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…