autopsy-report
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-6670 | Charles Victor Thompson v. Texas | Texas | 2026-01-27 | Denied | IFP | autopsy-report confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process medical-evidence sixth-amendment | Did the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals err when it failed to apply this Court's holdings in Smith v. Arizona, 602 U.S. __ (2024) and Crawford v. Wash… |
| 24-5544 | Evan Wald v. New York | New York | 2024-09-13 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | autopsy-report confrontation-clause crawford-standard criminal-procedure homicide-investigation testimonial-evidence | Whether a certified autopsy report—created as part of a homicide investigation and asserting that the cause of death was homicide—is "testimonial" und… |
| 24A172 | Evan Wald v. New York | New York | 2024-08-13 | Presumed Complete | autopsy-report confrontation-clause criminal-evidence cross-examination sixth-amendment testimonial-hearsay | Whether an autopsy report created in conjunction with a homicide investigation and finding the cause of death to be a homicide is "testimonial" under … | |
| 23-1181 | Gail M. Ritchey v. Ohio | Ohio | 2024-05-01 | Denied | Amici (1) | autopsy-report confrontation-clause criminal-investigation criminal-procedure evidence hearsay-evidence medical-examiner medical-examiner-testimony sixth-amendment | Does the admission of an autopsy report and testimony from a doctor who neither participated in the autopsy nor prepared the report violate the Sixth … |
| 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 | Akin to Justice Sotomayor's Bullcoming v. New Mexico, 564 U.S. 647, 672-74 (2011) scenario; To what extent are Sixth Amendment guarantees of Confronta… |
| 22-5426 | Joseph Antonetti v. Timothy Filson, Warden, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-08-23 | Denied | IFP | autopsy-report certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause crawford-precedent crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-examiner | Did the courts below err in denying a Certificate of Appealability to review the holdings of the district court and the Nevada Supreme Court that Mr. … |
| 21-637 | William Lee, Superintendent, Eastern Correctional Facility v. James Garlick | Second Circuit | 2021-11-01 | Denied | autopsy-report confrontation-clause deference habeas-corpus harmless-error testimonial | 1. In granting habeas corpus relief to a state court prisoner, did the Second Circuit create a circuit split and deny the state court judgment the def… | |
| 21-5294 | Wilshaun King v. Mike Brown, Acting Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2021-08-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | autopsy-report confrontation-clause criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medical-examiner plea-bargaining plea-offer right-to-counsel sixth-amendment | I. PETITIONER'S TRIAL COUNSEL WAS APPROACHED AT THE TIME THE JURY RETIRED FOR DELIBEARITONS BY PROSECUTING ATTORNEY SCOTT EHLFELDT TENDERING A PLEA O… |
| 20-5344 | Christopher Taylor v. Illinois | Illinois | 2020-08-13 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP | 6th-amendment autopsy-report cause-of-death confrontation-clause criminal-procedure knowing-murder lesser-included-offense murder-charge sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence | Whether a defendant is denied his Sixth Amendment right to be confronted with the witnesses against him where a court admits into evidence a certified… |
| 19-8803 | Bennie Adams v. Ohio | Ohio | 2020-06-24 | Denied | IFP | autopsy-report confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure evidence-law sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence | Is an autopsy report testimonial evidence that demands confrontation under Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36 (2004), and the Sixth Amendment to the … |
| 18-9555 | Kenneth Thomas v. Robert Marsh, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Benner Township | Third Circuit | 2019-06-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | autopsy-report confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington cross-examination fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel melendez-diaz-v-massachusetts sixth-amendment strickland-standard testimonial-evidence | WHETHER THIS COURT SHOULD CONSIDER IF THE INTRODUCTION OF AN AUTOPSY REPORT WHICH WAS PRESENTED AS SUBSTANTIVE EVIDENCE BUT NOT TESTIFIED TO BY ITS AU… |
| 18-5399 | Joseph Andrew Perez v. California | California | 2018-07-30 | Denied | IFP | autopsy-report autopsy-reports confrontation-clause crawford-standard crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure homicide-investigation homicide-investigations sixth-amendment testimonial testimonial-evidence | Whether an autopsy report created as part of a homicide investigation, and asserting that the death was caused by homicide, is "testimonial" under the… |
| 25A847 | Charles Victor Thompson v. Texas | Texas | Denied | autopsy-report capital-murder confrontation-clause medical-examiner sixth-amendment surrogate-testimony | Question not identified. |