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25-6560 Tony Daniel Klein v. United States Ninth Circuit 2026-01-13 Pending Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP confrontation-clause constitutional-defense criminal-procedure evidence-exclusion sixth-amendment witness-bias Does a court violate a criminal defendant's constitutional right to present a defense by excluding the strongest evidence supporting the sole theory o…
25-6510 Tilon Lashon Carter v. Texas Texas 2026-01-07 Pending IFP due-process evidence-exclusion fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus postconviction-relief state-appellate-court In a state postconviction habeas corpus proceeding in which the petitioner alleged that a material witness testified falsely at trial, does it violate…
25-6352 Marcus Allen Cooper v. Virginia Virginia 2025-12-12 Pending IFP complete-defense credibility-challenge evidence-exclusion fourteenth-amendment trial-court-discretion witness-fabrication Whether a trial court abridges the defendant's Fourteenth Amendment right to present a complete defense by excluding evidence that the sole inculpator…
25-529 Mike Brown, Warden v. Louis Chandler Sixth Circuit 2025-10-31 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived constitutional-violation due-process evidence-exclusion federal-review habeas-corpus state-court 1. Do th is Court's precedents prohibiting the application of arbitrary rules to exclude evidence "clearly establish," under § 2254(d)(1) , that a sta…
24-7142 Saad Hanna v. Kimberly A. Nelson, M.D., et al. Colorado 2025-05-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-violation evidence-exclusion ineffective-assistance judicial-error jury-instructions racial-threat Whether the trial court erroneously used prejudicial language suggesting defendant's guilt during jury instructions and whether defense counsel was in…
24-7066 Hazem Garada v. District of Columbia Board of Medicine District of Columbia 2025-04-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP agency-proceeding constitutional-rights court-of-appeal due-process evidence-exclusion legal-standard Were due process Constitutional rights violated by respondent's agency proceeding and did the DC Court of Appeal unconstitutionally exclude petitioner…
24-572 Reginald Pittman, By and Through His Guardian and Next Friend, Robin M. Hamilton, v. Madison County, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-11-22 Denied due-process evidence-exclusion fair-trial fourteenth-amendment jury-instruction pre-trial-detainee Did the Circuit Court improperly impair the plaintiff's due process right to a fair trial by sustaining the jury's verdict and failing to order a new …
24-5247 Eric Cruz v. Officer Domingo Cervantez Fifth Circuit 2024-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment brady-rule brady-rule-of-evidence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment evidence evidence-exclusion qualified-immunity safe-prison-act Did the U.S. District courts' failure to allow relevant evidence into trial proceedings violate the Brady Rule of Evidence under Brady v. Maryland, 37…
23-1219 Colton Matthews v. Louisiana Louisiana 2024-05-16 Denied chambers-precedent chambers-v-mississippi constitutional-rights due-process evidence-exclusion fair-trial gun-evidence right-to-present-defense self-defense Constitutional right to present a defense
23-937 Joshua James Duggar v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-02-28 Denied alternative-perpetrator complete-defense constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-exclusion trial-court trial-court-discretion Does the exclusion of relevant evidence of an alternative perpetrator based on a trial court's conclusion it is too speculative violate a criminal def…
23-6616 Fan Yang v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP complete-defense criminal-defendant criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-exclusion federal-rules-of-evidence jury-trial right-to-present-defense rule-403 Whether a court may exclude evidence under Fed. R. Evid. 403, where doing so would preclude a criminal defendant from presenting a complete defense to…
23-6475 Darrius Decnan Redd v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-01-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause credibility cross-examination due-process evidence-exclusion fair-trial prosecutorial-misconduct sex-trafficking Whether the district court violated the Defendant's Due Process and Confrontation rights by excluding video evidence
23-6450 Alfred Correa Dizon v. Vectrus Systems Corporation Fifth Circuit 2024-01-10 Denied Relisted (5)IFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process evidence evidence-exclusion fair-trial judicial-bias pro-se pro-se-litigant standing Whether the lower court and defense counsel violated federal rules of civil procedure, due process, and the appellant's constitutional rights
23A562 Tarun Surti v. Fleet Engineers, Inc. Federal Circuit 2023-12-18 Presumed Complete evidence-exclusion federal-circuit injunctive-relief mudflap-design patent-infringement patent-remedies Whether the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals correctly interpreted the scope of patent infringement claims and remedies for a mudflap design patent un…
23-5894 Myron Lee Brandon v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-10-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 5th-amendment 6th-amendment consent criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-exclusion fifth-amendment jury-instructions sixth-amendment transportation-of-minors Exclusion of evidence on prostitution and lying by alleged victim
23-176 Robert Cox, et al. v. Helena Chemical Company Texas 2023-08-25 Denied Response Waived due-process evidence evidence-exclusion expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment legal-standards property-rights state-court Whether the Due Process Clause prohibits a state court from depriving petitioners of property protected by the Fourteenth Amendment without allowing t…
