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 misapplie d this Court's holding in Zafiro v. Unit ed States, 506 U.S. 534, 113 S.Ct. 933 (1993), and the require ments of Ru… |
| 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 | 1. Whether Petitioner's constitutional right to confrontation was violated when, during his criminal jury trial, the district court restricted cross e… |
| 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 | 1) Could reasonable jurists disagree on whether there is insufficient evidence of specific intent to commit murder where Fowler never shot at a person… | |
| 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 | 1. Did the automobile exception to the Fourth Amendment justify the warrantless search of Petitioner's vehicle, which had in plain view only innocuous… |
| 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… |
| 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. This overall issue consists of the … |
| 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 | 1: Reasonable Jurists would determined that Mr. Thibodeaux's conviction was obtained in violation of the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United… |
| 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 ths Court of Appeals err when it held that the trial court didnot commit error in excluding evidence that deprived Petitioner of his Sixth Amendme… |
| 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 | Question not identified. |
| 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 | Whethe r a district court 's discretion to limit the Sixth Amendment right to confront witnesses is as broad as the general discr etion to limit evid … |
| 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 | I. Petitioner Shane Roscce's conviction rested upon and. was upheld by the State Appellate and Federal Habeas Courts based on the testimonial hearsay… |
| 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 (as the D.C., Second, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Circuits hold, see United States U. Price, 409 F.3d 436, 444 (D.C. Cir. 2005; United … |
| 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 | The federal courts found that his wife's voice-from-the-grave letter violated Jensen's confrontation right and granted his habeas petition, ordering t… |
| 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 CITIZENS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT HAVE TO APPEAR ON THE RECORD EITHER WRITTEN OR ORALLY IN ORDER TO ESTABLISH A KNOWNING, 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 | I. Whether the Sixth Amendment right to confront and cross-examine adverse witnesses applies at a sentencing hearing where the court bases the sentenc… |