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25-5515 Jessie Smith, III v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-09-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-disclosure constitutional-safeguards criminal-procedure due-process revocation-hearing supervised-release Does the Due Process Clause require that district courts apply the constitutional safeguards of Brady v. Maryland when a defendant faces a revocation …
25A224 Thomas Mitchell Overton v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-26 Presumed Complete brady-disclosure dna-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment standard-of-review Whether the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel and Brady v. Maryland disclosure requirements are properly evaluated under the de…
24-6279 Dickens Etienne v. Michelle Edmark, Warden First Circuit 2025-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-disclosure exculpatory-evidence first-degree-murder habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct self-defense Where there was suppressed exculpatory evidence, in the form of a proffer letter demonstrating that a key prosecution witness who provided significant…
24-125 Ahmed Alahmedalabdaloklah v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-08-05 Denied brady-disclosure brady-obligations conspiracy criminal-law criminal-statute due-process extraterritorial-application extraterritoriality-jurisdiction federal-agencies federal-agency improvised-explosive-devices statutory-interpretation Whether 18 U.S.C. 844(f) and (n) apply extraterritorially to offenses committed abroad by non-U.S. persons, despite the statute's lack of any affirmat…
23-6023 David Sattazahn v. Laurel Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2023-11-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-disclosure brady-violation due-process giglio-disclosure giglio-v-united-states habeas-corpus plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct united-states-v-bagley witness-bias witness-inducement Whether prosecutors must disclose inducements provided to witnesses, even in the absence of an agreement with express terms
23-5905 Daniel Kristof Lak v. California California 2023-10-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP brady brady-disclosure conflict-of-interest conflicts-of-interest criminal-investigation criminal-procedure due-process impeachment-evidence law-enforcement law-enforcement-witness prosecutorial-ethics witness Whether a prosecutor's duty to disclose exculpatory and impeachment information under Brady should be extended to include mandating the disclosure of …
22-7208 Sherry Rock v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2023-04-04 Denied IFP brady-disclosure common-law common-law-access first-amendment judicial-records police-reports public-access public-access-to-judicial-records sealing-order standing standing-to-challenge-sealing-orders Whether petitioner lacks standing to bring First Amendment challenge to sealed police reports
22-6822 Timothy Alan Dunlap v. Idaho Idaho 2023-02-21 Denied IFP brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence materiality-standard prosecutorial-misconduct Whether a defendant's ability to independently obtain exculpatory evidence is relevant to a Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963) claim?
22-6310 Terence Sandy McCray v. Michael Capra, Superintendent, Sing Sing Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2022-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland criminal-procedure due-process evidence-disclosure pennsylvania-v-ritchie psychiatric-records second-circuit-court-of-appeals When a trial court reviews complainant's psychiatric records for Brady material, must it disclose all records that may affect the outcome, or can it r…
22-6046 Terrioues Owney v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland constitutional-rights cooperating-witness due-process late-disclosure materiality materiality-standard new-trial witness-credibility Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit deny Owney's right to constitutional due process by applying an erroneous standard in ass…
22-5916 Randy Lee Lassiter, Jr. v. Virginia Virginia 2022-10-26 Denied IFP brady-disclosure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial Whether the government's failure to disclose exculpatory evidence violated the petitioner's due process rights and right to a fair trial
22-5900 Robert Bethel v. Ohio Ohio 2022-10-25 Denied IFP brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence guilty-plea impeachment-evidence united-states-v-ruiz Whether there is a fundamental difference between material exculpatory and impeachment evidence when a guilty plea is involved, and does due process r…
22-5560 Tyrone Learone McCurdy v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-09-13 Denied IFP brady-disclosure brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process perjury prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-fair-trial witness-tampering witness-testimony Has the prosecutor suborned perjury?