22-7748 Mike Webb v. James Christian Kimmel, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-06-09 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure default-judgment discretionary-power evidence-exclusion federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-review motion-to-dismiss rico rico-statute Whether it is an abuse of discretion to exclude relevant evidence in a RICO case
22-7090 Frank Gallardo v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-exclusion expert-testimony fair-trial federal-rules-of-evidence speedy-trial Whether the district court abused its discretion in admitting Tonkel's testimony under FRE 807(b)
22-6733 In Re John B. Myles 2023-02-08 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review arrest-warrant due-process evidence evidence-exclusion ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment Whether the defendant was denied effective assistance of counsel
22-6519 Thomas Alan Arthur v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-defense defendant-rights due-process evidence-exclusion free-speech harmful-error harmless-error judicial-review miller-test obscenity obscenity-standard Should this Court adopt the Seventh Circuit's rule that where a district court erroneously excludes evidence that makes up the entirety of a defendant…
22-6365 Ronald E. Cook v. Tom Watson, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-12-21 Denied IFP appeals constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence-exclusion fair-trial jurisdiction right-to-present-defense When can a criminal indictment be changed without due process
22-6175 Nancy Abbie Tallent v. Phillip Knight, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-11-30 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence evidence-exclusion judicial-bias pro-se pro-se-litigation section-1983 supervisory-power supreme-court-intervention Where officers violated the Petitioner rights afforded by the Constitution of the United States, under 42 U.S. Code § 1983, after exhausting all known…
22-5471 Tremain Lamar Braxton, Timothy Roy Mason, and Darrell Lee-Lamont Summers, II v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause confrontation-rights criminal-sexual-conduct criminal-trial cross-examination evidence-exclusion incentive-to-testify sixth-amendment witness-credibility Whether a defendant's Sixth Amendment confrontation rights are violated when a trial court bars all cross-examination about events that concededly too…
21-7731 Alonzo Bell v. Illinois Illinois 2022-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence evidence-exclusion judicial-discretion proportionate-penalties sentencing Whether the Appellate Court abused its discretion in admitting social media evidence
21-7595 O. C. v. V. C. Ohio 2022-04-12 Denied Relisted (3)IFP 14th-amendment custody custody-order due-process equal-protection evidence evidence-exclusion judicial-procedure parental-rights Did the appellate court deny O.C. due process-and-equal-protection
21-7242 Michael Wayne Kelly v. Texas Texas 2022-03-01 Denied IFP appellate-review confrontation-clause confrontation-right criminal-defense evidence evidence-exclusion right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment trial-court-error witness-testimony Did the Court of Appeals err in excluding evidence that deprived Petitioner of his Sixth Amendment right
21-6998 Robert Lars Pape v. California California 2022-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-exclusion right-to-present-defense standard-of-review third-party-culpability Does the Constitution permit the exclusion of a defendant's presentation of substantial evidence of third-party culpability simply because the court b…
21-945 Wisconsin v. Manuel Garcia Wisconsin 2021-12-27 Denied confession criminal-confession criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence-exclusion fifth-amendment miranda-warning miranda-warnings misleading-jury witness-testimony Can a criminal defendant's cross-examination of a witness for the State, designed to mislead the jury, open the door to the introduction of the defend…
21-6136 Marcio Santos-Portillo v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence-exclusion federal-law-enforcement judicial-discretion procedural-remedy separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation statutory-violation Whether a federal court has the discretion to exclude evidence obtained by federal law enforcement agents in violation of a federal statute
21-5971 Adrian Torres v. Warren Montgomery, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-10-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-trial cumulative-error doyle-error due-process evidence-exclusion ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct ptsd right-to-present-defense Whether trial counsel rendered ineffective assistance by failing to investigate and present a PTSD expert; whether the prosecutor committed misconduct…
21-5371 James Roland Henderson v. California California 2021-08-13 Denied IFP criminal-intent criminal-procedure evidence-exclusion familial-violence first-degree-murder homicide imperfect-self-defense jury-instructions parental-relationship religious-beliefs self-defense special-circumstances Whether the trial court improperly instructed the jury with a pinpoint instruction on imperfect self-defense
21-5095 Melissa Elizabeth Lucio v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-07-13 Denied Amici (2)IFP arbitrary-exclusion civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-exclusion evidentiary-standards expert-testimony false-confession right-to-defense right-to-present-defense Whether the exclusion of defense evidence that could have cast doubt on the defendant's false confession violated the defendant's clearly established …
20-1766 In Re John H. Todd 2021-06-21 Denied Response Waived civil-rights confession constitutional-safeguards criminal-investigation due-process evidence evidence-exclusion police-conduct search-warrant Does Oregon's conflicting statutes on search warrants provide the same level of constitutional safeguards for suspects in a criminal investigation?
