No. 19-7235

Trevon Gross v. United States

Lower Court: Second Circuit
Docketed: 2020-01-09
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: daubert due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay prosecutorial-discretion
Key Terms:
DueProcess FifthAmendment Privacy JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: 2020-02-21
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Should the Government be able to convert an expert witness into a summary witness?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. Should the Government be able to convert an expert witness into a summary witness by supplying one of several possible accounting methodologies, and thereby evade the notice requirements of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 16 and avoid scrutiny under Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharm., 509 U.S. 579, 597 (1993), as the Second Circuit held below? 2. Ina multi-defendant, multi-object conspiracy, if a defendant undisputedly and unequivocally severs all ties with a declarant, can the declarant’s statements be introduced against the defendant as non-hearsay co-conspirator statements simply because the defendant continues to associate with a third-party tangentially linked to the conspiracy, or must an ongoing agency relationship between the declarant and the defendant exist to qualify the statements for the coconspirator exception to the hearsay rule? 3. Is it a violation of a defendant’s due process rights for the Government to abuse its prosecutorial discretion to intimidate all defense witnesses who otherwise would have provided exculpatory testimony by strategically claiming that those witnesses had criminal exposure at the close of the Government’s four-week trial, even though several of the witnesses had previously been on the Government’s own witness list? i

Docket Entries

2020-02-24
Petition DENIED.
2020-01-23
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/21/2020.
2020-01-15
Waiver of right of respondent United States of America to respond filed.
2020-01-07
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due February 10, 2020)

Attorneys

Trevon Gross
Kristen Marie SantilloGelber & Santillo PLL C, Petitioner
Kristen Marie SantilloGelber & Santillo PLL C, Petitioner
United States of America
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent
Noel J. FranciscoSolicitor General, Respondent