evidence-rules

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-573 Donald J. Trump, President of the United States v. E. Jean Carroll Second Circuit 2025-11-13 Pending Amici (5) evidence-rules propensity-evidence rule-403 rule-404b rule-413 rule-415 I. Whether Federal Rule of Evidence 415 overrides Rule 403's requirement to balance the probative value of temporally remote propensity evidence again…
25-5249 Barry Gordon Croft, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-07-31 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-right entrapment-defense evidence-rules fifth-amendment harmless-error sixth-amendment Did the district court deny Petitioner's constitutional right to present a defense by arbitrarily removing Evidence Rule 801(d)(2)(D) from the availab…
24-7018 Roderick King v. United States Third Circuit 2025-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence-rules rule-16 sixth-amendment trial-rights Whether the government violated petitioner's due process rights through multiple procedural irregularities in a criminal investigation and trial
24A489 Bernice Rutland v. Regions Bank, as Trustee for the William Hunter Rutland Family Trust Mississippi 2024-11-15 Presumed Complete divorce-decree evidence-rules judicial-notice property-settlement summary-judgment trust-interpretation Whether a trial court may improperly use judicial notice and unadjudicated attorney correspondence to modify a prior unappealable divorce decree and p…
24-5256 Michael Darren Boydston v. Texas Texas 2024-08-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-provisions court-procedure evidence-rules judicial-review legal-jurisdiction statutory-provisions Question not identified.
23-1043 Amir Anariba v. California California 2024-03-21 Denied Response Waived arbitrary-rules compulsory-process criminal-defense due-process evidence-rules holmes-v-south-carolina right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment subpoena-duces-tecum united-states-v-nixon May a state court assume the truth of the prosecution's evidence in deciding whether the accused has established a 'plausible justification' in suppor…
23-6685 Willie Perry Woods v. Heather Ray, Warden Fourth Circuit 2024-02-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-rights consent-decree constitutional-rights due-process evidence-rules federal-agency state-law statute-of-limitations Should certiorari be granted if the 4th USCA judgment conflicts with the USSG on whether state Statute Of Limitations (SOL) bars Fed agency adverse or…
23-640 Caleb A. C. Smith v. United States Armed Forces 2023-12-14 Denied Response Waived 10th-circuit declarant-memory evidence-rule evidence-rules excited-utterance hearsay-exception memory military-rules-of-evidence statement-admissibility testimonial-evidence unpublished-decision Whether a statement made hours after an alleged assault is admissible as an excited utterance?
23-5983 Eric Spencer v. United States Second Circuit 2023-11-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review court-procedure de-novo-review district-court evidence evidence-rules hearsay hearsay-evidence judicial-discretion standard-of-review Should the Court of Appeals apply an abuse of discretion standard or engage in de novo review when reviewing a district court's ruling to admit hearsa…
22-6999 Allen Maki v. Texas Texas 2023-03-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence-rules judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction motion-in-limine second-amendment statutory-interpretation texas-criminal-law Whether there is a conflict between Tex Criminal Code Art. 44.17 And Tex Gov. Code Sec. 30.00015 (a)
22-6820 Sergio Moises Ochoa v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2023-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review compel-witnesses constitutional-interpretation due-process enumerated-rights evidence-rules fundamental-rights judicial-discretion present-defense rules-of-evidence May courts continue to treat fundamental and enumerated rights as mere guidelines to be discarded when inconvenient?
