autopsy
5 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-689 | George Sharrod Johns v. Georgia | Georgia | 2025-12-12 | Pending | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse Waived | autopsy confrontation-clause criminal-procedure hearsay sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence | A forensic pathologist who performed an autopsy on a homicide victim was unavailable for trial. In her place, the State of Georgia offered testimony b… |
| 23-5976 | Brian Heath Davis v. Randy Gibbs, Warden, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2023-11-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | autopsy autopsy-report confrontation-clause criminal-procedure effective-assistance expert-testimony reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment | To what extent are Sixth Amendment guarantees of Confrontation and Effective Assistance violated when an expert conducts an autopsy, prepares an autop… |
| 21-7610 | Terry Smith v. Florida, et al. | Florida | 2022-04-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | autopsy autopsy-testimony confrontation-clause due-process evidence forensic-evidence hearsay medical-examiner sixth-amendment testimony | Does Florida's practice of allowing a medical examiner to testify to an autopsy he/she did not perform violate the Confrontation Clause? |
| 21-5607 | Terry R. Smith v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-09-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | autopsy autopsy-requirement black-lung-disease cause-of-death civil-rights compensation-claim criminal-procedure due-process evidence medical-evidence | Whether the defendant was convicted beyond a reasonable doubt due to the split decisions in the circuit court division |
| 20-5818 | Tyrone Johnston v. Kevin Ransom, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. | Third Circuit | 2020-09-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | autopsy certificate-of-appeal circuit-split confrontation-clause confrontation-rights constitutional-provisions district-court due-process habeas-corpus jurists-of-reason third-circuit | Did the Third Circuit err in denying a certificate of appeal (COA) |