20-7843 Timothy Howard Johnson v. Renee Baker, Warden Nevada 2021-04-26 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence-exclusion retroactivity right-to-counsel right-to-defense right-to-jury-trial trial-court-discretion waiver witness-testimony Whether the state district court lost subject matter jurisdiction by rendering the judgment of conviction void when it failed to comply with the requi…
20-7700 Robert Ibarra v. W. L. Montgomery, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP co-defendant-statements co-perpetrator-statements confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process evidence-exclusion first-degree-murder hearsay right-to-defense right-to-present-defense Does the exclusion of statements by a co-perpetrator that he was solely responsible for the charged murder and the defendant was innocent violate the …
20-7644 Skip Hansen v. Kentucky Kentucky 2021-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-exclusion fourteenth-amendment right-to-defense right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment witness-testimony Did the Kentucky Court of Appeals allow Mr. Hansen's right to present a full and complete defense, which is protected by the Sixth and Fourteenth Amen…
20-7171 Luis Javier Correa-Figueroa, aka Barney, aka Gordo v. United States First Circuit 2021-02-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-intent criminal-procedure district-court-ruling evidence evidence-exclusion federal-property intent motion-for-acquittal procedural-error self-defense use-of-force Whether the district court committed a procedural error in excluding evidence
20-918 In Re Johnathon Kelly 2021-01-08 Denied Response Waived actual-innocence antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act constitutional-rights evidence-exclusion federal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review newly-discovered-evidence Whether the petitioner's actual innocence claim is unconstitutionally restricted by the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) and Fede…
20-6602 Wayne Boucher v. Deanne Lyons New Hampshire 2020-12-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP abuse child-custody domestic-dispute due-process equal-protection evidence-exclusion family-law guardian-ad-litem judicial-bias parental-rights What is best for E.B.
20-5536 Joseph Scott McKinney v. Louisiana Louisiana 2020-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause confrontation-rights criminal-defense due-process evidence evidence-exclusion rape-shield rape-shield-law sixth-amendment Whether Louisiana's Rape Shield law and the lower courts' rulings contravened the defendant's Sixth Amendment confrontation right and due process at t…
20-232 Robert Anderson v. Teri Kennedy Seventh Circuit 2020-08-27 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived constitutional-rights due-process evidence-exclusion expert-testimony eyewitness-identification holmes-precedent holmes-v-south-carolina state-rule Whether this Court's decision in Holmes v. South Carolina, 547 U.S. 319 (2006, clearly establishes that a defendant's due process right to present evi…
19-1472 Phillip Antonio Davis v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Tenth Circuit 2020-07-08 Denied character-evidence conspiracy conspiracy-theory criminal-defense criminal-procedure-evidence-admissibility due-process evidence-exclusion excessive-force jackson-v-virginia judicial-review relevance right-to-present-defense standard-of-review trial-procedure Whether the exclusion of evidence deemed necessary by Petitioner to present a complete defense and to combat the State's theory of guilt could be rati…
19-8379 Herbert Burgess v. Illinois Illinois 2020-04-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-exclusion fair-trial judicial-bias judicial-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct trial-bias witness-credibility Whether the trial court's repeated displays of bias, hostility, and animosity toward Herbert Burgess violated the standard for prejudice and bias
19-8200 Don Farley v. Carl Parson Tenth Circuit 2020-04-07 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence evidence-exclusion first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech witness-testimony Was Farley denied his First Amendment Right of Free Speech and Fourteenth Amendment of due process?
