credibility-of-witnesses

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
22-7393 Allen W. Thompson v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2023-04-28 Denied IFP affidavit-requirement collateral-attack credibility-of-witnesses criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-standards habeas-corpus habeas-petition ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-litigation standard-of-review Circumstances-for-pro-se-habeas-petitions
22-6394 Van Raymond Brollini v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review conflicting-evidence credibility-of-witnesses evidence-preclusion harmless-error jury-trial sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-jury-trial tax-prosecution willfulness Whether the Ninth Circuit's harmless-error analysis is consistent with Supreme Court precedent
22-5547 Seneca Loyal Neal v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment body-camera-evidence constitutional-rights credibility-of-witnesses drug-conspiracy exclusionary-rule illegal-entry illegal-search-and-seizure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice section-2255-motion Whether the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit erred in affirming the District Court's denial of Mr. Neal's 28-USC-2255-claim
21-6897 Ramon Torres Ruelas v. Troy Bowser, Superintendent, Two Rivers Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2022-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-sex-case child-sex-crimes credibility-of-witnesses criminal-defense evidentiary-sufficiency ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lack-of-admissions lack-of-eyewitness-testimony lack-of-physical-evidence trial-strategy witness-credibility Whether trial counsel need not investigate witnesses with critical information relating to the putative victims' credibility in a child sex case where…
21-6163 Gerard M. Lynch v. New York State Justice Center for the Protection of People With Special Needs New York 2021-11-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-adjudication confrontation-clause confrontation-rights credibility-of-witnesses due-process hearsay-evidence occupational-debarment state-agency worker-rights Does the routine use of uncorroborated hearsay evidence to adjudicate accusations of wrongdoing against healthcare workers violate due process?
20-5171 Cedric Watkins v. Kenneth D. Hutchison, Warden, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-07-24 Denied IFP constitutional-rights credibility-of-witnesses due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence-sufficiency fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance jackson-v-virginia sixth-amendment witness-credibility Whether the lower courts properly applied Supreme Court precedent and enforced the U.S. Constitution
19-101 Imperium IP Holdings (Cayman), Ltd. v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., et al. Federal Circuit 2019-07-19 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived appellate-review burden-of-proof credibility-determinations credibility-of-witnesses expert-testimony jury-trial jury-trial-rights jury-verdict patent-infringement patent-invalidity patent-validity seventh-amendment standard-of-review Whether an appellate court may reverse a jury verdict based on its own view that expert testimony was credible, 'unrebutted,' and 'uncontradicted,' or…
19-5007 Jonathan Paul Sikes v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-07-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP actual-innocence credibility-of-witnesses criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia juvenile-offender reasonable-doubt sexual-offenses standard-of-proof sufficiency-of-evidence testimony witness-credibility Does the Northern District Court's decision conflict with the holding in Jackson v. Virginia as the Northern District Court misapplied the standard in…
18-1482 Semyya Lanise Cunningham v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-05-29 Denied circumstantial-guarantees circumstantial-guarantees-of-trustworthiness credibility credibility-of-witnesses district-court district-court-discretion evidence-law evidence-rule-807 federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay-exception hearsay-rule judicial-discretion residual-hearsay-exception rule-807 trustworthiness witness-credibility Whether a finding of 'circumstantial guarantees of trustworthiness' may be premised on a district court's belief in the truth of the hearsay statement…
18-8728 Joseph Christen Thoresen v. Minnesota Minnesota 2019-04-08 Denied IFP corroborating-testimony credibility credibility-of-witnesses criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-due-process-jury-instructions-d criminal-procedure-jury-instructions drug-addiction due-process forensic-evidence jury-instruction jury-instructions methamphetamine prejudicial-evidence prejudicial-information witness-credibility Whether the court below erroneously held, in conflict with the decisions of two circuits, that a special jury instruction was not warranted when consi…