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24-59 Stephen Lynch Murray v. Phil Archer, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-18 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights color-of-law confrontation due-process fourth-amendment free-speech political-speech speech-retaliation standing witness-confrontation When there is speech infringement with arrest, must there be a venue for confrontation and evidence the state did not provide as due, before a federal…
24-5079 John W. Patton v. Louisiana Louisiana 2024-07-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence confrontation constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial grand-jury impartial-judge judicial-interference perjury pro-se-defendant sixth-amendment stand-by-counsel transcript Due-process
23-7803 Michael Sean Graham v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation confrontation-clause covid-19-restrictions due-process fifth-amendment public-interest sars-cov-2 sixth-amendment trial-procedure Did the Ninth Circuit err in holding that masking trial witnesses did not violate the defendant's due process and confrontation rights?
23-1256 Donna Davis Javitz v. Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2024-05-30 Denied civil-rights confrontation confrontation-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel first-amendment-retaliation free-speech judicial-misconduct mistrial trial-fairness Whether the Petitioner was denied the constitutional right to a fair trial in a First Amendment retaliation case
23-6623 Johnl Jackson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP compulsory-process confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-evidence notice-requirement sex-trafficking Whether the criminal defendant's constitutional trial rights require the admission of the complainant's other prostitution activities to rebut the gov…
23-6238 William Jarvis v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-12 Denied IFP confrontation confrontation-clause due-process effective-counsel equal-protection fifth-amendment self-incrimination sixth-amendment third-party-guilt Whether the Fifth Amendment right to be free from the compulsion to make self-incriminating statements includes the right to not be required to provid…
23-6060 John Lacey Mulkey v. Georgia Georgia 2023-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence extrinsic-evidence right-to-present-defense rule-403 sixth-amendment speedy-trial Did the Court of Appeals violate the due process right to present a defense, in holding admissible, under O.C.G.A. § 24-4-403, (Rule403) extrinsic evi…
23-464 Matthew Boermeester v. Ainsley Carry, et al. California 2023-11-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) confrontation cross-examination due-process educational-discipline fair-process student-rights title-ix witness-credibility Whether when an educational institution that is a recipient of Federal funds seeks to impose a lengthy suspension or expulsion on a student for allege…
23-5443 Scott Huss v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2023-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-violation due-process equal-application equal-protection habeas-corpus Is it a federal due process, confrontation, and equal application violation as guaranteed by the 5th, 6th, and 14th Amendments (U.S. Const.) when a st…
22-6731 Lamon Demetrus Wright v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-02-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP confrontation confrontation-rights due-process evidence-admissibility federal-courts good-cause good-cause-standard hearsay hearsay-reliability reliability supervised-release What manner of hearsay should be considered 'reliable' when federal courts decide whether the government has established 'good cause' to deny confront…
22-6622 Marvin Eduardo Luna Gomez v. Nineteenth Judicial Circuit of Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-01-25 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights confrontation confrontation-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus prison-disciplinary-proceedings standing wolfe-v-mcdonnell Question not identified
22-6472 Vincent Paul Melendrez v. Jason Bennett, Superintendent, Stafford Creek Corrections Center Ninth Circuit 2023-01-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-defendant criminal-procedure defense due-process fifth-amendment self-incrimination sixth-amendment Where the Trial Court's Ruling Compelling the Election of Rights had required a criminal Defendant to waive his Fifth Amendment Constitutional Rights …
22-6438 Tommiel Q. Claiborne, aka Tommie Lee Claiborne, Jr., aka Tommie L. Claiborne v. Mississippi Mississippi 2023-01-03 Denied IFP confrontation constitutional-rights court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure criminal-proceeding due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-selection legal-assistance peremptory-challenges sixth-amendment Ineffective Assistance of Counsel for Failing to Exercise the Right to Challenge Jurors for Cause or Peremptory Challenge Purposes
22-6435 Willie Tyrone Shipley v. D. Holbrook Ninth Circuit 2022-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights confrontation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence fourteenth-amendment prosecutorial-discretion sixth-amendment witness-testimony Whether the defendant was deprived of his right to confrontation and due process under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments when the district attorney …
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 …
22-6155 Ryan McGuire v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-11-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation confrontation-clause criminal-trial cross-examination due-process fair-trial impeachment impeachment-evidence law-enforcement Does a trial court's ruling excluding evidence at trial violate a criminal defendant's right to due process, including the rights to confront and exam…
22-5692 Kyle Brandon Rocha v. West Virginia West Virginia 2022-09-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP beyond-a-reasonable-doubt confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process hearsay hearsay-evidence reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-hearing standard-of-proof Is it a violation of a defendant's rights to due process of law and confrontation for a Court to make a finding in a sentencing hearing based solely o…
22-5385 J. S. v. Texas Texas 2022-08-19 Denied IFP confrontation criminal-procedure due-process juvenile-justice kent-v-united-states sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment right to confrontation extends to a hearing on whether to certify a child as an adult
22-5369 Milton Lee Gardner v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-08-17 Denied IFP confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jury-charge juvenile-adjudication juvenile-justice sentencing-enhancement Question not identified
22-5131 Terry Gillard v. California California 2022-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment witness-impeachment Whether the California court's refusal to allow a witness to be impeached with his federal bank robbery conviction violated petitioner's clearly estab…
22-5117 Wade Robertson v. Committee on Grievances for the United States District Court for the District of Columbia District of Columbia 2022-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-proceedings confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-rights cross-examination due-process professional-license professional-licensing quasi-criminal witness-testimony Does the Federal Constitution secure to the holder of a professional license, such as an attorney, the right to confront and cross-examine adverse wit…
