evidence-weighing
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-5651 | Jose Henry Hernandez-Garcia v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-09-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure district-court-discretion evidence-weighing judicial-review motion-for-new-trial trial-standard | Whether a district court abuses its discretion when ruling on a defendant's motion for a new trial by not independently weighing the evidence presente… |
| 24-287 | Jennifer Root Bannon, as the Special Personal Representative of the Estate of Juston Root v. David Godin, Boston Police Officer, et al. | First Circuit | 2024-09-12 | Denied | Relisted (2) | circuit-split credibility-assessment deadly-force evidence-weighing factual-determination summary-judgment | Did the appeals court improperly create new summary judgment standards and establish a circuit split regarding the use of deadly force? |
| 23-529 | Matthew Hayko v. Indiana | Indiana | 2023-11-17 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review credibility criminal-procedure evidence-weighing harmless-error sixth-amendment trial-by-jury witness-credibility | Whether an appellate court can violate a defendant's right to trial by jury under the Sixth Amendment by weighing evidence and judging the credibility… |
| 22-1109 | Irving F. Rounds, Jr. v. Maura T. Healey, Governor of Massachusetts, et al. | Massachusetts | 2023-05-12 | Denied | Response Waived | 14th-amendment 5th-amendment due-process evidence evidence-weighing judicial-recusal public-records recusal | Has Irving Rounds, Jr. been deprived of his due process rights under the 5th and 14th Amendments? |
| 21-1319 | Mark Nordlicht and David Levy v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-04-04 | Denied | Amici (1) | credibility criminal-procedure discretion district-court-discretion evidence-weighing federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure jury-verdict new-trial new-trial-motion rule-33 standard-of-review witness-credibility | Whether district courts have discretion to weigh the evidence, including the credibility of witnesses, when deciding to grant a new trial under Rule 3… |
| 21-475 | Deanna Brookhart, Warden v. Kenneth Smith | Seventh Circuit | 2021-09-28 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2) | 28-usc-2254 appellate-review evidence-sufficiency evidence-weighing federal-habeas habeas-corpus habeas-relief jackson-v-virginia reasonable-doubt standard-of-review state-court-deference | Whether the Seventh Circuit violated 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)'s strictures in awarding habeas relief to respondent based on its own reweighing of the evide… |
| 21-156 | American Contractors Supply, LLC v. HD Supply Construction Supply, Ltd. | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-08-04 | Denied | antitrust antitrust-law civil-procedure evidence-weighing federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure jury-trial material-fact summary-judgment | Does Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 56 permit the court to weigh competing evidence of a material fact from the moving party to grant summary judgmen… | |
| 20-1644 | Devon Archer v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-05-26 | Denied | Amici (1) | appellate-review criminal-procedure evidence-weighing federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure jury-discretion jury-verdict miscarriage-of-justice new-trial new-trial-motion second-circuit | Does Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 33(a) afford district courts discretion to reweigh the evidence when evaluating a new trial motion |
| 20-7986 | Kevin Dunbar v. Arizona | Arizona | 2021-05-11 | Denied | IFP | attempted-first-degree-murder consecutive-sentences constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence-weighing kidnapping self-representation supreme-court-precedent | Whether the petitioner's aggravated sentences were in violation of due process and conflict with the United States Supreme Court holdings in Apprendi … |
| 19-5452 | Pablo Enrique Rosado-Sanchez v. Banco Santander Puerto Rico | First Circuit | 2019-08-06 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence-weighing fair-credit-reporting-act judicial-misconduct pro-se pro-se-plaintiff standing | Whether the district court erred in granting summary judgment without weighing the evidence, disregarding interrogatories and evidence, and committing… |
| 18-9410 | Morris Sanders v. Walmart Stores East, L.P. | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-05-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof civil-rights credibility-determination employment-discrimination evidence-weighing jury-trial retaliation summary-judgment title-vii workplace-discrimination | Where the federal courts below decided for themselves every triable fact issue crucial to petitioner's workplace discrimination and retaliation claims… |