No. 24-6591

Kimberly Sponaugle v. United States

Lower Court: Third Circuit
Docketed: 2025-02-19
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: criminal-procedure expert-disclosure expert-witness-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence lay-opinion wire-fraud
Key Terms:
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Latest Conference: 2025-03-21
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the trial court erred in allowing prosecution expert witnesses to provide lay opinion testimony without making mandatory expert witness disclosures under F.R.Cr.P. 16(a)(1)(G)

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

Whether the trial court erred as a matter of law in ruling that F.R.E. 701 permitted the prosecution to present in its casein-chief lay opinion testimony of three expert witnesses, a certified public accountant, an accountant, and an FBI forensic accountant , without providing F.R.Cr.P. 16(a)(1)(G) summaries of the opinions of the prosecution’s experts? [iii]

Docket Entries

2025-03-24
Petition DENIED.
2025-02-27
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/21/2025.
2025-02-25
Waiver of United States of right to respond submitted.
2025-02-25
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2025-02-13
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due March 21, 2025)

Attorneys

Kimberly Sponaugle
John S. MalikJohn S. Malik, Attorney-at-Law, Petitioner
United States
Sarah M. HarrisActing Solicitor General, Respondent