| 25-5345 |
Arturo Navarro-Zuniga v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confession-admissibility criminal-procedure law-review miranda-warning objective-effectiveness subjective-intent |
When determining whether a confession made following a midstream Miranda warning is admissible, do courts consider the warning's objective effectivene… |
| 25-5151 |
J. Ines Ruiz-Rivera v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-07-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confession-admissibility criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error ninth-circuit supreme-court-precedent |
Whether courts should follow the direction of Fulminante and use 'extreme caution' before finding the admission of a confession is harmless error |
| 24-6886 |
Jonathan Lynn Jenkins v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-03-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review confession-admissibility criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence harmless-error jury-role |
Whether an appellate court improperly displaces the jury's role to determine guilt by assuming error occurred when the district court improperly admit… |
| 24-6118 |
Ezekiel Isiah Delgado v. Neil McDowell, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-12-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
confession-admissibility criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process miranda-rights supreme-court-precedent |
Did the Court of Appeal unreasonably apply Supreme Court Miranda precedents by admitting Delgado's second confession without curative measures after d… |
| 23-1250 |
Carlos Vega v. Terence B. Tekoh |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-05-29 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
administration-of-justice circuit-split coerced-confessions confession-admissibility criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony fifth-amendment miranda-rights miranda-warning ninth-circuit |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred by establishing a categorical rule requiring the admission of expert testimony on the allegedly coercive circumstances… |
| 22-5935 |
Devon Miller v. Superintendent, Shawangunk Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
2022-10-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
confession-admissibility custodial-interrogation fifth-amendment miranda-v-arizona miranda-warnings police-interrogation police-interrogation-tactics self-incrimination two-step-interrogation voluntariness |
Whether the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination applies during custodial interrogation |
| 21-7964 |
Estevan Saucedo v. California |
California |
2022-05-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
coerced-confession confession-admissibility constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule law-enforcement-conduct miranda-rights police-misconduct police-tactics |
Was Appellant's Confession Admissible Since He Was Coerced by Illegal Police Tactics? |
| 21-6996 |
Robert Stivers v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2022-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights coerced-confession confession-admissibility constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process interrogation-procedure police-interrogation right-to-silence |
Whether the police violated a suspect's constitutional rights under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments when they ignored clear and unambiguous invoca… |
| 21-5795 |
Ethan Guillen v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-09-27 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
circuit-split confession-admissibility constitutional-rights criminal-procedure interrogation-procedure law-enforcement-procedure miranda-warnings officer-intent question-first-interrogation seibert-v-missouri |
In determining the admissibility of post-warning confessions given during question-first interrogations, should courts apply the Seibert plurality's o… |
| 20-5501 |
Andrew Darvin Hersh v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-08-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
ativan-influence confession-admissibility credibility-determination credibility-determinations due-process federal-court-review ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-confession non-custodial-confession state-court-findings state-court-review |
Does a 'non-custodial' confession uttered under the influence of the prescription drug, 'Ativan,' render a confession involuntary and inadmissible? |
| 19-5244 |
Larry David Davis v. Brian Daniel, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-07-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights confession-admissibility constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection evidence-tampering habeas-corpus sentencing standing trial-fairness |
Whether the petitioner's conviction and sentence violate the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment |