destruction-of-evidence

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
20-7423 Jose Jesus Cruz v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment destruction-of-evidence evidence-destruction exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure Is it reasonable for law enforcement to enter a suspect's home under the exigent-circumstances exception when there is no genuine exigency?
20-1208 Salma Agha-Khan v. Pacific Community Mortgage, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-02 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts civil-procedure court-records destruction-of-evidence due-process judicial-misconduct Whether the Ninth Circuit's deliberate destruction of Petitioner's filings violated Petitioner's due process rights
19-8806 David Lawrence Dixon v. Donnie Ames, Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex West Virginia 2020-06-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP biological-evidence destruction-of-evidence due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment re-testing state-destruction trial Was Appellant denied his Fourteenth Amendment right to due process when the biological evidence used in his trial was destroyed before Appellant could…
19-8021 Henry L. Jackson v. Utah, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP destruction-of-evidence due-process equal-protection evidence evidence-destruction fair-trial fourteenth-amendment jury-selection peremptory-challenge vehicle Whether the state violated petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment right to due process and a fair trial when it released petitioner's vehicle to the lienho…
18-1589 James Doyle Collins, Jr. v. Texas Texas 2019-06-27 Denied contraband contraband-possession criminal-intent criminal-law criminal-possession criminal-procedure destruction-of-evidence due-process evidence evidence-destruction intent intentional-possession mens-rea possession possession-law statutory-interpretation Whether the act of deleting or destroying contraband evidences a lack of knowing or intentional possession
18-7024 Jacques Villafana v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2018-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge destruction-of-evidence due-process evidence evidence-destruction notice notice-requirement post-trial post-trial-procedure statutory-interpretation Whether the Virginia statutes, when applied in Petitioner's case, that allow for the destruction of evidence — post-trial — without notice are unconst…