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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6132 | Wesley Mark Sudbury v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-11-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof congressional-intent evidence-law fundamental-rights legal-procedure statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether a mandatory statute enacted by Congress to protect an important fundamental right titled Prohibition of use as evidence of intercepted wir… |
| 25-5156 | Marlin L. Royal v. Fidencio N. Guzman, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2025-07-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process evidence-law federal-procedure hearsay | Whether, on de novo review, the erroneous admission of hearsay accusatory statements that the prosecution's chief witness made to the police prejudici… |
| 24-1268 | Rodney Reed v. Bryan Goertz, in His Official Capacity as District Attorney of Bastrop County, Texas | Fifth Circuit | 2025-06-12 | Pending | Amici (1)Relisted (12) | criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process evidence-law innocence-claim postconviction-relief | Whether Article 64, as authoritatively construed by the CCA, violates due process by arbitrarily denying prisoners access to postconviction DNA testin… |
| 24-7179 | Jordash Tanksley v. Deshawn Jones, Warden | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-05-12 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-law witness-testimony | Question not identified. |
| 24-7135 | Mario Keeream Jackson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-05-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cellular-data criminal-procedure evidence-law fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure | Whether the district court improperly denied a motion to suppress cellular phone data and records obtained through an allegedly unlawful search |
| 24-6626 | Stanford Wall v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-02-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-law criminal-procedure cross-examination evidence-law witness-credibility | Whether, consistent with the Confrontation Clause, courts must apply a presumption favoring cross-examination of a government witness's general charac… |
| 24-721 | Jordan Shaun Rodgers v. Texas | Texas | 2025-01-10 | Denied | absurdity-doctrine criminal-procedure due-process evidence-law jackson-v-virginia statutory-interpretation | Whether Texas courts are applying the 'absurdity doctrine' in a manner that violates due process and whether Jackson v. Virginia allows jurors to rely… | |
| 24-5514 | Christopher Jensen v. Illinois | Illinois | 2024-09-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure evidence-law jury-instructions sentencing trial-court | Question not identified. |
| 23-7023 | Johnny Mack Sketo Calhoun v. Florida | Florida | 2024-03-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-law federal-constitution florida-law state-criminal-law third-party-confession third-party-confessions | Does the manner in which Florida deals with third party confessions violate defendant's rights under the Due Process Clause of the Federal Constitutio… |
| 23-6952 | Frantz Brifil v. Florida | Florida | 2024-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause constitutional-law crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-law hearsay out-of-court-statements sixth-amendment witness-testimony | Whether the state court violated the mandate of Crawford and progeny by introducing a nontestifying witness's out-of-court statements? |
| 23-6802 | Wally Irizarry-Sisco v. United States | First Circuit | 2024-02-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-sex-abuse child-sex-case criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence-law excited-utterance hearsay hearsay-exception sixth-amendment | Whether Federal Rule of Evidence 803(2) encompasses out-of-court statements that go beyond the exciting event, are elicited by questioning, and are in… |
| 23-6763 | Armani L. Moore v. Illinois | Illinois | 2024-02-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure evidence evidence-law memory-loss sixth-amendment testimonial-hearsay unavailable-witness witness-unavailability | Whether a declarant is 'unavailable to testify' for purposes of the Sixth Amendment |
| 23-14 | Delilah Guadalupe Diaz v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-07-05 | Judgment Issued | Amici (3)Relisted (2) | criminal-procedure drug-trafficking evidence evidence-law expert-testimony mens-rea mental-state rule-704(b) rule-704b | In a prosecution for drug trafficking—where an element of the offense is that the defendant knew she was carrying illegal drugs—does Rule 704(b) permi… |
| 22-7317 | Rosa V. v. Ali H. | California | 2023-04-19 | Denied | IFP | child-abuse civil-rights confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-law hearsay-exception medical-records out-of-court-statements sixth-amendment | Whether the trial court erred in excluding evidence of medical records and statements under the hearsay rule |
| 22-6401 | William Clyde Culberson, Jr. v. Texas | Texas | 2022-12-28 | Denied | IFP | 6th-amendment confrontation-clause crawford-vs-washington criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-law medical-records sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence | Is medical records considered as confrontation clause covered under Crawford vs. Washington? |
| 21-8054 | Carlos Johnson v. Dan Reddington, Warden | Missouri | 2022-06-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-rights crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process evidence-law habeas-corpus hearsay probation-revocation | Whether criminal defendants in probation revocation proceedings should be provided a more robust right to confrontation under the due process clause, … |
| 21-7865 | Kra Deangelo Brooks v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-05-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review district-court eighth-circuit evidence-law fourth-amendment independent-source judicial-procedure murray-v-united-states national-importance search-warrant | Whether an appeals court may 'implicitly find' an 'independent source' absent evidence and findings at the district court level |