19-7956 Molly Tsai v. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs First Circuit 2020-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion circuit-court civil-rights comparator-evidence employment-discrimination evidence-exclusion evidentiary-standards judicial-discretion minority-rights probationary-period standard-of-review Did the First Circuit Judge err and abuse her discretion in excluding evidence concerning a minority employee terminated during her probationary perio…
19-7457 Rogelio Villarreal-Estebis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP complete-defense criminal-conviction criminal-procedure drug-trafficking evidence-exclusion federal-rule-of-evidence-403 right-to-defense rule-403 sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-rights vehicle-ownership Whether the Fifth Circuit's decision to affirm the trial court's refusal to admit the evidence was contrary to, or involved an unreasonable applicatio…
19-6509 William Gaudet v. United States First Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2423(a) appeals-court appellate-review conviction criminal-sentencing district-court evidence-exclusion evidence-rule-403 federal-rules-of-evidence federal-sentencing-guidelines judgment-of-acquittal motion-in-limine prior-testimony sentencing standard-of-review whether-the-appeals-court-erred-in-upholding-the-d Whether the appeals court erred in upholding the district court's denial of the petitioner's motion in limine
19-6323 Michael Taffaro v. New Jersey New Jersey 2019-10-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process evidence evidence-exclusion ineffective-assistance interests-of-justice judicial-review perjury perjury-claim post-conviction-relief procedural-default procedural-rules standing testimony witness-testimony Whether a decision affirming exclusion of evidence can be correct without addressing the unrefuted assertion that it was excluded on plainly erroneous…
19-6077 Ruben Moreno Herrera v. Ralph Diaz, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2019-09-26 Denied IFP civil-rights compulsory-process conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process evidence-exclusion evidentiary-exclusion fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the exclusion of all reliable and relevant material evidence, including the testimony of the defendant's first-hand witness, violated the defe…
18-9822 Bryan K. Noel v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP but no text was provided for analysis. Without th I cannot generate a meaningful question presented actual-innocence brady-violation due-process evidence-exclusion habeas-corpus penumbra wrongful-conviction wrongly-excluded-evidence Does the Privilege of Writ of Habeas Corpus entail a penumbra of the Due Process of Law protections when credible and reliable evidence is wrongly exc…
18-8403 Sergio Caballero v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-exclusion fifth-amendment habeas-corpus third-party-culpability Whether the district court violated Petitioner's Fifth Amendment rights by failing to allow evidence of third-party culpability
18-8058 Joel Elias Sanchez v. Jeffrey A. Beard, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 9th-circuit aedpa constitutional-rights crane-v-kentucky criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process evidence-exclusion evidentiary-exclusion ninth-circuit-review right-to-present-defense self-defense Did excluding this evidence violate Sanchez's clearly established right under Crane?
18-6616 Maria I. Sanutti-Spencer v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2018-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-motive criminal-procedure decedent's-drug-addiction decedent's-drug-dealing decedent's-motive decedent's-physical-abuse defendant's-health-issues due-process evidence evidence-exclusion lay-opinion-testimony right-to-complete-defense right-to-present-defense trial-procedure witness-testimony Does excluding evidence of another's motive, of the decedent's drug addiction, drug dealing, his physical abuse of the defendant and the defendant's s…
18-6558 Anthony James Merrick v. Arizona Arizona 2018-11-02 Denied IFP appellate-counsel attorney-client-privilege constitutional-rights due-process effective-counsel evidence-exclusion false-testimony ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-testify trial-procedure Did the Arizona State Courts err in finding Mr. Merrick was not entitled under the constitution to testify at trial even though he attempted to make a…
18-6273 Antoine Davis v. United States Third Circuit 2018-10-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process evidence evidence-exclusion fair-trial fifth-amendment government-witness ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error sixth-amendment Whether the Lower Court Misapprehended its Abuse of discretion when the lower court excluded evidence of the Government witness, which evidence was pu…