confrontation-right

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6364 Joshua Luckey v. Louisiana Louisiana 2025-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-right due-process false-allegations fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment trial-evidence Did the trial court violate Luckey's Sixth Amendment right to confrontation and his XIV Amendment right to due process when evidence showing prior fal…
23-6447 Samuel Sherman v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause confrontation-right criminal-joinder criminal-procedure prejudice prejudicial-error rule-14 rule-14-procedure sixth-amendment zafiro-precedent zafiro-v-united-states Whether the lower courts misapplied this Court's holding in Zafiro v. United States
23-5454 Moses Crowe v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-08-25 Denied IFP confrontation-clause confrontation-right criminal-procedure cross-examination drug-abuse due-process intoxication jury-unanimity methamphetamine witness-credibility Whether Petitioner's constitutional right to confrontation was violated
22-1203 Alan Patrick Fowler v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-06-13 Denied confrontation-clause confrontation-right constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mens-rea mental-health sentencing specific-intent Whether there is insufficient evidence of specific intent to commit murder
22-6293 Dkyle Jamal Bridges v. United States Third Circuit 2022-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment automobile-exception confrontation-clause confrontation-right fourth-amendment franks-hearing plain-view sentencing-factors sex-trafficking testimonial-hearsay Did the automobile exception to the Fourth Amendment justify the warrantless search of Petitioner's vehicle?
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 …
21-8128 Duane Williams v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause confrontation-right criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-standard mandatory-conditions revocation-hearing standard-conditions supervised-release witness-testimony Whether the district court erred by revoking Mr. Williams' supervised-release-status-and-returning-him-to-prison
21-7869 Timothy Thibodeaux v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause confrontation-right constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourteenth-amendment pro-se-petition sixth-amendment whether-mr-thibodeaux's-conviction-was-obtained-in-violation-of-the-sixth-and-fourteenth-amendments
21-7242 Michael Wayne Kelly v. Texas Texas 2022-03-01 Denied IFP appellate-review confrontation-clause confrontation-right criminal-defense evidence evidence-exclusion right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment trial-court-error witness-testimony Did the Court of Appeals err in excluding evidence that deprived Petitioner of his Sixth Amendment right
21-993 Willard Anthony v. Louisiana Louisiana 2022-01-12 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (10) confrontation-clause confrontation-right due-process fair-trial harmless-error presumption-of-innocence prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-testimony structural-error witness-credibility Whether the presumption of innocence, the right to confrontation, and the right to a fair trial permit a court to allow the grand jury prosecutor to t…
21-618 Armand Jones v. Mississippi Mississippi 2021-10-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) codefendant-conduct codefendant-liability confrontation-clause confrontation-right criminal-procedure forfeiture-by-wrongdoing sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence witness-unavailability Whether a defendant forfeits his Sixth Amendment right to confront a witness against him when the defendant did not engage in conduct designed to prev…
20-5439 Jesse Santibanez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP ABUSE-OF-DISCRETION CONFRONTATION-CLAUSE confrontation-right CRIMINAL-PROCEDURE CROSS-EXAMINATION district-court-discretion SIXTH-AMENDMENT WITNESS-CREDIBILITY witness-testimony Did the District Court violate Santibanez's Sixth Amendment right to confront witness Evangeline Perez Vela against him?
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…
19-8819 Hector Rivera v. United States Second Circuit 2020-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP alternative-evidence confrontation-right cross-examination district-court-discretion evidentiary-limitation federal-rules-of-evidence rule-403 sixth-amendment Whether a district court's discretion to limit the Sixth Amendment right to confront witnesses is as broad as the general discretion to limit evidence…
19-8577 Shane Roscoe v. Connie Horton, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-06-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation confrontation-right confrontation-rights due-process forfeiture-by-wrongdoing hearsay hearsay-statements ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment witness-credibility Whether the Fourteenth Amendment guarantee of due process is violated when the prosecution withholds impeaching evidence
19-7713 Ronelle Lamar Oudems v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-02-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof circuit-split confrontation-clause confrontation-right criminal-procedure due-process presentence-report sentencing Whether the burden of proof for factual findings in a Presentence Report should be on the government or the defendant
19-7603 Mark D. Jensen v. William Pollard Seventh Circuit 2020-02-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP confrontation-clause confrontation-right constitutional-error constitutional-violation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus judicial-remedy retrial trial-rights Whether the State may refuse to retry a successful habeas petitioner who has established a constitutional trial error by simply initiating proceedings…
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…
19-5310 Rodolfo Cantu, Jr., aka Lil Rudy v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-right crawford-v-washington due-process fifth-amendment hearsay sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-proceedings sixth-amendment Was the enhancement for a credible threat improper considering the district court's partial reliance on hearsay facts outside the record, which violat…
19-5006 Peter J. Rosato v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights confrontation-clause confrontation-right constitutional-waiver criminal-procedure deposition deposition-testimony depositions due-process knowingly-intelligent-waiver right-to-be-present video-deposition waiver Does a waiver of a citizen's constitutional right have to appear on the record either written or orally in order to establish a knowing, intelligent, …
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…
18-5349 Tyron Young v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause confrontation-right cross-examination due-process government-informant hearsay out-of-court-allegations reliability sentencing sentencing-hearing sixth-amendment unsworn-testimony Whether the Sixth Amendment right to confront and cross-examine adverse witnesses applies at a sentencing hearing where the court bases the sentence o…