| 21-6463 | William Martin Cresham v. California | California | 2021-11-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure domestic-violence due-process evidence evidence-law prior-acts propensity propensity-evidence | Whether the admission of prior acts of domestic violence to establish the petitioner's propensity to commit such crimes violated his right to due proc… |
| 21-5798 | Willie Israel Navarette v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-09-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment 6th-amendment criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process evidence evidence-law impeachment suppression-hearing trial-testimony | Whether testimony from a suppression hearing may be used for impeachment purposes if a defendant testifies at trial |
| 21-39 | Benjamin Ramirez Ruiz v. California | California | 2021-07-12 | Denied | Response Waived | child-protective-services confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure evidence-law ongoing-emergency sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence testimonial-statement | Was a statement made to a child protective services investigator testimonial for the purposes of the Sixth Amendment Confrontation Clause |
| 20-7673 | Atticus Sliter-Matias v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-04-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence-law fifth-amendment plain-error self-incrimination | Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's judgment of conviction and sentence by failing to find that the dis… |
| 20-7241 | Rene Gosselin v. Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 2021-02-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-defendant evidence-law fourth-amendment medical-records privacy privacy-rights standing third-party-doctrine | Does a criminal defendant have a Fourth Amendment right of privacy in his medical provider's records, such that the Third Party Doctrine does not appl… |
| 20-7097 | Alree B. Sweat, III v. City of Las Cruces, New Mexico, et al. | New Mexico | 2021-02-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-law fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-suppress post-conviction-relief property-rights search-and-seizure takings | Whether the New Mexico Supreme Court erred in denying petitioner's motion for post-conviction relief based on ineffective assistance of counsel |
| 20-637 | Darrell Hemphill v. New York | New York | 2020-11-10 | Judgment Issued | Amici (14)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure evidence evidence-law hearsay-exception right-to-confrontation testimonial-hearsay trial-strategy | Whether, or under what circumstances, a criminal defendant who opens the door to responsive evidence also forfeits his right to exclude evidence other… |
| 20-6215 | Abrahan Garcia-Morales, aka Abraham Garcia-Morales v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-11-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process evidence-law fifth-amendment right-to-silence self-incrimination | Whether the prosecutor's use of a defendant's 'partial silence' during a custodial interrogation violates the Fifth Amendment |
| 20-5580 | Kyle Phillips v. Florida | Florida | 2020-09-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process due-process-clause evidence-law evidentiary-rules fourteenth-amendment prior-act-evidence sexual-battery | Whether it is a violation of the due process guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment for irrelevant prior-act evidence to be received in a criminal tri… |
| 20-5568 | Alex Alberto Castro v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-09-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure evidence-law exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure suppression-of-evidence wiretap-suppression wiretaps | Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's Order denying the defense motion to suppress wiretaps |
| 20-5254 | Quintin I. Brown v. Virginia | Virginia | 2020-08-04 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence-law felony jury-trial misdemeanor | Did the Commonwealth of Virginia trial court deny Mr. Brown his constitutional right to jury trial on the misdemeanor charges of receiving stolen prop… |
| 20-5002 | Gilberto Ayun-Flores v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-07-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law due-process evidence evidence-law general-intent intent-element mens-rea mental-disease mental-health | Whether a defendant charged with a general intent offense may present evidence of mental disease to challenge the government's proof of the mens rea e… |
| 19-8803 | Bennie Adams v. Ohio | Ohio | 2020-06-24 | Denied | IFP | autopsy-report confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure evidence-law sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence | Is an autopsy report testimonial evidence that demands confrontation under Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36 (2004), and the Sixth Amendment to the … |
| 19-8731 | Edson Gelin v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-06-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | buyer-seller criminal-law criminal-procedure evidence-law fair-trial judicial-discretion jury-instruction jury-instructions theory-of-defense | Whether the defense is entitled to a buyer-seller jury instruction when the instruction is part of the theory of defense and otherwise necessary for a… |
| 19-8318 | William Whiteley v. John Willis, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-04-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | automobile-exception certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure evidence-law exculpatory-evidence eyewitness fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-and-seizure warrantless-search | Whether petitioner is entitled to a certificate of appealability on his claim that the warrantless search of his automobile's glove compartment violat… |
