cooperating-witness
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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 | Due Process requires a criminal conviction be obtained by proof beyond a reasonable doubt. Cooperating witness testimony is admissible evidence, thoug… |
| 24-5534 | Anthony Wayne Hawkins v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-09-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause cooperating-witness due-process law-enforcement-database pretextual-stop witness-bias | (1) Whether and to what extent the Confrontation Clause of the 6th Amendment should contain the right to address the amount of a benefit that a co-ope… |
| 22-6085 | Curtis Neville v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-11-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-materiality brady-v-maryland cooperating-witness credibility criminal-evidence due-process due-process-violation kyles-v-whitley material-evidence prosecutorial-disclosure witness-credibility | In a prosecution built almost entirely on the credibility of cooperating Government witnesses, is an incentivized cooperating witness's letter address… |
| 22-6046 | Terrioues Owney v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-11-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland constitutional-rights cooperating-witness due-process late-disclosure materiality materiality-standard new-trial witness-credibility | Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit deny Owney's right to constitutional due process by applying an erroneous standard in ass… |
| 22-5827 | Jasmine Perry and Evans Lewis v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-10-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-materiality brady-v-maryland cooperating-witness due-process federal-courts fifth-circuit kyles-v-whitley materiality rico-indictment suppressed-evidence | 1) Can the constitutional right to due process be protected when federal courts regularly apply inconsistent and erroneous standards to determining th… |
| 21-5666 | William Marcellus Campbell v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-09-15 | Denied | IFP | 6th-amendment abuse-of-discretion appellate-review confrontation-clause cooperating-witness criminal-procedure de-novo-review sentencing | 1. There is a split in the federal courts of appeals and several state courts regarding the following question: Whether a Defendant's 6th Amendment Co… |
| 20-7729 | Casey Rose v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-04-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | competency-hearing confrontation-clause cooperating-witness cross-examination due-process impeachment indiana-v-edwards self-representation witness-impeachment | Whether the termination of cross-examination of a cooperating with incentives to lie prior to being able to impeach the witness violated the confronta… |
| 18-9261 | Calmer Cottier v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-05-15 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (7)IFP | constitutional-rights cooperating-witness due-process fair-trial impartial-jury jury-deliberation prosecutor-stipulation prosecutorial-misconduct stipulation truthfulness witness-credibility witness-testimony | Does the use of a prosecutor's stipulation that a cooperating witness is testifying truthfully violate the constitutional guarantees of a fair trial, … |
| 18-7267 | Mashawn Greene v. Scott Semple, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction | Connecticut | 2019-01-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof constitutional-law constitutional-rights cooperating-witness criminal-trial criminal-trials due-process false-testimony government-witnesses prosecutor-duty prosecutorial-misconduct | Whether the due process clause requires prosecutors to bear the burden of preventing and correcting false or misleading testimony by cooperating gover… |
| 18-237 | Gary Thomas and Felix Parrilla v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-08-23 | Denied | Response Waived | 6th-amendment civil-procedure conspiracy-venue constitutional constitutional-venue cooperating-witness criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure government-witness manufactured-venue prosecutorial-discretion sixth-amendment venue venue-determination venue-manipulation venue-provisions witness-cooperation | Whether it is permissible under the venue provisions of the U.S. Constitution Article III, § 2, cl. 3; the Sixth Amendment; and Federal Rules of Crimi… |