complete-defense
19 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6352 | Marcus Allen Cooper v. Virginia | Virginia | 2025-12-12 | Pending | IFP | complete-defense credibility-challenge evidence-exclusion fourteenth-amendment trial-court-discretion witness-fabrication | Whether a trial court abridges the defendant's Fourteenth Amendment right to present a complete defense by excluding evidence that the sole inculpator… |
| 25A396 | Robert Tatum v. Chris Stevens | Seventh Circuit | 2025-10-06 | Application | alibi-defense complete-defense due-process right-to-counsel self-representation sixth-amendment | Whether a criminal defendant's constitutional right to present a complete defense is violated when a state court denies the opportunity to present an … | |
| 24-7450 | Zachery James Edward Rowe v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-06-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | buyer-seller-rule complete-defense criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy jury-instruction sixth-amendment | Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision affirming the refusal to give a buyer-seller instruction in a drug conspiracy case conflicts with this Court's ho… |
| 24-7305 | Francis F. Joseph v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-05-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | complete-defense corporate-practice-of-medicine financial-transactions medical-regulation sixth-amendment state-compliance | Whether a criminal defendant's Sixth Amendment right to present a complete defense is violated when a federal court excludes evidence that a physician… |
| 23-937 | Joshua James Duggar v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-02-28 | Denied | alternative-perpetrator complete-defense constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-exclusion trial-court trial-court-discretion | Does the exclusion of relevant evidence of an alternative perpetrator based on a trial court's conclusion it is too speculative violate a criminal def… | |
| 23-6616 | Fan Yang v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-01-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | complete-defense criminal-defendant criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-exclusion federal-rules-of-evidence jury-trial right-to-present-defense rule-403 | Whether a court may exclude evidence under Fed. R. Evid. 403, where doing so would preclude a criminal defendant from presenting a complete defense to… |
| 23A554 | Joshua James Duggar v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-12-15 | Presumed Complete | complete-defense constitutional-right criminal-defendant due-process eighth-circuit federal-criminal | Whether a criminal defendant's constitutional right to present a complete defense was improperly restricted during trial proceedings | |
| 23-6156 | David Joseph Meister v. Tyrell Davis, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2023-12-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability complete-defense constitutional-rights false-confession habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-present-defense substantial-showing-of-denial | Whether the Court of Appeals egregiously misapplied this Court's standard for issuing a certificate of appealability in the face of a substantial show… |
| 22-6563 | Jaquain Young v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-01-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | complete-defense confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-discretion right-to-present-defense severance witness-recantation | Whether the district court erred in excluding witness Tierra Lewis's out-of-court identification of codefendant Esau Ferdinand under FRE 403, thereby … |
| 22-5362 | Agustin Garcia v. New Jersey | New Jersey | 2022-08-16 | Denied | IFP | 6th-amendment complete-defense constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice post-conviction-relief right-to-counsel sixth-amendment technological-advances | Whether the petitioner was deprived of the right to a fair trial and present a complete defense |
| 21-7684 | Ernest DeWayne Jones v. Ronald Broomfield, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2022-04-22 | Denied | IFP | complete-defense constitutional-analysis constitutional-restriction criminal-defendant-rights criminal-defense due-process expert-testimony right-to-testify rock-v-arkansas | Whether a criminal defendant's right to testify is violated when prevented from testifying to facts within his personal knowledge without expert testi… |
| 21-550 | Tyrone Christopher Thompson v. Alabama | Alabama | 2021-10-14 | Denied | Response Waived | 14th-amendment affirmative-defense complete-defense due-process expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment meaningful-opportunity-to-present-defense mental-disease mental-disease-or-defect pre-trial-hearing | Does precluding a defendant from presenting any evidence of an affirmative defense of mental disease or defect to a jury based solely on conflicting e… |
| 21-5911 | Michael Herman v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-10-07 | Denied | IFP | complete-defense compulsory-process due-process evidence-standard evidentiary-standards mens-rea right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment | Can a defendant's right to present a complete defense be violated by the arbitrary and disproportionate application of a general evidentiary standard … |
| 20-5933 | Junior Griffin v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-10-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | complete-defense constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process hearsay hearsay-exclusion impeachment-evidence right-to-present-evidence supervisory-power wiretap-evidence wiretapping | Whether the defendant was denied his constitutional right to present a complete defense |
| 20-5462 | Smith Ellison, Jr. v. Robert Neuschmid, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2020-08-28 | Denied | IFP | certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure complete-defense constitutional-rights due-process evidence-preclusion motion-for-reconsideration remorse self-defense standing | Whether Petitioner is entitled to a certificate of appealability |
| 19-7457 | Rogelio Villarreal-Estebis v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-01-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | complete-defense criminal-conviction criminal-procedure drug-trafficking evidence-exclusion federal-rule-of-evidence-403 right-to-defense rule-403 sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-rights vehicle-ownership | Whether the Fifth Circuit's decision to affirm the trial court's refusal to admit the evidence was contrary to, or involved an unreasonable applicatio… |
| 19-5695 | Riodejuonerol Hudson v. Charles Bradley, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-08-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aedpa aedpa-deference appellate-counsel appellate-procedure complete-defense due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction sixth-amendment standard-of-review | Does the denial of an 'application' alone constitute a decision 'on the merits' that warrants AEDPA deference? |
| 18-9613 | Matthew L. Smeltzer v. Audrey King | Ninth Circuit | 2019-06-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-commitment complete-defense due-process erroneous-standard expert-testimony legal-standard section-2254 volitional-impairment | Whether the petitioner was denied his due process right to present a complete defense during his civil commitment trial when the trial court precluded… |
| 18-1408 | John Washek v. Vermont | Vermont | 2019-05-09 | Denied | Response Waived | complete-defense constitutional-rights criminal-behavior criminal-charge criminal-procedure due-process evidence-presentation fourth-amendment innocent-behavior probable-cause reasonable-suspicion right-to-defense terry-stop | Whether Defendant/Petitioner John Washek's Fourth Amendment rights were violated because the police officer's Terry stop was based on observations muc… |