| 19-7957 | Damar D. Ruffin v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-03-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals appellate-review controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence evidence-law jury-instruction jury-trial reversible-error sentencing standard-of-review | Whether the court of appeals committed reversible error in determining the amount of a controlled substance |
| 19-7932 | Enrique Auch v. Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 2020-03-10 | Denied | IFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination evidence-law feigning memory-loss out-of-court-statements sixth-amendment testimonial-statements witness-testimony | Whether the Confrontation Clause permits the prosecution to introduce out-of-court testimonial statements from a witness who is feigning memory loss a… |
| 19-1028 | Alina Korsunska v. Chad Wolf, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security | Ninth Circuit | 2020-02-19 | Denied | Response Waived | credibility employment-discrimination evidence-law intent-and-motivation intent-motivation jury-trial material-dispute retaliation summary-judgment title-vii | Should summary judgment be avoided in employment discrimination and retaliation cases where outcome depends on credibility determination? |
| 19-7209 | Jurother Lee Alston, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-01-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-4th-amendment-exclusionary-rule evidence-law exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery nix-v-williams search-and-seizure | What is the scope of the Inevitable Discovery doctrine originally set out in Nix v. Williams, 467 U.S. 431, 444 (1984)? |
| 19-6587 | Jose Joel Helguera-Del Rio v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-11-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure evidence evidence-law fourth-amendment plain-view-doctrine probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop | Does an officer's seizure of an object only after crouching down, carefully examining it for several seconds, and obtaining another officer's second o… |
| 18-1482 | Semyya Lanise Cunningham v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-05-29 | Denied | circumstantial-guarantees circumstantial-guarantees-of-trustworthiness credibility credibility-of-witnesses district-court district-court-discretion evidence-law evidence-rule-807 federal-rules-of-evidence hearsay-exception hearsay-rule judicial-discretion residual-hearsay-exception rule-807 trustworthiness witness-credibility | Whether a finding of 'circumstantial guarantees of trustworthiness' may be premised on a district court's belief in the truth of the hearsay statement… | |
| 18-9428 | Robert L. Jenkins v. Pelicia E. Hall, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2019-05-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-jurisdiction bullcoming-v-new-mexico civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process evidence-law forensic-evidence judicial-review melendez-diaz-v-massachusetts testimonial-statements | Whether the testimonial statements of witnesses about forensic testing may be admitted only where the declarant is unavailable, and only where the def… |
| 18-9281 | Randy Burke v. Diane Prosper, Acting Warden, et al. | Virgin Islands | 2019-05-15 | Denied | IFP | 6th-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination double-jeopardy due-process evidence evidence-law expert-testimony ineffective-assistance jury-instructions right-to-confrontation trial-counsel | Whether the counsel's failure to cross-examine the main witness Beatrice Lawrence constituted ineffective assistance of counsel |
| 18-7950 | Marquette Walker v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-02-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment constructive-possession criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-law premises-liability search-and-seizure | Does nonexclusive possession of a premises serve to establish constructive possession of items found within the premises? |
| 18-6152 | M. E. D. v. New Jersey | New Jersey | 2018-10-01 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | child-endangerment criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-law fair-trial jury-instruction jury-instructions other-wrongs-evidence second-degree-child-endangerment victim-testimony witness-testimony | Did the trial court violate petitioner's right under the due process clause to a fair trial when the court failed to instruct the jury properly on a k… |
| 18-6076 | Wilton Eugene Sandifer, Sr. v. Florida | Florida | 2018-09-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence-law mandamus standing state-court third-party-guilt trial-rights | Whether the petitioner was denied due process and equal protection under the 14th Amendment by the state court's denial of his petition for a writ of … |
| 18-5747 | Javier Amador-Flores v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-08-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence evidence-law expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence law-enforcement lay-opinion lay-opinion-testimony lay-testimony specialized-knowledge witness-testimony | When a law-enforcement agent expressly compares the events in a case to what is typical in other cases he has investigated, is his opinion based on 's… |
| 18-5646 | Syrus Martin v. Georgia | Georgia | 2018-08-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-hearsay child-testimony cross-examination evidence evidence-admissibility evidence-law hearsay hearsay-evidence hearsay-exceptions prior-statements statutory-interpretation testifying-witness witness-statements | Whether Georgia's child hearsay statutes or O.C.G.A. § 24-8-801 (d) (1) (A) control the permissible use of the prior statements of a testifying child |
| 18-5173 | Wilberth Medina Garcia v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-07-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure deportation due-process evidence-law hearsay immigration immigration-law sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence testimonial-hearsay | Whether an immigration officer's formalized statements relating the fact of an alien's removal constitute testimonial hearsay for the purposes of anal… |