authentication
9 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25A290 | Christopher Matthew Henderson v. Alabama | Alabama | 2025-09-12 | Presumed Complete | authentication capital-murder confrontation-clause evidentiary-authentication protection-order service-of-process | Whether the Confrontation Clause requires live testimony from a sheriff's deputy to authenticate a protection order's return of service in a capital m… | |
| 23-7279 | Charles K. Wallace v. Louisiana | Fifth Circuit | 2024-04-19 | Dismissed | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | authentication civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-court-filings fraud habeas-corpus jury-trial standing subject-matter-jurisdiction | Is the U.S. Department of Justice under a duty to enforce accurate federal court filings therein federal district courts to comply with 18 U.S.C. §102… |
| 23-6343 | Patrick Bowie v. Mark Miller, Superintendent, Green Haven Correctional Facility | Second Circuit | 2023-12-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | authentication confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process evidence-authentication hearsay ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-v-washington | Is the right to confrontation violated when inculpatory letters are admitted into evidence without a statement by a handwriting expert? |
| 21-5434 | Demontrae Wilson v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-08-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | authentication circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence evidentiary-standards lay-witness social-media social-media-evidence | Proper authentication for social-media evidence |
| 21-5087 | Zachary Gage Pebley v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-07-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | authentication chain-of-custody criminal-procedure deepfakes digital-evidence digital-recordings due-process voice-identification | Whether the government's burden of establishing authentication and chain of custody for digital recordings is sufficient to protect a criminal defenda… |
| 21-5009 | Eddie Tarver v. Maryland | Maryland | 2021-07-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion appellate-review authentication cell-phone-evidence civil-procedure evidence evidence-authentication harmless-error judicial-discretion photographic-evidence | Whether the Court of Special Appeals abused its discretion by deciding that the Circuit Court's error, admitting in evidence certain pictures from a c… |
| 20-6205 | Alfred E. Caraffa v. United States District Court for the District of Arizona | Ninth Circuit | 2020-11-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | authentication civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-misconduct standing | Whether the court documents submitted were fraudulent, with the same judge's name and position, but different signatures |
| 18-6573 | Malik Farrad v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-11-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment authentication circuit-split corpus-delicti due-process facebook hearsay police-action social-media | Is the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals' lower standard of authentication for social media postings in conflict with other circuits, violating due proce… |
| 18-5273 | Davian Wilson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-07-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | authentication criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sufficiency-of-evidence criminal-trial evidence-authentication federal-criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction guilty-verdict jury-verdict native-american reasonable-jury sentencing-disparities sentencing-disparity standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether the district court erred in finding sufficient evidence for a guilty verdict against Mr. Wilson |