21-8054 Carlos Johnson v. Dan Reddington, Warden Missouri 2022-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-rights crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process evidence-law habeas-corpus hearsay probation-revocation Whether criminal defendants in probation revocation proceedings should be provided a more robust right to confrontation under the due process clause, …
21-7492 In Re Jonathan Manwell 2022-03-29 Denied IFP appellate-review confrontation constitutional-rights counsel-of-choice criminal-procedure discovery due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel forensic-evidence impartial-tribunal Does petitioner have a constitutional right to located and confirmed exculpatory forensic evidence, transcripts, and documents necessary for a meaning…
21-6930 Juan Rivera-George, aka Tio v. United States First Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation cross-examination-limitation fair-trial hearsay-admission impartial-jury impeachment-evidence jury-bias jury-impartiality sentencing sentencing-disparity sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right Whether Juan Rivera-George was deprived of his Sixth Amendment right to a fair trial by an impartial jury
21-6173 Rotimi Salu v. New York State Justice Center for the Protection of People With Special Needs New York 2021-11-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-adjudication administrative-law confrontation confrontation-rights credibility due-process employment-law hearsay hearsay-evidence witness-credibility Does it violate due process of law for a state agency to routinely adjudicate accusations of wrongdoing on hearsay evidence alone, denying the accused…
20-8381 Christian Diaz v. Scott Frauenheim, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-06-22 Denied IFP civil-rights confrontation counsel-obligations due-process evidence trial-procedure Whether the trial court erred in its handling of the evidence presented against the defendant
20-1147 Thomas Jefferson Smallwood v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-02-22 Denied certificate-of-appealability compulsory-process confrontation confrontation-clause fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment standard-of-review Should a certificate of appealability issue
20-7014 Michael A. Bruzzone v. Intel Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-02-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP antitrust antitrust-law civil-rights confrontation constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-procedure privileges racketeering Whether the district court and appellate court erred in denying the appellant's due process, confrontation, examination, privileges, and protections i…
20-6820 Eljarod Lawson v. California California 2021-01-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-immunity due-process sexual-assault sixth-amendment sixth-fourteenth-amendment testimonial-hearsay witness-unavailability Was the Sixth Amendment right of confrontation violated?
20-6244 Thomas M. Ha v. Christine Popoff, Superintendent, Oregon State Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2020-11-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation cross-examination due-process morrissey-precedent morrissey-v-brewer parole parolee-rights revocation-hearing witness-confrontation Whether the holding in Morrissey v. Brewer extends to revocation hearings
20-5784 Cedric Jeffries v. Ohio Ohio 2020-09-24 Denied IFP complaining-witness confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process evidence prior-sexual-assault rape-shield-law sexual-assault witness-testimony Does a State rape-shield law violate the Constitutional rights to confrontation and due process?
20-5345 Clarence Taylor v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law confrontation confrontation-right due-process government-burden hearsay revocation-proceeding testimonial-evidence witness-hearsay witness-testimony Whether due process requires the government to make an affirmative showing that a witness is afraid to testify before relying on testimonial hearsay a…
20-5331 Michael A. Bruzzone v. Intel Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure anti-SLAPP antitrust civil-rights confrontation confrontation-clause due-process equal-protection retaliation Whether District and Appellant Courts can deny a citizen's 14th Amendment guarantees of due process, confrontation, and equal protection in a 15 U.S.C…
19-8920 Deshawn Colbert v. Sherry L. Burt, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel new-trial pre-arrest-silence prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Whether the appellant's Sixth Amendment right to confrontation was violated due to ineffective assistance of counsel
19-8040 Jerry Meas v. Osvaldo Vidal, Superintendent, Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center, et al. First Circuit 2020-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability confrontation confrontation-clause credibility criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence habeas-corpus judicial-discretion sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-confrontation witness-credibility Whether it is permissible under a criminal defendant's Sixth Amendment right of confrontation for a trial judge to curtail materially relevant cross-e…
19-7927 Jay Allen Newcomb v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation confrontation-rights double-jeopardy due-process oral-pronouncement sentencing sentencing-conflict written-judgment Is the 11th Circuit's conclusion that any error the sentencing court made in orally pronouncing the sentence was corrected by the written sentencing o…
19-7450 George Maurice Steele v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation confrontation-clause confrontation-right criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment revocation-hearing sentencing supervised-release witness-testimony Whether the district court erred by allowing testimony at the revocation hearing that violated Mr. Steele's Fifth Amendment due process right to confr…
19-7442 Andrew Lee Williams v. Texas Texas 2020-01-27 Denied IFP confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-article-38.41 due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment indefiniteness sixth-amendment vagueness Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals' recent holdings regarding the construction and application of Texas Code of Criminal Procedure Article 38…
19-6924 William D. Thomas v. Mark McCullick, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-12-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP bail civil-procedure confrontation confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification identification indictment officer-activity police-conduct preliminary-hearing warrant-inquiry whether a state's failure to meet the reciprocal r Whether an identification resulting from a show-up confrontation during a preliminary hearing raised by prior police activity is sufficient to warrant…
19-6322 Kelvin Miles v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleyne alleyne-vs-united-states apprendi confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-destruction fair-trial hearsay sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-factors did-the-pre-trial-destruction-of-evidence-by-the-state-deny-the-petitioner-his-right-to-due-process-and-a-fair-trial
19-467 Chixapkaid Donald Michael Pavel v. University of Oregon, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-10-09 Denied Response Waived confrontation cross-examination due-process employment-rights public-university sexual-harassment tenure termination union Do due-process rights include confronting and cross-examining accuser?
