| 25-6753 |
Michael Sharpe v. Connecticut |
Connecticut |
2026-02-06 |
Pending |
IFP |
biological-material dna-analysis fourth-amendment identification-profiling probable-cause warrantless-search |
Whether the Fourth Amendment allows the government, without a warrant or probable cause, to (1) extract and (2) analyze DNA from biological material i… |
| 23-5127 |
Edward R. Brown v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2023-07-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-analysis dna-evidence due-process habeas-corpus laboratory-evidence sentencing trial-procedure |
Did the sentencing court err in using false and misleading DNA laboratory analysis in the petitioner's trial proceeding, which violated the petitioner… |
| 20-6799 |
Kosoul Chanthakoummane v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-01-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
bitemark-identification criminal-procedure dna-analysis dna-evidence due-process expert-testimony eyewitness-identification eyewitness-testimony forensic-evidence scientific-evidence trial-fairness |
Is Petitioner's conviction the product of a fundamentally unfair trial that was prejudiced by the admissibility of flawed forensic scientific evidence… |
| 20-892 |
Ariosa Diagnostics, Inc., et al. v. Illumina, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-01-05 |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
and analyzing the separated DNA for diagnostic pu using well-known laboratory techniques is unpaten 35-usc-101 abstract-ideas diagnostic diagnostic-method dna dna-analysis dna-fragments laboratory-techniques myriad-decision myriad-doctrine natural-phenomena patent patent-eligibility section-101 |
Whether a patent that claims nothing more than a method for separating smaller DNA fragments from larger ones, and analyzing the separated DNA for dia… |
| 20-5870 |
Demarcus Clark v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-analysis due-process evidence expert-testimony sixth-amendment |
Did the State's admission of the ill-court testimony and OWA report of a Surrogate DWA analyst in lieu of the actual testing DWA analyst and DWA repor… |
| 18-7786 |
Roy Shotwell v. Kevin Genovese, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure critical-stage dna-analysis dna-evidence dna-testing due-process effective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-due-process prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment standing warrantless-seizure |
Whether the Tennessee courts abused their discretion in denying Petitioner's DNA and post-conviction relief |