No. 25-6352

Marcus Allen Cooper v. Virginia

Lower Court: Virginia
Docketed: 2025-12-12
Status: Pending
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: complete-defense credibility-challenge evidence-exclusion fourteenth-amendment trial-court-discretion witness-fabrication
Key Terms:
DueProcess
Latest Conference: 2026-02-20
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether a trial court abridges the defendant's Fourteenth Amendment right to present a complete defense by excluding evidence that the sole inculpatory witness fabricated evidence against the defendant in a case that turned entirely on that witness's credibility

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

Whether a trial court abridges the defendant’s Fourteenth Amendment right to present a complete defense by excluding evidence that the sole inculpatory witness fabricated evidence against the defendant in a case that turned entirely on that witness’s credibility.

Docket Entries

2026-01-22
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/20/2026.
2025-12-10
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due January 12, 2026)

Attorneys

Marcus Cooper
Blake Andrew WeinerBlake Weiner Law, PLLC, Petitioner
Blake Andrew WeinerBlake Weiner Law, PLLC, Petitioner