19-5819 Arthur Rathburn v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence-standard evidentiary-issues fair-notice jury-instructions reasonable-doubt right-to-jury-trial right-to-present-defense sufficiency-of-evidence vagueness Whether the government failed to present sufficient evidence to support the convictions beyond a reasonable doubt
19-5065 Chester Ray Crank v. Charmaine Bracy, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP alibi-defense confrontation confrontation-clause conviction criminal-procedure due-process illegal-recordings ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence intoxication police-misconduct prejudicial-evidence Is a petitioner provided due process of law when he is convicted on evidence insufficient to sustain a conviction when said evidence was wholly based …
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
18-8189 Martin Tovar v. Dushan Zatecky, Superintendent, Pendleton Correctional Facility Seventh Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-precedent habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction Whether the Indiana Southern District Court erred in ruling Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus was time barred and the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeal…
18-8111 Rossahn Black v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP bullcoming confrontation confrontation-clause evidence-admissibility expert-witness forensic-evidence forensic-testimony melendez-diaz melendez-diaz-precedent ninth-circuit-interpretation sixth-amendment testimony Whether this Court's decision in Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts and Bullcoming v. New Mexico created a bright line rule excluding the testimony of an …
18-7782 James E. Mason, Jr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-02-06 Denied IFP batson-challenge batson-challenges burden-of-proof confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process impeached-testimony ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel insufficient-evidence jury-instructions jury-selection race-neutral-challenges Whether the State obtained Mr. Mason's conviction with insufficient evidence
18-7146 Jonathan Samuel Sage v. Washington Washington 2018-12-21 Denied IFP confrontation confrontation-clause cross-examination double-jeopardy double-jeopardy-clause due-process evidence-restriction judicial-review jury-instructions multiple-convictions same-crime same-person-same-time separate-and-distinct-conduct uncharged-misconduct witness-credibility Should this Court grant review where Washington State's published Court of Appeals decision affirmed these multiple convictions despite ambiguous and …
18-6988 Donald Sanders v. Domingo Uribe, Jr., Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation confrontation-clause cross-examination due-process eyewitness eyewitness-testimony federal-proceedings fundamental-fairness ninth-circuit state-court state-court-proceedings Whether the Ninth Circuit clearly erred in its decision that the state court reasonably concluded that Petitioner's right to confrontation was not vio…
18-687 Auriel Devon Frett v. Territory of the Virgin Islands Virgin Islands 2018-11-26 Denied chambers-v-mississippi co-defendant-testimony confrontation confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination cumulative-error-doctrine due-process jury-instructions sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the instruction to not consider the specific length of sentence a testifying co-defendant faced absent cooperation violates a defendant's sixt…
18-265 Micah Patterson v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2018-08-31 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) adversarial confrontation constitutional-rights due-process expert-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigation sixth-amendment virginia-supreme-court Did the Virginia Supreme Court err by effectively affirming a lower court holding that denied relief for Patterson's ineffective assistance of counsel…
18-5601 Jose Ramirez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-08-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation confrontation-right due-process federal-sentencing fifth-amendment good-cause parole probation revocation sentencing-hearing witness-confrontation Does the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause confer at least a limited right to confront witnesses at federal sentencing hearings absent a showing, a…
18-5449 In Re Michael D. Smith 2018-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 appeals civil-procedure confrontation criminal-procedure district-court-review double-jeopardy due-process federal-habeas habeas-corpus indictment motion-to-vacate post-conviction-relief self-incrimination sentencing speedy-trial standing Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the district court and court of appeals denied his 28 U.S.C. § 2255 and § 2244 motio…