22-5450 Jermaine Crump v. Joe Errington, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-disclosure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression habeas-corpus harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review Whether the district court erred in finding that Crump received effective assistance of trial counsel
22-77 David Brown v. Louisiana Louisiana 2022-07-27 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (7) brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland criminal-evidence criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence favorable-evidence material-evidence materiality-standard third-party-confession Whether a defendant's due process rights are violated when another person's confession stating that he and someone else committed the criminal act, wi…
22-5037 Stephen Todd Booker v. Florida Florida 2022-07-06 Denied IFP banks-v-dretke brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland constitutional-due-process criminal-procedure disclosure due-diligence due-process exculpatory-evidence government-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct May courts impose a due diligence requirement for Brady claims
21-7771 James Lamar Strickland v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-05-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-disclosure criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-fairness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice-standard sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the court of appeals improperly applied the prejudice standard articulated by this Court in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984)
21-7636 Ramon Lopez v. Angel Quiros, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction Connecticut 2022-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure disclosure due-diligence material-evidence material-favorable-evidence prosecuting-authority prosecutorial-evidence Does the rule set forth in Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), requiring that the government disclose material favorable evidence to a criminal def…
21-7186 Jon Hall v. Tony Mays, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-02-23 Denied IFP brady-disclosure brady-duty brady-material brady-v-maryland circuit-split constitutional-obligation evidence-disclosure governmental-entity prosecutorial-duty In circumstances where the favorable evidence lies in the hands of a governmental entity other than law enforcement or the prosecution, what is the pr…
21-7020 Charles David Gordon v. Joe A. Lizarraga, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-disclosure criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility mental-health segregation self-incrimination voluntariness voluntary-statements Whether a defendant's statements may be admitted into evidence when the statements were made while she was placed in segregated confinement based on m…
21-6412 Rebecca Stampe v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-11-24 GVR IFP brady-disclosure criminal-procedure due-process evidence-review government-disclosure in-camera-review materiality materiality-standard prosecutorial-discretion Can the district court, consistent with Brady and its progeny, refuse in camera review of evidence that is plausibly subject to disclosure under Brady…
21-6091 Harold Cook v. United States Second Circuit 2021-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland criminal-investigation criminal-procedure disclosure-requirements due-process exculpatory-evidence prosecutorial-duty witness-statement witness-statements Whether Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963) and its progeny require the prosecution to create a record of and preserve apparently exculpatory witnes…
21-6081 Gerund Mickens, aka Breeze v. United States Second Circuit 2021-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland confrontation-clause criminal-investigation due-process evidence-preservation fifth-amendment sixth-amendment Whether Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment, and the confrontation clause of the Sixth Amendment requ…
21-5438 Noe Gerardo Morin v. Bobby Lumpkin. Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-08-20 Denied IFP brady-disclosure confrontation-clause crawford-standard crawford-v-washington fundamental-fairness hearsay hearsay-statement ineffective-counsel non-testimonial prejudice right-to-confront testimonial Would a reasonable jurist find error in the District Court's assessment that hearsay statement in the case at bar was 'non testimonial' according to t…
21-5256 In Re Isaiah S. Harris, Sr. 2021-07-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence brady brady-disclosure circuit-split due-process impeachment-evidence newly-discovered-evidence newly-presented-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct whether-the-prosecutor's-obligation-under-brady-to-turn-over-evidence-stands-independent-of-the-defendant's-knowledge
20-1825 Jeffrey McClatchy v. Texas Texas 2021-07-01 Denied brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence guilty-plea plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct united-states-v-ruiz Whether due process entitles a defendant to exculpatory information pre-plea
20-7699 DeAngelo Horn v. Florida Florida 2021-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP admissibility banks-v-dretke brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence federal-habeas pretrial-discovery prosecutorial-misconduct Whether courts may impose a due diligence requirement for Brady claims that focuses on the defense rather than the government
20-1246 Anna Valentine, Warden v. Johnny Phillips Sixth Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland credibility-determination district-court expert-witness federal-civil-procedure federal-habeas habeas-corpus standard-of-review Did the Sixth Circuit violate Fed. Rule Civ. P. 52(a)(6) when it failed to apply the proper, heightened and deferential standard to the district court…
20-6676 Hernandez Daniels v. Florida Florida 2020-12-21 Denied IFP alibi alibi-defense brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland constitutional-procedure criminal-appeal due-process effective-assistance evidence-suppression strickland-v-washington Whether suppression of (some) evidence is sufficient according to the procedures mandated by Brady v. Maryland
20-6570 Brandon Bernard v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-08 Denied IFP brady-disclosure brady-violation death-penalty gang-affiliation government-misconduct napue-claim napue-violation procedural-default section-2255 successive-habeas successive-petition Where government action prevented Petitioner from bringing his claims under Brady and Napue in his initial § 2255 motion, should a second-in-time moti…
20-6397 Douglas Cornejo v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-disclosure brady-evidence confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process preliminary-hearing prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-present-defense witness-testimony Should a COA Have Been Granted to Decide If the Prosecutor's Failure to Disclose Brady Evidence Deprived Cornejo of His Right to Confront and Cross-Ex…
19-8647 Martin Diez v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2254 brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland cone-v-bell due-process federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Where the state courts did not address Petitioner's claim that the prosecution failed to disclose certain evidence under Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 8…
19-7534 Ricky Lee Scott v. Arkansas Arkansas 2020-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland brady-violation constitutional-rights coram-nobis disclosure-violations due-process evidence-disclosure evidence-suppression judicial-jurisdiction kyles-v-whitley police-misconduct Whether the Arkansas Supreme Court's refusal to re-invest jurisdiction in the trial court to consider petitioner Scott's petition for writ of error co…
19-7041 Pedro L. Ramirez-Rivera v. United States First Circuit 2019-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process exculpatory-evidence post-conviction post-conviction-relief post-conviction-review prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-appeal Whether the United States Attorneys are obliged to disclose exculpatory evidence known to exist after the defendant has been convicted by trial by jur…
19-6805 Hajes Rabaia v. Gubir Grewal, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied IFP brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland constitutional-amendments criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment judicial-review sixth-amendment supreme-court-precedent Does the holding of Brady v. Maryland apply to the petitioner?
