consciousness-of-guilt

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-6961 Stephen J. Pierre-Paul v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP co-defendant-testimony consciousness-of-guilt cooperating-witness probative-value reasonable-doubt sentencing-enhancement Is a conviction based solely on inconsistent and contradictory testimony from a cooperating co-defendant legally sufficient to sustain a criminal conv…
19-8627 Isaac Cardenas v. Texas Texas 2020-06-05 Denied IFP burden-of-proof circumstantial-evidence consciousness-of-guilt criminal-procedure due-process evidence inference inference-vs-speculation speculation Whether the state court violated the federal due process clause when it ventured into the realm of mere speculation when deciding an insufficiency of …
19-7227 Santos Reyes-Villatoro v. United States Third Circuit 2020-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP consciousness-of-guilt due-process evidence-tampering fair-trial false-evidence giglio-v-united-states judicial-review napue-v-illinois prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-a-fair-trial trial-fairness Whether a prosecutor's presentation of false or misleading evidence violates due process and requires vacating a conviction and remanding for a new tr…
19-5694 Craig Farley v. Ralph Diaz, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2019-08-23 Denied IFP consciousness-of-guilt constitutional-rights counsel-performance criminal-trial exculpatory-evidence identification-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lack-of-identification-evidence phone-records sixth-amendment strickland-standard trial-counsel Is there any reasonable argument that trial counsel satisfied the Strickland standard when he failed to introduce crucial lack of identification evide…