22-769 Weixing V. Wang v. Brandywyne Common Condominium New Hampshire 2023-02-16 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process evidence-rules federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-misconduct standing summary-judgment Solely-with-lies-and-fabricated-numbers-on-paper-without-evidence-how-can-petitioner-be-ordered-to-pay
22-6535 Murphy Alex Begay v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment audio-recording civil-procedure constitutional district-court due-process evidence-rules federal-rules-of-evidence rule-106 rule-of-completeness Did the District court violate the Petitioners 14th Amendment right of the Due Process Clause, by denying the introduction of the complete audio recor…
22-5054 Tyrik Upchurch v. United States Third Circuit 2022-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review due-process evidence-rules expert-testimony expert-witness-testimony judicial-procedure judicial-proceedings lay-witness-testimony new-trial standard-of-review third-circuit trial-error Did the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit err in failing to award the Petitioner a new trial due to the District Court's error in allowing the go…
22-5055 Amin Wadley, aka Jamil Abdul Amin White v. United States Third Circuit 2022-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-trial-procedure evidence-rules evidentiary-standards federal-rules-of-evidence law-enforcement law-enforcement-testimony lay-witness lay-witness-testimony opinion-evidence opinion-testimony Whether this Court should set limits on what law enforcement testimony should be admitted as opinion evidence under Federal Rule of Evidence 701
21-1320 Robert Campo, et al. v. Department of Justice, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-04-04 Denied Response Waived constitutional-precedent court-interpretation evidence-rules federal-rules-of-evidence federal-rules-of-procedure freedom-of-information-act judicial-discretion judicial-review procedural-rules supreme-court-precedent u.s-constitution Whether federal judges are free to flout and violate FOIA, federal rules, the Constitution, and Supreme Court precedent in FOIA adjudications
21-7440 Norman Alan Kerr v. Christopher Gomez, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-03-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure document-suppression due-process evidence-rules government-misconduct judicial-discretion plea-bargaining sentencing trial-procedure Whether the stipulation waives all the elements of the offense, and whether the court can legally hold such a stipulation as valid
21-7380 Frank Henderson Brown v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-03-15 Denied IFP appeal civil-rights closing-arguments due-process evidence-rules ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct standing trial-court-error Whether the trial court erred in allowing the prosecutor to argue facts not in evidence during closing arguments
21-6340 Troy Wayne Harmon v. Texas Texas 2021-11-19 Denied IFP constitutional-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure evidence evidence-rules fourteenth-amendment inconsistent-opinion informant-privilege material-witness sixth-amendment Whether the trial court's refusal to allow the petitioner to call a material witness violated the petitioner's Sixth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendmen…
20-6761 Wayne Wells, Jr. v. Terrie Wallace, Warden Fourth Circuit 2021-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP age-of-consent civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence-rules sentencing statutory-interpretation trial-procedure witness-testimony Does the statute SC Code Ann. 8 10-3655 (8)(2) have unconstitutional requirements?
20-5328 Jeffrey Paul Giblin v. Washington Washington 2020-08-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence-rules eyewitness-testimony intent intent-standard lay-opinion-testimony Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's due process and equal protection guarantees were satisfied for a defendant accused of a crime involving intent, whe…
20-5115 Gerson Serrano-Ramirez v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-07-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process evidence evidence-rules federal-procedure gang-affiliation jury-instructions motion-to-sever sufficiency-of-evidence venue Whether the district court erred in its rulings that prevented the defendant from receiving a fair trial
19-8373 Frank Silva Roque v. Arizona Arizona 2020-04-29 Denied IFP appeals appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-rules federal-law habeas-corpus standing Did the Arizona court err in upholding the state court's ruling contrary to federal law on a reasonable appeal of federal claims?
19-1236 Rachel Joanna Evens v. Timothy John Evens South Dakota 2020-04-20 Denied Response Waived terminating visitation without any consideration child-custody civil-procedure due-process evidence evidence-rules hearsay judicial-authority parental-rights parenting-coordinator sanctions What constitutes 'Due Process of Law? Can binding orders be implemented
19-6956 Thomas H. Outland v. New Jersey New Jersey 2019-12-16 Denied IFP confrontation-clause credibility criminal-defendant criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-impeachment due-process evidence evidence-rules fair-trial impeachment jury-instructions prior-convictions right-to-present-a-defense Did the New Jersey state court endorse the use of N.J.R.E. 806 to impeach non-testifying criminal defendants with their prior convictions
19-6000 Kevin Kelley v. Illinois Illinois 2019-09-20 Denied IFP compulsory-process constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-rules propensity-evidence sixth-amendment trial-court-error witness-testimony Whether the state trial court erred in admitting the testimony of two witnesses for the purpose of showing the defendant's propensity to commit the ch…
18-9600 Patricia Diane Smith Sledge v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process evidence-rules evidentiary-ruling federal-rules-of-evidence procedural-error sufficiency-of-evidence summary-evidence witness-tampering Did the district court prejudicially err when admitting Exhibit 1 as a summary pursuant to Fed Rules of Evidence, rule 1006?
18-9126 Alan L. Doering v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-05-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure-standing-due-process-medical-trea 8th-amendment administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-rules medical-records medical-treatment prison-conditions security-concerns standing Whether the denial of the petitioner's request for medical treatment violates his constitutional rights
18-5653 Pamela Lynn Bravebull v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP cross-examination due-process evidence-rules expert-witness fair-trial federal-rules-of-evidence fifth-amendment sixth-amendment structural-error venireperson Whether the prosecutor's elicitation of evidence through a colloquy with a venireperson violated the defendant's Sixth Amendment right to cross-examin…
18-5605 Robert S. Beyer, II v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-08-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP admissibility appellate-procedure bad-character-evidence character-evidence criminal-procedure de-novo-review due-process evidence-rules federal-rules-of-evidence presumption-of-admissibility rule-403 rule-404 sentencing-guidelines victim-vulnerability Do Fed R. Evid. Rules 403 and 404 create a presumption favoring admissibility of bad character evidence?