19-6549 Jose Laureano Salgado v. United States First Circuit 2019-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland constitutional-rights criminal-appeal direct-appeal due-process exculpatory-evidence impeachment ongoing-disclosure pending-appeal prosecutorial-misconduct Does this Court's holding in Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963) require the Government to disclose, while an appeal is pending, exculpatory or impe…
19-6495 Brent Curtis Schwertz v. Richard Jennings, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-11-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP accidental-discharge americans-with-disabilities-act brady-disclosure brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process expert-witness firearms-examination ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mistrial right-to-counsel strickland-standard Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel
19-409 City of Cleveland, Ohio, et al. v. Ricky Jackson, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-09-26 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 42-usc-1988 brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland circuit-split civil-rights civil-rights-42-usc-1983 federal-law municipal-liability personal-injury personal-injury-claims qualified-immunity section-1983 section-1988 state-law state-law-survival-rule survival Whether §1988 requires the survival of §1983 claims to be determined using the state-law survival rule for the most closely analogous state cause of a…
19-5676 Jerel Leon Jordan v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-08-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment giglio-impeachment giglio-v-united-states good-faith-exception motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-warrant united-states-v-leon Whether a district court may consider evidence outside the warrant affidavit in determining good-faith exception
18-1342 Andrew Ndubisi Ucheomumu v. Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland Maryland 2019-04-25 Denied Response Waived attorney-discipline brady-v-maryland in-re-ruffalo quasi-criminal willner-v-committee 14th-amendment attorney-disciplinary-proceeding attorney-discipline brady-disclosure confrontation confrontation-rights due-process in-re-ruffalo prosecutorial-misconduct willner-v-committee Whether the State of Maryland violated Petitioner's 14th Amendment due process rights
18-1330 Gavin B. Davis v. Timothy G. O'Connor Ninth Circuit 2019-04-22 Denied Response Waived brady-disclosure brady-disclosures civil-rights civil-rights-removal due-process interlocutory-appeal parallel-claims removal removal-action state-criminal-proceeding Whether a state-to-federal removal action under 28 U.S.C. § 1443 qualifies for interlocutory appeal under 28 U.S.C. § 1292(a) or 1292(b)
18-7796 Domineque Ray v. Alabama Alabama 2019-02-06 Denied IFP brady-disclosure brady-evidence brady-v-maryland due-process fair-trial incarceration incarceration-records institutional-files mental-health-records postconviction-relief star-witness statute-of-limitations Does Brady v. Maryland require the State to obtain and produce to the defense all available prison or other incarceration or institutional files compr…
18-854 George Alvarez v. City of Brownsville, Texas Fifth Circuit 2019-01-04 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence monell-liability municipal-liability plea-agreement plea-bargaining united-states-v-ruiz Whether due process requires the government to disclose exculpatory evidence before entering a plea agreement with a criminal defendant
18-6970 Jose Antonio Jimenez v. Florida Florida 2018-12-10 Denied IFP brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland credibility due-process eighth-amendment exculpatory-evidence giglio-v-united-states giglio-violation lethal-injection materiality police-misconduct strategic-choices Whether a defendant's personal knowledge of an exculpatory or favorable fact relieves the State of its duty to disclose evidence
18-6336 Chamontae Walker v. United States District of Columbia 2018-10-16 Denied IFP brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland constitutional-rights criminal-procedure disclosure due-diligence due-process evidence evidence-disclosure exculpatory-evidence prosecutorial-duty Is the government relieved of its Brady v. Maryland duty to disclose evidence favorable to the accused if the defense could obtain the evidence throug…
18-6158 Makandi L. Terry v. Larry Abraham, Chief, Dillon County Detention Center Fourth Circuit 2018-10-01 Denied IFP brady-disclosure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction plea-bargaining standing Should Petitioner Feery's case be reversed and remanded based upon direct evidence of ineffective assistance of counsel in his failure to disclose any…
18-6094 Edgar Leopoldo Garcia-Martinez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland confidential-informant dea discovery drug-conspiracy due-process expert-testimony false-swearing irs prosecutorial-misconduct ssa Is the prosecution required to supply information concerning the failure to report income to the IRS and the SSA by the DEA and its confidential infor…
18-5225 Junaidu Saljan Savage, aka James Kamara v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-07-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts-of-appeal in-camera-review pennsylvania-v-ritchie precedent prosecutorial-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct ritchie standing Whether, under Pennsylvania v. Ritchie, 480 U.S. 39 (1987), defendants requesting in camera review for potential required disclosures in accordance wi…
18-5 Dennis Riley v. Ohio Washington 2018-07-02 Denied Response Waived brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland criminal-discovery discovery due-process exculpatory-evidence guilty-plea impeachment-evidence internal-investigations investigative-officer-misconduct plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct whether-defendant-entitled-to-impeachment-or-exculpatory-evidence-after-pleading-guilty