corroboration-requirement

Case	Title	Lower Court	Docketed	Status	Flags	Tags	Question Presented
19-5818	Joshua Wayne Riley v. United States	Fourth Circuit	2019-09-04	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	civil-rights confession-reliability corroboration-requirement criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule fifth-amendment miranda-rights parole-revocation supervised-release	Hearings to revoke federal supervised release allow defendants to be sentenced to a new prison term based on findings of fact by only a preponderance …
18-1439	Shanker Patel v. California	California	2019-05-16	Denied	Response Waived	accomplice-testimony cautionary-instruction circumstantial-evidence corroboration corroboration-requirement criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions jury-trial sixth-amendment trial-rights	Where in sixteen States, including California, whence this present case arises, the law requires corroboration of an accomplice's testimony to sustain…
18-5242	Kenneth Martin, Jr. v. United States	Fifth Circuit	2018-07-16	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	burden-of-proof co-conspirator co-conspirator-testimony corroboration corroboration-requirement criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-standard fifth-circuit-law plea-bargain sentencing testimony witness-credibility	Whether the Fifth Circuit's law that allows a conviction based solely on the uncorroborated testimony of a co-conspirator should be abandoned, or at l…