child-witness
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-5898 | Jeremiah Bobb v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-10-15 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | child-witness constitutional-rights evidentiary-error ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment strategic-decision | A child-witness's initial interview with the authorities was recorded and the child un-equivocally stated that the Petitioner did not sexually assault… |
| 24-1159 | Jeffrey Clyde Pitts v. Mississippi | Mississippi | 2025-05-13 | Judgment Issued | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8) | child-witness confrontation-clause constitutional-rights courtroom-screening criminal-procedure trial-procedure | Whether the Confrontation Clause permits the use of a screen at trial that blocks a child witness's view of the defendant, without any individualized … |
| 24-7173 | Terrell Perkins v. Gregory Hancock, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2025-05-12 | Denied | IFP | child-witness confrontation-rights constitutional-procedure courtroom-testimony defendant-presence emotional-distress | Whether a defendant's confrontation rights under Craig, are violated when a court permits a minor child witness to testify outside the defendant's pre… |
| 22-530 | Daniel A. Bench v. United States | Armed Forces | 2022-12-08 | Denied | Response Waived | child-witness confrontation confrontation-right court-martial plain-error prosecutorial-misconduct remote-testimony sixth-amendment | Does a prosecutor's in-court lie to secure a witness's testimony constitute misconduct that materially prejudices an accused's Sixth Amendment right t… |
| 22-5577 | Marvin Davis v. Kevin Genovese, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2022-09-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-interview child-witness confrontation-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-counsel forensic-interviewer hearsay hearsay-statements sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation | (1) WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT ERRED IN ALLOWING THE CHILD VIDEO INTERVIEW AND WHETHER T.C.A. SECTION 24-7-123 IS [UNCONSTITUTIONAL? (2) WHETHER THE PET… |
| 21-5851 | Daniel Bryan Kelly, Jr. v. California | California | 2021-10-04 | Denied | IFP | child-witness confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial gang-related-crime ineffective-counsel trial-rights witness | • WM UaSn4 x allowed 4o -fixce. mw accuser or cross- examine. Won a\ final ? * WhW cJoulclo4 /AW A\4omeV5/ MarK S-taPlefioo . Trai/i S S4roud and Ste… |
| 20-7169 | Lawrence Nunley v. Richard Brown | Seventh Circuit | 2021-02-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-witness criminal-trial evidence-admission ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-error prosecutor structural-error testimony trial-counsel witness-testimony | During the criminal trial, the prosecutor orchestrated a stunt to have a child witness write down the most critical portion of her testimony while on … |
| 20-921 | Braulio Marcelo Castillo v. Virginia | Virginia | 2021-01-08 | Denied | Response Waived | child-witness closed-circuit-testimony confrontation-clause crawford-precedent crawford-v-washington criminal-trial due-process maryland-v-craig sixth-amendment | 1. Does the Confrontation Clause allow a non-victim child witness to testify against his father via two-way closed-circuit television when the witness… |
| 19-7150 | Michael J. Walton v. Jack Kowalski, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2020-01-02 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appellate-procedure appellate-review child-witness criminal-conviction direct-appeal due-process false-testimony ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-appellate-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct witness-coaching | 1. WHETHER COUNSEL WAS INEFFECTIVE FOR FAILING TO REVEAL INDISPUTABLY FALSE TESTIMONY, ANDI COACHING TO THE 9 YR. OLD CHILD WHO SAYS THE SAME FALSE TE… |