evidence-interpretation
6 cases — ← All topics
| 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… |