alternative-perpetrator

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-6317 James Anthony Gray v. Kentucky Kentucky 2025-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP alternative-perpetrator due-process fourteenth-amendment kentucky-constitution structural-error supreme-court-rule Did the failure by the Kentucky Supreme Court to adjudicate the claims of error challenging the two murder convictions deny Anthony of his right to a …
23-937 Joshua James Duggar v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-02-28 Denied alternative-perpetrator complete-defense constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-exclusion trial-court trial-court-discretion Does the exclusion of relevant evidence of an alternative perpetrator based on a trial court's conclusion it is too speculative violate a criminal def…
23A737 Byron Ray Barker v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-02-08 Presumed Complete aedpa alternative-perpetrator child-sexual-abuse habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel was violated when trial counsel failed to present alternative perpetrator evidenc…
22-6772 Marion Bowman, Jr. v. Bryan P. Stirling, Commissioner, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-02-14 Denied IFP alternative-perpetrator brady-materiality brady-v-maryland capital-sentencing exculpatory-evidence giglio-v-united-states habeas-corpus kyles-v-whitley materiality prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility Was the Fourth Circuit's finding of no materiality of the suppressed evidence inconsistent with this Court's clearly established precedents?
19-6411 Tyler Joseph Barefield v. Arkansas Arkansas 2019-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP alternative-perpetrator alternative-perpetrator-evidence constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidence right-to-defense right-to-present-defense state-evidentiary-requirements state-evidentiary-rules To what extent may a State restrict the ability of a defendant to present evidence tending to establish that another person committed the offense?