of-proof emotional-appeals evidence-mischaracterization fair-trial inflammatory-statements prosecutorial-misconduct vouching witness-vouching | Whether the cumulative effect of the prosecutor continually referencing matters not in evidence; her vouching for her witnesses; her acting as an unsw… |
| 18-7769 | Demetrius Hill v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-02-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-violation constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence government-misconduct ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel new-trial sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment witness-credibility witness-vouching | Do exculpatory recordings that were purposefully withheld by the government warrant a new trial? Did the district court err in failing to determine t… |