evidence-interpretation

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6092 Olegario Lares-De La Rosa v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence-interpretation federal-rules-of-evidence law-enforcement-testimony lay-opinion Whether Federal Rule of Evidence 701 permits a law enforcement officer to provide a lay opinion about the meaning of ordinary language used in a recor…
24-6988 Ricardo Edwin Lanier v. Justin Burns, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-04-14 Denied IFP court-procedure due-process evidence-interpretation factual-dispute summary-judgment witness-affidavit Whether the district and appellate courts erroneously discredited the petitioner's account by improperly relying on a notarized affidavit and overlook…
23-1360 Vernon Fiehler v. Catherine Mecklenburg, et al. Alaska 2024-07-01 Denied CVSGAmici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) civil-procedure constitutional-provision evidence evidence-interpretation federal-survey geographic-determination judicial-discretion jurisdiction property-law water-boundary Whether a court has the power to disregard evidence of the location of a water boundary from a federal survey based on subsequent evidence of the body…
23-7049 Daniel Arsenio Rodgers v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-03-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP crime-lab criminal-procedure enhancement evidence-interpretation firearms naked-eye sentencing-guidelines serial-number visible Whether the district court erred in applying a four-level enhancement under the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines for 'altered or obliterated' serial number,…
20-5258 Nikole Marie Hunter v. Government Employees Insurance Company Fourth Circuit 2020-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP anderson-v-liberty-lobby civil-procedure evidence evidence-interpretation expert-witness judicial-function procedural-rules standard-of-review summary-judgment supreme-court-precedent tolan-v-cotton Whether the District Court failed to review evidence and ignored expert witness testimony in conflict with Supreme Court precedent on summary judgment…
18-5480 Bjorn Christian Luster v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-08-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP burglary burglary-enhancement criminal-conviction criminal-history due-process evidence-interpretation fifth-amendment-due-process juvenile-offenses points-scoring prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment-effective-assistance-of-counsel ussg-2k2.1(b)(3) ussg-4a1.1 victim-testimony Whether the court erred in applying a sentencing enhancement for a prior crime of violence conviction when the prior conviction was for Iowa third-deg…