chain-of-custody

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-6446 Larayna Manning v. Kentucky Kentucky 2025-02-03 Denied IFP chain-of-custody constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment sixth-amendment speedy-trial Whether the delay in trial and chain of custody of evidence violated the defendant's constitutional rights to a speedy trial and due process
24-5509 James Rashad Clay v. Roy Odum, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP chain-of-custody constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process forensic-evidence witness-testimony Whether the November hair/shotgun residue report under Division of Forensic Sciences Case was properly handled and admitted as evidence
23-7156 Robert Shields v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP chain-of-custody chemical-identity constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-distribution due-process evidence evidence-standard Does the Constitutional right to due process of law require some evidence that a drug that resulted in death was chemically identical to the drug a De…
23-1017 Marc Thielman, et al. v. Lavonne Griffin-Valade, Oregon Secretary of State, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-03-15 Denied Response Waived ballot-security ballot-trafficking chain-of-custody election-integrity election-process public-confidence signature-verification standing-doctrine vote-by-mail voter-confidence voter-rolls Do Petitioners have standing to challenge Oregon's vote-by-mail election system due to the loss of their freedom caused by Oregon's confidence-destroy…
23-582 Rollo A. Barker, aka Rollo Narker v. New Jersey New Jersey 2023-11-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 6th-amendment chain-of-custody confrontation-clause criminal-evidence evidence forensic-analysis lab-analysis lab-testimony melendez-diaz melendez-diaz-precedent sixth-amendment Does testimony from a lab analyst who did not perform the actual testing on Defendant's seized (alleged) contraband that was analyzed by a State Polic…
23-5829 Luis Rios v. Patrick Covello, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-10-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-limitations chain-of-custody factual-predicate habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice-prong statute-of-limitations When determining the one-year limitations period under 28 U.S.C. §2244(d)(1)(D) of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) for an in…
23-5278 Earl Monroe Belcher v. Brian Williams, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-08-03 Denied IFP chain-of-custody constitutional-rights district-court dna-evidence due-process federal-law habeas-corpus hearsay ineffective-assistance reasonable-doubt unreasonable-application Whether the District Court's decision was an unreasonable application of clearly established federal law
22-7671 Eduardo Catarino Palacios v. Texas Texas 2023-05-31 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP brady-violation chain-of-custody due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct texas-criminal-procedure Was the prosecutor allowed to override the habeas court's findings of fact and conclusions of law?
21-6620 Tormu Prall v. Andrew J. Bruck, Acting Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2021-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP chain-of-custody criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-tampering fundamental-fairness prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony Whether the steps the petitioner proposed for regaining access to those letters are a 'watershed rule implicating the fundamental fairness and accurac…
21-5932 Michael R. Burns v. United States First Circuit 2021-10-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP chain-of-custody civil-rights dna-fabrication due-process evidence-substitution evidence-tampering fabrication forensic-evidence forensic-integrity laboratory-procedure substitution Whether the DNA and fingerprint evidence was fabricated by substituting the gloves examined for fingerprints with different gloves examined for DNA, r…
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…
20-8467 Cyrus Casby v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP chain-of-custody civil-rights constitutional-standards criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process evidence-contamination expert-qualification expert-testimony scientific-procedure testing-guidelines Whether the contaminated exonerating evidence was misused to convict
20-8430 Samuel Gayden v. Illinois Illinois 2021-06-24 Denied IFP chain-of-custody criminal-procedure dna-evidence evidence-admissibility fair-trial ineffective-assistance jury-instructions lay-opinion prosecutorial-misconduct trial-procedure witness-identification Whether the State misused DNA evidence to link Petitioner to the weapon used in the offense, and to alleged threatening letters sent from the Cook Cou…
20-6654 Gabino Romero v. Raymond Madden, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-12-18 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment chain-of-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-rulings fair-trial jury-instructions prejudice search-and-seizure standing Whether the conduct of the United States in conducting research prior to deliberation on a trial judge's decision violated the 4th Amendment
19-7228 Jerry Carter v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-01-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP chain-of-custody confidential-informant confrontation-clause criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-8th-amendment-confrontation-cla criminal-procedure-ineffective-assistance-of-couns eighth-circuit evidence harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel napue-violation strickland-standard Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in rejecting the Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred
19-6837 Anzara Brown v. Dana Metzger, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2019-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland chain-of-custody civil-rights confidential-informant constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-disclosure exculpatory-evidence forensic-evidence medical-examiners witness-testimony Whether the state of Delaware can withhold exculpatory evidence relating to the state's office of medical examiners officials, denying true evidence f…
18-8847 Javier Bocanegra, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP chain-of-custody cocaine-conspiracy conspiracy controlled-substances cooperating-witnesses credibility criminal-conspiracy criminal-law deferred-adjudication drug-offense-enhancement evidence full-faith-and-credit reasonable-doubt Is there insufficient evidence for a conspiracy to transport cocaine conviction based upon the testimony of cooperating witnesses who are not credible…
18-1286 Brian D. Baur v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-04-10 Denied Response Waived castle-doctrine chain-of-custody civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-preservation ineffective-counsel law-of-the-case prosecutorial-misconduct reassignment sentencing standing use-of-force Whether the Law of the Case Doctrine is an issue in this case